Senior Project Engineer

Senior Project Engineer - Operational Technology (OT) & Digital Supply Chain – Scotland

Day rate: £500 - £650 (inside IR35)

Duration: 12 months

Start: ASAP

My client is looking for a Senior Project Engineer with FMCG manufacturing experience to join initially on a contract basis. To provide delivery support to all their manufacturing site. This role more specifically will support their Digital Supply Chain initiative driving specific workstreams for Operational technology infrastructure improvements.

Baseline project engineering requirements:

• Development of requirement specifications in collaboration with other internal teams such as Operations.
• Use of specialist knowledge to deliver capex projects to correct technical specification.
• Development of cost estimates and project schedules.
• Managing efficient spend for capex projects.
• Co-ordinating and managing external resources.
• Management of the project lifecycle including capital approval, maintaining accurate financial data including spend and forecast and project closure.
• Manage and overseeing commissioning activities.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant health, safety and environmental standards.
• Exceptional Stakeholder management skills with ability to communicate effectively and proactively with cross functional teams and internal customers regarding plans, products, issues, timelines and solution value.
• Programme management experience within large FMCG organisation(s) (preferred)

Specialist Skills

• Manufacturing Executions Systems delivery knowledge & experience demonstrating extensive experience with IT/OT integration.
• Packaging Machinery, Line Management & Control Systems delivery knowledge & experience
• Server Hardware, Virtualisation & Industrial Networking Technologies project delivery knowledge & experience.
• Manufacturing cybersecurity risk management experience
• Continuous Process Control systems project delivery experience.
• Proficiency reviewing solution designs using logical and physical diagrams.

Education

• Degree qualified in science/engineering discipline
• Recognised Project Management competence certification