Engineering Project Manager

• Hybrid and Site-based, part of the Strategic Group CAPEX Function
• Job Type: Permanent, multi-site scope, some travel
• Job Role: Project Engineering Manager
• Site-based, part of the Strategic Group CAPEX & Transformation Function
• Job Type: Permanent
• Location: Buckinghamshire area, commutable from Northants, South Midlands, Oxfordshire, etc
• Client: Category market leader in FMCG Manufacturing with factories all over the Globe
• Central Strategic Projects function

You will help deliver CAPEX AND Asset improvement projects on an investment programme - Multi-million CAPEX across multiple sites in the local area.

Our client is a renowned category leader in FMCG Manufacturing, committed to Manufacturing Excellence. Working through both innovation and investment, their product range is second to none! Business potential is excellent, with extensive capital investment, creating the need for a Project Engineering Manager.

• Responsible for managing the planning and implementation of capital and revenue projects, ensuring they are delivered on time and to budget!
• You will cover supplier selection, financial control and customer acceptance. You will own factory equipment and structures, including packaging, processing and utilities
• Reporting directly to the Head of UK Engineering, you will have complete autonomy to deliver pragmatic, value-engineered projects to cost and time specifications
• You will coach, mentor and develop your multi-functional teams of engineers and designers/contractors to ensure the successful delivery of projects
• To procure equipment through internal and external resourcing functions
• The projects will cover factory equipment, including packaging, processing and site activities.
• You will lead engineering and production teams during equipment installation and start-up, supplier selection, feasibility and justification analysis, equipment commissioning and validation and FAT

Qualifications and Requirements – Project Engineering Manager - Engineering

• Graduate calibre within an Engineering discipline (Mechanical or Chemical)
• Previous experience within an engineering Project Management role
• Experience with CAPEX investments, manufacturing, time-sensitive and fast-paced, ideally FMCG, ideally good and beverage, food for now, food to go.
• The ideal candidate will be a methodical and detailed worker, extremely achievement-oriented and career-focused and able to work in a direct and often pressurised environment.

What we can offer – Engineering Project Manager - Engineering

• Significant CAPEX and a huge variety of projects to work on
• Global progression opportunities
• Company discount
• pension
• Bonus
• Exposure to a global family of employees
• Ongoing challenge, training and development

You will join a thriving, growing and secure manufacturing business with good pension, bonus, life assurance, with ongoing career development and progression opportunities.

For more information on this role, please contact Mike Butler on or

Candidates who are currently an Engineering Project Manager, Engineering Manager, Senior Project Engineer, Senior Projects Engineer, Group Engineer, CAPEX Manager, Projects Manager and any equivalent background will be suitable for the role.