British Sugar is a home-grown success story and one of the most efficient and competitive beet processers in the world. Around 3,500 farmers based in East Anglia and the East Midlands supply our four advanced manufacturing sites with eight million tonnes of sugar beet every year. We, in turn, make this in to over 1 million tonnes of sugar, serving customers across the UK, Ireland and increasingly growing commercially in the EU and world sugar markets.
Salary
Range 60,600.00 to 66,000.00 per annum
Job Purpose
Reporting to the site Project and Portfolio Manager you will be an integral member of the team engaging with key stakeholders and customers to develop and deliver key engineering projects. Working closely with both the operational team and wider British Sugar team you will play an important role in assisting and challenging business practice to ensure all possible solutions are considered and reviewed to solve business problems to lead to the best value project solution.
Core Accountabilities
- Own the project(s) and ensure that the associated time, cost and quality integrity is robust and delivered against primarily through project construction and execution phases.
- Lead the design, contracting, construction and testing of all associated project work in order to deliver the requirements as stated on the full capital investment submission.
- Explore that all possible options for the project are rigorously analysed, such that the alternatives are well understood.
- Select and appoint appropriate contractors for the lifecycle of the project to ensure that the right overall resource/skills are in place and that contractor leaders are engaged and deliver against their obligations.
- Develop and manage a robust project schedule based on the stage-gate process to facilitate effective financial and commercial project management which creates and levers business value.
- Manage the adherence to corporate project governance procedures and processes to ensure that the appropriate management controls are in place and that projects are delivered according to plan.
- Ensure that an appropriate risk management process is applied to ensure that foreseeable significant risks are identified and managed.
- Implementation of an appropriate quality management system to ensure that all project outputs meet the key stakeholder requirements.
- Provide health and safety (H&S) leadership for the project team(s), and assume responsibility for all aspects of H&S associated with the project(s).
- Lead by example in role-modelling the British Sugar Values.
Critical Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
- B.Eng (hons) or HNC or equivalent
- Certificate in project manager or relevant project experience (manage projects > 100k)
- Understanding of capital system
- Strong IT skills
- Good communication skills
- Ability to organise and prioritise.
- Driven with a desire to achieve.
- Works on own initiative and ability to work as part of a team.
Benefits
- Competitive starting salary
- Company matched Pension Scheme - up to 10%
- Private medical insurance
- 26 days holiday + bank holidays
- Buy holiday up to 5 days
- Employee assistance programme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Retail discounts
