Role Description
As a project engineer you will play a part in implementing key changes within our business. This may be to increase equipment efficiencies, introduce a new product or build a completely new factory. There are endless possibilities to develop your project management skills and solve complex engineering problems. As part of a project engineering team you will be given real responsibility to design and specify systems that will help take our business forward. You be able to follow the project process from the initial development stages right through to installation and commissioning. Your project could range from a single piece of equipment within an existing plant or an entirely new production system within a new factory.
You will need to develop key relationships with supply chain colleagues to understand the needs of the business and then work with suppliers to develop a solution that ensures we have the right capabilities for tomorrow. Your solutions will have to not only cater for the products we make but work well with our people and maintenance systems.
In addition to designing and overseeing the implementation of these systems, project engineers also have the responsibility of communicating their solutions to the business and building the business case to secure the capital for their schemes. This will ensure that you get a very broad exposure to the wider business whilst having a key influence over our engineering solutions.
Profile: Project Engineer – Peter Hall
"My second role on the scheme took me from Wales, where I was a Process Engineer to sunny Devon into the role of Projects Manager at Ernest Jackson, manufacturer of licensed and medicated confectionery. I wanted to get a breadth of experience during the graduate scheme and moving roles from our cocoa processing factory to our pharmaceutical subsidiary definitely started me off on the right foot.
"The accountabilities of the role included the development, delivery and financial control of capital projects. Managing a broad project portfolio provided a challenging test of project and stakeholder management skills.
"The diverse range of projects included environmental, health and safety projects, as well equipment upgrades and site development. Two significant structural projects involved the design and construction of a microbiological laboratory and the refit of one floor of the factory into a new pharmaceutical standard change facility.
"Managing such projects has provided the opportunity to work with, and learn from a number of external specialists and senior internal stakeholders. I’ve been able to see the full project management process from initial concept through to completion and have delivered key projects which have immediate impact on the site.
"What next then? The next placement involved managing a team of 50 in Sheffield making key brands such as Maynard’s Wine Gums and Jelly Babies. You can’t say you don’t get variety in Cadbury!"