Sr Engineer - Project & Engineering

Role & responsibilities To lead Internal and External Team in selection, Procurement & Delivery of end to end projects along with vendor liaison on equipment, right from planning / capex preparation stage to operationalization and support with stabilization

Preferred candidate profile

• Identify high risk equipment / task in the project.
• After getting NPD project brief identifying / selection of suitable packaging technology
• Preparing end to end capex for all kind of packaging equipment in projects
• Preparing packaging layout and aligning with operation safety, operation excellence teams.
• Preparing project network for packaging equipment and closely monitoring the progress and updating the network regularly with status.
• Close monitoring of capex spent vrs budgeted for all equipment/ tasks
• Preparing URS and floating the enquiry for all packaging equipment.
• Completing Technical bid and coordinating with procurement team for commercial bid and closure of commercial discussion
• Approving equipment drawings and monitoring the equipment progress at supplier work with regular online/F2F meetings and communications.
• Attending FAT along with operation, quality operation excellence team
• Ensure machines /equipment are meeting min machine safety stds.
• Ensure selected equipment are energy efficient, reliable with better output and min rejections.
• Ensure IOT /Digital features are enabled in selected equipment.
• Participate in execution to provide safety technical input for capital projects and ensure 100% compliance with the best safety standards.
• Follow up statutory approvals for the project with operation..
• Finalize civil, mechanical, electrical, and piping consultants / contractors for execution, including sizing and selection of utilities like chillers, boilers, compressors, ETP, transformers.
• Prepare a project scoping document and create/finalize standards/specifications for various activities.
• Focus on meticulous planning with detailed tasks, timeline, dependency, etc. using software tools.
• Ensure that vendor/contractors and other service providers sign the NDA, provide the ABG, PBG etc as per the PO/contract terms
• Ensure safely, timely execution of the project within the approved budget and up to customer satisfaction.
• Ensure site safety conditions during project execution in line with the agreed safety standards.
• Periodically review with various contractors to monitor the progress completion of all actions on time.
• Verify invoices and bills raised by the contractors/service providers and ensure timely payments in coordination with the finance team as per the PO terms/URS
• Travel to factories at different parts of India on a task/need basis to meet the objectives of end-to-end responsibility.
• Manage critical situations in the project and remove constraints through possibility thinking.
• Conduct financial modeling and manage financial aspects, mainly related to the project like calculating ROI, Payback, Cost-Benefit analysis, etc.
• Take necessary steps to ensure process safety at the site and execution plan to mitigate process safety risks.
• Ensure the implementation of the latest technologies in the industry with suitably applicable IoT, Industry 4.0, and digitization.
• Finalize Technically Qualified User Required Specification (URS), Evaluate qualifying criteria for URS, and close observations with suppliers.
• Establish project teams, coordinate activities of multiple disciplines, and ensure the efficient, cost-effective utilization of staff.
• Coordinate with other team members (Operations, Quality, Projects) and ensure site readiness & facilitate installation of bulk mfg, utilities, filling, packing equipment at the site.
• Identify risk areas at an early stage and work to mitigate them
• Develop and implement a risk management plan to identify, assess, and mitigate potential risks throughout the project lifecycle.