Sr Engineer - Project & Engineering

AP Management Consultants; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,100,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Job summary

AP Management Consultants seeks a seasoned professional to lead packaging projects from planning through delivery, coordinating internal and external teams and liaising with equipment vendors. You will prepare URS, manage technical bids, and ensure safety, energy efficiency and IoT features in selected equipment.

The role involves cross-functional execution, risk management, and budget control across sites in India, with travel as needed to factories for project milestones.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams across packaging projects.
• Ability to prepare URS, evaluate vendor bids and drive technical-to-commercial approvals.
• Strong focus on safety standards, energy efficiency and zero-rejection goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead internal and external teams for end-to-end packaging projects.
• Coordinate with vendors from planning to operationalization and support.
• Prepare capex budgets, URS, and vendor QA through FAT and commissioning.
• Ensure safety, energy efficiency and IoT features in selected equipment.
• Monitor project progress, manage risks, and control costs against budget.

Skills

Project management

Vendor liaison

Capex planning

URS preparation

Technical bid coordination

Safety compliance

IoT / Industry 4.0

Risk management

Budget control

Site installation coordination

Travel readiness

Job description

Role & responsibilities

To lead Internal and External Team in selection, Procurement & Delivery of end to end projects along with vendor liaison on equipment, right from planning / capex preparation stage to operationalization and support with stabilization

Preferred candidate profile

• Identify high risk equipment / task in the project.
• After getting NPD project brief identifying / selection of suitable packaging technology
• Preparing end to end capex for all kind of packaging equipment in projects
• Preparing packaging layout and aligning with operation safety, operation excellence teams.
• Preparing project network for packaging equipment and closely monitoring the progress and updating the network regularly with status.
• Close monitoring of capex spent vrs budgeted for all equipment/ tasks
• Preparing URS and floating the enquiry for all packaging equipment.
• Completing Technical bid and coordinating with procurement team for commercial bid and closure of commercial discussion
• Approving equipment drawings and monitoring the equipment progress at supplier work with regular online/F2F meetings and communications.
• Attending FAT along with operation, quality operation excellence team
• Ensure machines /equipment are meeting min machine safety stds.
• Ensure selected equipment are energy efficient, reliable with better output and min rejections.
• Ensure IOT /Digital features are enabled in selected equipment.
• Participate in execution to provide safety technical input for capital projects and ensure 100% compliance with the best safety standards.
• Follow up statutory approvals for the project with operation..
• Finalize civil, mechanical, electrical, and piping consultants / contractors for execution, including sizing and selection of utilities like chillers, boilers, compressors, ETP, transformers.
• Prepare a project scoping document and create/finalize standards/specifications for various activities.
• Focus on meticulous planning with detailed tasks, timeline, dependency, etc. using software tools.
• Ensure that vendor/contractors and other service providers sign the NDA, provide the ABG, PBG etc as per the PO/contract terms
• Ensure safely, timely execution of the project within the approved budget and up to customer satisfaction.
• Ensure site safety conditions during project execution in line with the agreed safety standards.
• Periodically review with various contractors to monitor the progress completion of all actions on time.
• Verify invoices and bills raised by the contractors/service providers and ensure timely payments in coordination with the finance team as per the PO terms/URS
• Travel to factories at different parts of India on a task/need basis to meet the objectives of end-to-end responsibility.
• Manage critical situations in the project and remove constraints through possibility thinking.
• Conduct financial modeling and manage financial aspects, mainly related to the project like calculating ROI, Payback, Cost-Benefit analysis, etc.
• Take necessary steps to ensure process safety at the site and execution plan to mitigate process safety risks.
• Ensure the implementation of the latest technologies in the industry with suitably applicable IoT, Industry 4.0, and digitization.
• Finalize Technically Qualified User Required Specification (URS), Evaluate qualifying criteria for URS, and close observations with suppliers.
• Establish project teams, coordinate activities of multiple disciplines, and ensure the efficient, cost-effective utilization of staff.
• Coordinate with other team members (Operations, Quality, Projects) and ensure site readiness & facilitate installation of bulk mfg, utilities, filling, packing equipment at the site.
• Identify risk areas at an early stage and work to mitigate them
• Develop and implement a risk management plan to identify, assess, and mitigate potential risks throughout the project lifecycle.