Lead Mechanical/Process Engineer – Nottinghamshire, East Midlands

Lead Mechanical / Process Engineer – British Gypsum – Loughborough

As a Lead Mechanical / Process Engineer for British Gypsum, you can expect a rewarding, varied and exciting role where you will be joining a business that is focused on continuing to be a global leader in their field, and who can offer you the career progression and job security associated with an established and respected brand.

The Lead Mechanical / Process Engineer will lead the safe implementation of capital projects for process plants including process design improvement, procurement, installation and commissioning on multi-million-pound projects globally. The Lead Mechanical / Process Engineer will be a crucial part of a technical-minded world-class engineering team and will be responsible for the management of their own exciting portfolio of projects, liaising with several key departments and key stakeholders in a cross-department function. This is a challenging role where they will be international travel to oversee the various stages, handover of finalised projects and ongoing technical mentoring. This is a fantastic opportunity to make your mark on some of our upcoming best-in-class manufacturing facility projects in a vital cog in the Saint Gobain business model

British Gypsum is one of more than 30 exciting Saint-Gobain brands in the UK and Much of Britain has been built with British gypsum. Gypsum is the vital raw material at the heart of our plaster and plasterboard, and much of it is mined, milled and made in Britain. In fact, as custodians of British gypsum reserves, we’ve been mining it for more than 150 years.

And what about flexibility? The world of work is changing, if you have specific needs around flexibility we’re always open to discussing ways of making it work if we can, hit apply and be happy to talk to you.

Here’s a short breakdown of the key focus areas in this role

• Support Project Managers on major projects undertaken by GMT worldwide or existing operations to deliver installations on time and to budget
• Delivery of process solutions to best performance at the lowest cost giving due regard to safety, operability, maintainability etc.

• Ensure efficient handover of projects ensuring full documentation, training, and support and then provide support to operating plants on our global projects
• Scope and develop initial designs and layouts for capital projects, and then expand them into detailed plans and drawings providing feasibility studies, specifications and budget estimates for capital schemes right to commissioning of new equipment and processes

Our key attitude; is Innovative. Customer Focused. Agile. Open and Engaging. Entrepreneurial – are what makes us and how we like to work at Saint-Gobain. These are shared characteristics of us all and traits we look for in future team members. We are looking for the right person to fit in with our Saint-Gobain culture, but we know this needs to be right for you too. So if you think you match the following, then we would love to hear from you!

Although we do require someone with a Mechanical or Chemical Engineering based qualification as well as having a good grounding in project exposure, a positive attitude and a commitment to your learning and development are most important. If you haven’t worked in this industry, that’s okay, we will support your learning to help you develop with us.

Is Saint-Gobain the right company for me?

We are on a mission to ‘Make the World a Better Home‘; this is about creating solutions that improve the performance of buildings, being responsible and ethical, and supporting our local communities. It’s also our journey to Net Carbon Zero. So if you want to be part of our new vision and share the same passion as us, we’d love to hear from you. Regardless of which business you join, you will be welcomed into a professional and warm environment, where we value all of our employees equally and have a strong focus on their health, safety and wellbeing at all times

Did you know we’ve won ‘Top UK & Global Employer’ 6 years running?! Is Saint-Gobain an Inclusive employer?

We’re working hard to be, and we’re keen to hire talented people regardless of their background, abilities, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, what football team you support, taste in music, fashion sense or anything else that makes you, you! We believe that working in a diverse business can be more enjoyable, teams can be more innovative, and make better decisions. We already employ many fantastic people from diverse backgrounds, but we still want to do more.