Engineering Project Manager

Lantmannen Agro; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Lantmannen Agro is seeking a Project Manager to lead engineering projects across Milton Keynes and Bedford. You will coordinate several concurrent initiatives, ensuring adherence to company standards while maintaining safety and quality on site.

Key responsibilities include tendering suppliers, drafting capex proposals, and reporting progress to group functions and UK leadership. The role blends office planning with practical site activity in a manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering multiple complex projects in a manufacturing setting.
• Ability to coordinate with Site Operations, Technical, Commercial & NPD teams.
• Familiarity with contractor management and on-site safety and CDM-2015 is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Manage several concurrent projects across Milton Keynes and Bedford sites in line with company standards.
• Appoint suppliers through tender processes and agree contract terms.
• Collaborate with operations, technical, commercial and NPD teams to define equipment and plant design criteria.
• Oversee pre-studies, design reviews and capex proposals for major projects.
• Maintain stakeholder communications and report progress to UK leadership.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Contract tendering

Cross-functional collaboration

Numeracy

Job description

We have an exciting vacancy in our Milton Keynes bakery for an excellent Project Manager to manage the delivery of Engineering Projects across the UK sites in Milton Keynes & Bedford, with accountability for assigned environmental, H&S and performance standards.

You will be great at:

• Managing several concurrent projects across both sites in line with company standards and processes
• Appointing suppliers through tender processes, agreeing contract terms and conditions
• Working with Site Operations, Technical, Commercial & NPD departments to ascertain design criteria of new equipment & plant
• Completing pre-studies and engineering design reviews for strategic major projects. Draft capex proposals for approval
• Maintain stakeholder communication, reporting on project progress to group functions and UK leadership team
• Ensure project activities are carried out to specification and safely, overseeing contractor works on site
• Manage all aspects of project works - including Buildings, Electrical, Mechanical and Process
• Manage changes and updates to site CAD layouts
• Document progress of on-site installations, maintaining pictorial records & site diaries

You are:

• Self-motivated, flexible, with a keen sense of urgency and a desire to achieve results
• Someone who enjoys a mix of office & site-based work - getting stuck in when it's needed
• A stickler for detail and good numeracy skills
• Able to uphold and demonstrate your own personal standards and that of the company throughout all your work
• Where this is not being achieved, able to confront the issue and resolve appropriately
• Able to communicate at all levels across the business

You have:

• Experience of managing multiple complex projects within a manufacturing environment, ideally within the food industry.
• Managing contractors & works as part of a larger installation within a production environment.
• Experience of a wide range of projects from new equipment installation, M&E services, utilities and building construction.
• Working knowledge of CDM-2015 regulations