Process Improvement Engineer

ATA Recruitment; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Process Improvement Engineer in Leicester, offering a salary of £55,000 and up to an 18% bonus. This role involves travel across England and includes responsibilities such as managing large-scale projects, resolving plant issues, and improving operational processes. The company emphasizes employee engagement, providing extensive career progression opportunities. Benefits include generous holidays, a company car, and Bupa healthcare options.

Benefits

27 + 8 days bank holiday

Company car

Bupa healthcare

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar engineering role focusing on process improvement.
• Strong technical knowledge in electrical systems and automation.
• Proven history of driving reliability and eliminating faults.

Responsibilities

• Travel to sites across England, supporting senior leadership.
• Lead large scale projects, ensuring on-time, within budget delivery.
• Identify and resolve recurring plant issues through engineering improvements.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Process automation

Electrical projects management

Problem-solving abilities

Job description

Process Improvement Engineer (Electrical) £55,000, days only, up to 18% bonus.

Package includes: 27 + 8 days bank holiday, Company car, fuel card, paid expenses, double matched pension up to 10% pension, Option to purchase shares, Opt in Bupa healthcare.

Travel - This role incldues travel across England, with the majority of the sities being in the Midlands.

About the company

ATA are supporting a multisite manufacturing group who are looking to add process improvement engineers to their central engineering function.

The group who has a 35% foothold within their market are a giant within the industry and have been going form strength to strength since their inception in the 60s, now turning over north of £300 million. The company employ over 2000 staff across the country and boast a portfolio of manufactured goods second to none. These goods are some of UKs most recognisable brands of which have become a staple part of the British construction market.

The central engineering function plays a critical role in providing ‘hands on’ technical support and expertise whilst driving plant operational improvement to each of the groups 15 sites.

About the role

This process improvement engineer vacancy will offer a varied and challenging working environment. You’ll be given the responsibility and empowerment to stretch your problem-solving abilities, satisfying the natural curiosity that being an engineer brings.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• This role includes travel across England to each of the group’s sites.
• Support senior leadership team with large scale projects such as brand-new site integration
• Lead projects from cradle to grave of a value up to 500k, delivering on time and within a controlled budget.
• Identifying and eliminating recurring plant issues through engineering improvements.
• Deliver improved plant reliability through various maintenance techniques.
• Working within a team to standardise process and machinery across all sites.
• Becoming the subject matter expert for onsite maintenance.
• Utilising advanced fault-finding tools such as thermographic surveys, vibration analysis, and non-destructive inspections.
• Development of factory intelligence and other process automation.

About you

To be considered for this process improvement engineer role you should have exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust, gather consensus, influence and work with people at all levels.

• You should have previous experience working within a similar capacity – Process improvement engineer, reliability engineer, continuous improvement engineer, or project engineer (Maintenance bias).
• Technically, you should be strong electrically, with experience in process automation control systems
• Proven track record of making improvements, driving reliability and eliminating recurring faults.
• Proactive mindset, able to take accountability for tasks and projects.
• Experience with the management of electrical projects from cradle to grave.

Why join?

Joining our customer as a process improvement engineer, you will be joining a company who have fantastic employee engagement with many of their staff being with the business a long time. The group offer real career progression into senior roles, if not at this site, you will have the option to move throughout the group.

You will also be joining a group who have ambitious plans to keep growing in a market they already excel in. Since 2023, they have invested over £150m across their plants, which include a brand-new site the largest of its type in Europe.

If you feel like you are the right Process Improvement Engineer for this role and would like to hear more about, please press apply, call Ashton on 07814905283 or email your CV to [e-mail]

ATA Recruitment specialises in Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Civil, Transportation and general Engineering recruitment on both a permanent and contract basis – for more opportunities like this one, visit our website

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