Group Project Engineer Automation

LOTUS BAKERIES BELGIE; Lembeke; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

LOTUS BAKERIES BELGIE seeks a Project Engineer Automation to join the Group Engineering Department. You study, execute and lead automation projects for the plants, covering scope, concept and budget, tendering, detailed engineering, commissioning and aftercare.

The role also handles CAPEX and revamping projects for the Biscoff plants in Lembeke, Mebane and Chonburi, and the Natural Foods Plant in Wolseley, with a focus on developing team expertise and applying formal project management processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead automation engineering projects across the plant lifecycle in coordination with local technical/operational teams.

Job description

As Project Engineer Automation, you are part of our Group Engineering Department. This team focuses on implementing the automation strategy of CAPEX projects in the Global Biscoff and Natural Foods Plants.

About the job:

• You study, execute and/or lead various automation engineering projects for the Plants in coordination with the local technical and/or operational teams. This includes the complete project lifecycle, starting from scope and objective definition, concept and budget preparation, tendering until detailed engineering, commissioning and aftercare.
• You work on CAPEX project as well as revamping projects for our 3 Biscoff Plants in Lembeke, Mebane (US) and Chonburi (Thailand) and our Natural Food Plant in Wolseley (South-Africa).
• You develop and retain a strong expertise within the team in order to act as a reliable sparring partner for external topic experts and to supply support to the plant.
• Through your expertise, you also develop and maintain working procedures to reliably manage the automation systems, while using formal project management processess in all phases of the project.
• In this role, we also count on you to keep up to date with new developments in technology related to the bakery sector and packaging machines, documenting and sharing your knowledge about new technologies and evolutions within the team and technical departments of the plants.