William Grant & Sons
Project Engineer
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Job Introduction
Are you a driven Project Engineer with a process or chemical background looking to make a real impact? In this role, you’ll play a key role in delivering capital and special revenue projects that enhance site capability, improve efficiency, and support sustainable growth.
The Role
As a Project Engineer, you will support and deliver a diverse portfolio of engineering projects across multiple sites. You’ll work on initiatives that go beyond routine maintenance—focusing on plant improvements, efficiency optimisation, and long-term infrastructure development.
This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of projects from concept through to completion while collaborating with cross-functional teams and driving best-in-class engineering practices.
Main Responsibility
Key Responsibilities
- Support and deliver engineering projects across all OBU sites, outside routine maintenance scope
- Contribute to solutions addressing plant performance, health & safety, and environmental challenges
- Develop and support initiatives that optimise and future-proof site infrastructure
- Provide input into Site Master Plans, 5-year strategies, and capital budgets
- Support project prioritisation and lead allocated engineering development projects
Project Delivery & Management
- Define project concepts and develop technically robust solutions
- Conduct financial analysis and prepare strong CAPEX justifications
- Identify and manage suppliers, tender processes, and contract negotiations
- Deliver projects on time, within budget, and to agreed quality standards
- Ensure full compliance with health, safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements
- Lead handover to operational teams with clear documentation and training
Performance & Continuous Improvement
- Produce clear technical reports with data-driven recommendations
- Monitor and report on key metrics (capital spend, milestones, variations)
- Contribute to engineering standards and continuous improvement initiatives
- Support operational engineering activities to minimise downtime and maximise efficiency
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Additional Responsibilities
- Ensure plant, utilities, and infrastructure assets are maintained to high standards
Our Ideal Candidate
What We’re Looking For
- Degree-qualified (or equivalent) in Chemical, Process, or related Engineering discipline
- Proven experience in project engineering within a process or manufacturing environment
- Strong knowledge of CAPEX project delivery and financial justification
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Solid understanding of health, safety, and environmental standards
- A collaborative mindset with a passion for continuous improvement
What we can offer you
- We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing.
- Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
- Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
- Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
- Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
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About William Grant & Sons
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive. We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”. Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams. We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.
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