Project Engineer

Job Opportunity: Project Engineer Location: St Mary Bourne Shift Pattern: 40 hours per week, 7.30am – 4pm (5 days per week) Salary: up to £55,000 (plus £3,000 annual training fund) and eligible to join our bonus scheme, company pension and private medical insurance Are you a hands-on engineer who thrives on delivering impactful machinery installations and driving real performance improvements? Do you enjoy working close to the action in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, ensuring equipment runs safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards? Ready to take ownership of engineering projects that boost reliability, reduce downtime, and make a measurable difference to site performance? In this role... You’ll be a hands-on Project Engineer delivering machinery installations and upgrades You’ll drive reliability and performance improvements across site equipment and systems You’ll work within a chilled food manufacturing environment at St Mary Bourne You’ll support the Engineering team in maintaining safe, efficient operations You’ll ensure all work meets high safety, quality, and compliance standards You’ll play a key role in supporting site-wide engineering and improvement projects You can do this if you have... Experience in food manufacturing, FMCG, or industrial engineering Strong electrical fault-finding, installation, and testing skills Solid mechanical knowledge with a hands-on approach Ability to read and update electrical and mechanical drawings Relevant electrical qualifications and a proactive, problem-solving mindset You’ll do this for us... Deliver safe installation and modification of machinery and equipment Support engineering projects to meet agreed timelines and standards Maintain accurate engineering records and documentation Drive continuous improvement to reduce downtime and improve efficiency Lead and support root cause analysis and problem-solving activities Collaborate across teams to ensure HSE compliance and operational excellence Did you know... We’re committed to developing our engineers and offer a wide range of training opportunities: including electrical controls, 18th Edition, machinery safety, hydraulics, pneumatics, and multi-skilled conversion programmes. You’ll also have the chance to build your automation expertise through PLC maintenance and programming, along with exposure to OEM machinery systems and specialist tools such as AutoCAD and welding. Alongside technical training, we invest in your growth with courses in Lean Sigma, IOSH Managing Safely, Prince2, and structured management development programmes to support your long-term career progression. Vitacress Salads, based in leafy St Mary Bourne, Andover is one of the principal salad and watercress suppliers in the UK. With our own salad leaf farms, we take immense pride in delivering a field to fork operation. We grow, wash, pack and distribute salad and watercress for retailer own brands and our own brand Steve’s Leaves. We take pleasure in ensuring the best possible standard and we will empower you to do the same. From the way we grow our products, to the relationships we maintain with customers, everyone knows exactly what is going on. We are authentic and grounded. At the centre of everything is a trust that you can feel every day at work. From the salads that are grown on site; to the investment in facilities and the growth of the business; to growing and nurturing out talented employees, growing is truly at the heart of what we do. Join us and become a trusted partner in our business.