Project Engineering Manager

Location : Ahmedabad & Dondaicha

Reports to : Project Director

Direct reports : 5-10 project team members

Workplace type : On site

Company Background

Ingredion is a global Fortune 500 provider of ingredient solutions that touch millions of lives, every day. With over 19,000 customers in 120 countries, we create solutions that help nourish, comfort, and delight people all over the world. We are proud to source our strength from nature. That’s why we’re growing sustainably, with an industry-leading product portfolio that includes plant-based proteins, sugar alternatives and clean and simple ingredients that deliver on changing consumer needs while protecting our planet. Although we are best known for our food ingredients, we are much more than a food business. We co-create bespoke solutions with our customers; from cosmetics and beauty, to paper and textiles, to pharmaceuticals, driven by relentless curiosity. We make it our business to anticipate industry trends, and to bring together the potential of people, nature and technology to make life better.

We don’t just make ingredients. We create possibilities. Be What’s Nextregistered with us.

The Project Engineering Manager is responsible for driving the execution of tasks, encompassing scheduling, time management, and organization. The role interacts with various people who have different responsibilities throughout a project, including engineers, technology professionals, and business leaders. The job holder will ensure that product, client, time, and customer requirements are met throughout the project and upon its completion.

Core Responsibilities

• Project engineering scope of work – Define project engineering scope of work, deliverables and requirements, based on Contract scope of work, relevant Company specifications and other governing documents. Communicate project details clearly to insure understanding by project stakeholders as well as alignment with plant and business goals
• Planning and Implementation – Plan and Implement the Engineering activities both minor and major capital projects on projects and tenders according to Project execution model under the direction of Project Director and in liaison with Plant Manager. Review and evaluate proposed projects as requested to ensure optimum process and/or technology selection and complete scope inclusion.
• Project Leadership – Lead, coordinate and manage the discipline groups and the engineering deliverables quality level to avoid non-value-added work to optimize manhours spent on projects. Share and building team knowledge.
• Meeting and Progress Check – Hold regular project engineering team meetings as required keeping control of progress. Conduct regular meetings with staff to discuss technical, procedural and operational issues and work practices, and to formulate areas for improvement along with possible solutions.
• Project design and review – Perform detailed multidiscipline design for minor projects including process, mechanical, electrical, controls as well as construction planning and budgeting to enable the creation of capital requests.
• Construction standard and compliance – Comply with local, international as well as company design and construction standard.
• Contractor Selection and supervision – ensuring right quality contractors following all applicable EHS standards and engineering standards are appointed and also monitor the work progress.
• Project timeline management – Meet project deadlines by being a results-oriented worker who drives for results.
• Technology Savvy – Provide technical and/or leadership to task force teams that focus on collaborative optimization to promote manufacturing excellence. Maintain a high level of awareness of current and emerging technologies.
• EHS Compliance – Adhere to the EHS requirements stipulated by Company/Clients and maintain and improve the contractor safety performance. Ensure the safe, effective and successful implementation and delivery of engineering projects. Provide technical and/or leadership to safety review exercises.
• Customer feedback – Raise and follow-up technical queries and deviations from customer.
• Cost competitiveness and control – Control project costs as per budget. Bring to the attention of the necessary parties, any problems, assistance or matters that may affect quality, deadlines or costs.

Qualified candidates will have:

Mandatory Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably food and chemical industry with the minimum of 5 to 7 years as an Engineering manager responsible for Projects & Maintenance
• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or any engineering field
• Expert knowledge in Process of Mechanical and Electrical/Control.
• Analyzing requirements and offering complete solutions.
• Read drawing including Flowsheet, P&ID, Civil, Architectural, Piping, Electrical Single Lines and Loop Diagrams.
• Competent in using Microsoft Office Suite (Words, Excel, PowerPoint, Project) products as well as AutoCAD).

Required Behaviors And Skills

• Project management – Knowledge of fundamental project management processes, methodologies and tools & techniques and ability to adapt them to organization and understanding of formal and informal organizational structures.
• Leadership – Knowledge of business purpose of the project and ability to make decisions within that context.
• Communication – Ability to provide information regarding tasks, plans, schedule, strategies, and organization structure to stakeholders.
• Negotiation – Ability to negotiate win-win agreements.
• Team building – Ability to encourage and enable people to work together as a team to accomplish the project.
• Industry management – High-level understanding of applications used in the organizations industry and ability to adapt project management processes to organizations product life cycle.
• People management – Ability to earn trust and respect from projects stakeholders. Ability to influence decisions that need to be made to make the project successful.

Relocation Available:

No