Senior Project Engineer in Girvan - William Grant & Sons

Job Description William Grant & Sons is a fifth-generation family distiller, established in 1887. We are proud of the premium brands that the business has nurtured over the 135 years, not only in Scotch Whisky, but Gin, Irish Whiskey, Gin, Tequila, Vodka and Bourbon. Our business prides itself on production of high quality, innovative spirits at its distilling sites in Scotland, Ireland, the U.S. and Mexico. Over a number of decades, the business has developed its internal capabilities to produce efficient and innovative spirits.

Today, we continue to invest heavily in our internal capabilities for engineering and technical competencies. In the past ten years, our distilleries engineering team have constructed new distilleries at a greenfield site in Tullamore, Ireland, significantly expanded their flagship Glenfiddich distillery, built a completely new gin distillery for Hendrick’s gin, purchased and begun the expansion of their Tequila distillery in Jalisco, Mexico and continued to progressively expand their grain distillery in Girvan, Scotland to the largest whisky distilling site in Europe. Our ambitions continue to grow our business organically and to transform our operations to carbon zero facilities. Technology developments will deliver significant benefits in quality and productivity and will be a key theme of future engineering priorities.

Due to our ambitious growth plans, we have a rare and exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Engineer (chemical / mechanical bias) at our Girvan distilling site.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITY
To design, develop and/or deliver Capital & Special Revenue projects to increase site capabilities and improve process efficiencies within WG&S Operations Business Unit.
Manage multi-discipline engineering development and/or delivery of project activities across the Girvan site that are not covered in the normal scope of the maintenance teams and through pre-planned maintenance activities.
Development of comprehensive Engineering expertise, utilising this to address current plant issues, replacement requirements, capacity increases, productivity increases, health & safety, and environmental improvement initiatives.
Implement initiatives that create an optimal and sustainable future plant/infrastructure setup and deliver value adding engineering practices.
Identify and quantify development plans into Site Master plans and relevant budgets with the appropriate justification.
Provide and manage detailed information that supports the post-project capital reviews, identifying opportunities to develop future project delivery performance.
Provide and manage reporting on relevant performance metrics (e.g., Capital Spend; Milestone Adherence; Additional Spend Requests) taking appropriate actions when necessary.
Implement the process framework and develop detailed process documentation with the appropriate governance structure according to the WGW.
Develop and coordinate engineering standards and execute day-to-day engineering in bottling / distilling facilities to ensure continuous operations and minimise downtime.
Monitor and evaluate buildings and energy / utility infrastructure assets to ensure they are kept in good working order to maximise efficiencies, minimise wastage and eliminate risk of outages/ blockages.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE
Experience within a similar Senior Project Engineering role, running significant scale CAPEX projects, in a manufacturing/FMCG environment.
Degree level qualified or with equivalent, lengthy project management experience
Particular expertise in Process Engineering (Chemical or Mechanical)
Experience in using project management methodologies
Knowledge of current health & safety/environmental compliance
Experience in use of Continuous Improvement techniques and analysis
Excellent communication & presentation skills.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
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