GSC Engineering Projects Manager

GSC Engineering Projects Manager

Role Purpose To lead the delivery of the engineering project portfolio across the GSC manufacturing network, ensuring engineering improvement initiatives, product introductions, product transfers and strategic manufacturing programmes are delivered safely, on time, within budget and in alignment with business objectives.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of engineering projects across the manufacturing network, partnering with site engineering teams to align priorities, capacity and resources
• Identify, prioritise and implement projects that support business growth, including product transfers, rationalisation and cost optimisation (VAVE)
• Own portfolio governance, resource planning and consistent ways of working across the engineering portfolio
• Hold design authority, ensuring all engineering solutions meet required quality, compliance and regulatory standards
• Work cross-functionally with stakeholders to align priorities, resources and delivery plans
• Support the development of engineering capability and knowledge sharing across the network
• Develop and manage tacit knowledge transfer within engineering processes and projects

Requirements

• Proven experience managing engineering projects in a global manufacturing environment
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies (Stage Gate, Agile or similar)
• Experience with product transfer, NPI and cost optimisation programmes
• Substantial experience performing design authority responsibilities (Machining, Casting, Pressing, Forging)
• Solid understanding of quality systems, engineering change processes and compliance requirements
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership skills
• Steam systems, products and applications understanding
• Minimum HND in an engineering related discipline (or equivalent)

Preferred

• MSc in business management or engineering discipline (or equivalent)
• Experience recruiting and developing engineering talent
• Proficient in MS, PLM, PDM and ERP applications
• Experience of product design (ASME & EN Design Codes) and model/drawing (ISO GPS and ASME Y14.5)

The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments.