Process Engineer

Vanderlande Industries GmbH; Daventry; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in automated systems seeks a Process Engineer for their Daventry team. You'll drive process optimizations and support client operations through data analysis and continuous improvement, collaborating closely with your team and stakeholders. This role offers significant career progression opportunities and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

28 days of annual leave

Bupa Medical Cover

YuLife Wellbeing membership

Career progression opportunities

Cycle to work scheme

Pension with Aviva

Access to Achievers recognition platform

Qualifications

• Background in continuous improvement and process engineering.
• Experience working directly with operations teams.
• Proficiency in stakeholder management and data analytics.

Responsibilities

• Execute process optimizations for automated logistics solutions.
• Advise on total process improvements, including root-cause analysis.
• Support implementation and build networks within the service team.

Skills

Continuous improvement

Process engineering

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Analytical skills

CI/Lean tools

Job description

Location: Daventry (Northampton)

Contract Type: (Permanent)

Introduction to role

The Vanderlande Service Team is responsible for maintenance and optimization of an automated warehouse solution. You will be working in a maintenance team and will be located at Sainsbury’s, Daventry distribution center.

Role Responsibilities

As a Process Engineer you are able to act on operational, tactical and strategic level, and you know how to present the benefits of a specific solution in a convincing and constructive way. You have an entrepreneurial approach in which you are responsible to take the initiative and make decisions. You have excellent communication skills, and you excel at building good relationships with our teams and customers

Your responsibilities and activities will include:

• Executing process optimizations related to our (automated) logistics solutions in use by our customers
• Understand various forms of data analysis; translate it into process improvements.
• Advise and make improvement proposals for the total process in both system, technical and operational terms. This includes root-cause finding for complex system errors as well as performance improvement studies and continuous improvement services
• Actively identify and generate solutions for system barriers through your time spent on the floor; translate these into customer business cases
• Support with the implementation of the improvements. While doing, you will build a strong network within the service team as well as with the client
• Improve tools and methods to better our data capture and performance analysis

Role Qualification and Skills

• A background in continuous improvement and process engineering, with a proven track record of successfully implementing process enhancements.
• Previous experience working directly with operations teams
• Demonstrated proficiency in stakeholder management, effectively communicating with cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals.
• Excellent analytical skills, coupled with a genuine interest in databases and data analytics tooling.
• Familiarity with CI/Lean tools is essential, with preference given to candidates with Lean Six Sigma experience.

What we offer

• 28 days of annual leave (excluding public holidays)
• Bupa Medical Cover
• YuLife – Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers
• A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression.
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension with Aviva
• Access to Achievers an award-winning recognition platform that inspires to recognise your coworkers Where points are awarded that can be exchanged for a range of goods and discounts.

Diversity & Inclusion

Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualifies applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age marital status or disability status. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, we are always happy to discuss or explore, any reasonable adjustments can be made to support your application.