Ice Cream SUIT Engineer

3+ years’ experience in Project Engineering with FMCG experience strongly preferred.
Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a project management role.
Professional engineering skills
Project Delivery experience
Experience managing project budgets.

Lison with R&D, Marketing and Supply chain Manufacturing to propose a solution for Innovation project.
Identify the make/supply solutions to solve the problem.
Marketing together with R&D Design, identify the ambition for the consumer experience and how this will be delivered through product, process, and packaging design.
Follow Early Product Management methodology to forecast resources and Capex needed, and to determine how likely the project is to hit launch.
The starting point is to provide an initial technical brief describing the problem and proposed solutions.
Develop project brief with R&D team.
Complete due diligence on the supply chain elements foreseen for the Validate Phase testing/launch plans (including transit trials where necessary). Define testing plan to define any risk , and propose mitigation plan, eg pilot plant trials, factory trials, transport trials, etc.
Capex survey and approval (If new capabilities are required).
Are the capabilities of the new assets future fit?
Risk Assessment to the agreed CRQS/PQS (SHE and Quality)
Clear definition of recipe and process flow diagrams in PLM, including critical parameters & tolerances for materials, semi-finished goods and processes.
KPI’s and KAI’s (Success Index) consolidation & targets
Waste targets in line with IC Innovation Waste Policy
Launch Monitoring Plan – definition & formalisation of action standards for first months after launch
eMOC (equipment and/or process
Post project technical review.

Firsthand experience / track record of delivering major capital project in Ice cream category.