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Site Project Lead

Location:
Newport, City of Newport, Wales
Category:
Supply Chain
Job ID:
R-97471
Date posted:
08/07/2025
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JOB TITLE :Site Project Lead
LOCATION : Crumlin Factory

REPORTING TO: Factory Director

SALARY:TBC

GRADE: 1M

SHIFT: Days

JOB PURPOSE

This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of the largest Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies worldwide and become part of a passionate and brand-driven team in the Crumlin Unilever factory.

The Site Project Engineer will join our leadership team to lead the development and delivery of Capital Projects across the site, and be responsible for developing projects from initial brief, through to successful practical implementation and handover, delivering project KPI’s, ensuring regulatory compliance, and leading the EEM Pillar of World Class Manufacturing (WCM) principles.

ABOUT UNILEVER

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Persil, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann’s, Lipton, Wall’s, PG Tips, Ben & Jerry’s, Marmite, Magnum and Lynx. Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace”

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Preparing, scheduling, coordinating, and monitoring the assigned engineering projects

  • Own the technical delivery of the project, leading IQ and OQ, working cross functionally with the project delivery team to complete projects successfully, on time, in scope and in full, meeting the project KPI’s.

  • Monitoring compliance to applicable Unilever SHE codes, practices, QA/QC policies, performance standards and specifications including CDM if applicable.

  • Ensure Regulatory Compliance – Machinery Directive, Supply of Machinery Regs, PUWER, CDM, etc

  • Perform overall quality control of the work (budget, schedule, plans, personnel’s performance) and report regularly on project status

  • Assign responsibilities and mentor project team as required

  • Review engineering deliverables and initiate appropriate corrective actions, managing the snag list to rectification with Suppliers

  • Work with the site leadership team to drive up the site efficiency by developing and executing projects to improve EEM. Maintenance, Root Cause Analysis following the WCM methodology for PM and EEM.

  • Responsible for project budgets and cash flow forecasting

Key Performance Indicators

  • Safety (Accidents and process incidents)

  • Quality (Incidents and consumer complaints)

  • Operational Equipment Efficiency

  • Capital Budget and Phasing

  • Scope Delivered

  • Timeline delivery, on time in full

ALL ABOUT YOU

Experience Required

  • Experience of working within Engineering in an FMCG environment and have detailed knowledge of practical and applied engineering

  • Experience of leading technical teams

  • Track record of delivering results through their team using advanced manufacturing techniques (E.g. WCM/TPM/Lean)

  • Understanding and experience of regulatory requirements and CDM

  • Managing Capital Projects from inception to completion.

  • Good communication, interpersonal skills and managing cross functional stakeholders

Professional Qualifications:

  • Minimum HNC in an Engineering Discipline

  • Further qualifications within Safety, Quality and Engineering desirable

  • Working knowledge of AutoCAD desirable

  • Advanced MS Office skills

  • Ability to work with multiple discipline projects

  • Project management skills

  • Decision making ability and leadership skills

  • Time management and organization skills

Key Points of Contact:

  • Engineering Technicians

  • Line Operators

  • Site ManEx Manager

  • Manufacturing Manager

  • External vendors/suppliers

  • Technology and Innovation Manager

  • Quality Manager and team

  • Safety Manager and team

About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all. 

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together for better business performance. We want to push boundaries, and have the flexibility needed to keep adapting in an ever-changing, more dynamic world. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

As part of your hiring journey, we are happy to support requests for reasonable adjustments, to improve your recruitment experience.

To find out more, including more information about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here.

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