Project Engineer
On-siteMinto, New South Wales, Australia
Job Summary
Lead multiple engineering CapEx projects across manufacturing process, packaging, utilities, safety, and infrastructure simultaneously at the Minto Ice Cream manufacturing site. Develop business cases, scopes, budgets, and execution plans while managing the Minto Capital Plan to align investment priorities. Deliver projects safely, on time, within budget, and to agreed performance outcomes by ensuring compliance with SHE, GMP, food safety, and regulatory requirements. Lead risk management, contractor management, and project governance while overseeing FATs, SAT, commissioning, and successful asset handover. Drive standardisation, continuous improvement, and sustainability initiatives to enhance plant reliability and operational effectiveness. Manage project expenditure, forecasts, and cost savings to deliver value. Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, and Finance teams to execute projects end-to-end.
Required Qualifications
- Experience in capital project management and manufacturing operations (5+ years)
- Confidence to operate in FMCG and industrial manufacturing environments with a strong focus on safety, quality, compliance, and operational excellence
- Strong skills in Project delivery and capital project management, including leading projects from concept design and business case development through to commissioning, handover, and operational integration
- Skills in Manufacturing, utilities, automation, and asset management, with the ability to optimise production performance, reliability, maintenance strategies, and engineering systems
- Skills in Financial management and business case development, including budgeting, cost control, capital planning, forecasting, cost optimisation, and investment evaluation
- Stakeholder engagement and influencing, with proven ability to build effective relationships and collaborate with senior leaders, operational teams, suppliers, contractors, and external partners
- Continuous improvement and operational excellence, applying Lean Manufacturing, TPM, IMS, and data-driven methodologies to improve efficiency, productivity, quality, and business performance
- Risk management, safety, and compliance, ensuring adherence to GMP, food safety, quality, engineering, and regulatory requirements while maintaining a strong safety culture
- Leadership and cross-functional team management, successfully coordinating multidisciplinary teams to deliver outcomes, manage competing priorities, and achieve project and operational objectives
- Analytical problem-solving and decision-making, leveraging operational data and business insights to identify opportunities, resolve complex challenges, and drive sustainable improvements
- Strategic planning and performance improvement, with a focus on long-term asset value, sustainability, operational effectiveness, and organisational growth
- Communication, presentation, and negotiation, effectively conveying technical and commercial information to diverse audiences and securing stakeholder alignment on key initiatives
- End-to-end thinking and ownership of results
- Comfort working in a fast-moving, evolving organisation
- Values collaboration, clarity and low-ego ways of working
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Mechatronics, Process, Industrial Engineering, Instrumentation or a related discipline
Desired Qualifications
- Project Management certification
- Chartered Engineer status (or working towards)
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