Contract Project Engineer
Posted Today by Handley James
£65 Per hour
Outside
Undetermined
Leek, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Contract Project Engineer involves delivering development projects for a global chemical manufacturing business specializing in fine and specialty chemicals. The engineer will manage the full life cycle of projects, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards while collaborating with various engineering teams. The position requires strong project management skills and a background in chemical engineering, with a focus on process improvement and contractor management. This is a 12-month contract offering competitive hourly rates outside of IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure effective and full management of the assigned project(s) on site.
- Ensure contractor management, allocating resources as and when appropriate.
- Identify opportunities for process/project improvements and bring to the engineering team's attention.
- Identification and provision of appropriate design tools.
- Yield calculation, theoretical and actual gap identification.
- Ensure effective commissioning, operational handover, and relevant coaching of the teams where necessary.
Key Skills:
- Degree or equivalent in Chemical Engineering.
- Proven experience within the chemical manufacturing space, ideally on a COMAH regulated site.
- Strong project engineering background.
- Detailed knowledge of plant and processes operated and understanding of constraints.
- Good knowledge of IT including Microsoft Office suite and AutoCAD.
- Project management skills.
Salary (Rate): £65.00/hr
City: Leek
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Handley James Chemical are proud to be again, engaged as the search partner to a global chemical manufacturing business, specialising in fine and speciality chemicals in the search for an experienced Contract Project Engineer, for a 12-month contract. As a Project Engineer you will deliver development projects to meet business needs, ensuring all processes are designed and engineered to an acceptable standard. You will work closely with the wider chemical and other engineering teams to implement and execute projects, ensure health and safety is priority number one. You will manage full life cycle of projects with the relevant team members, manage contractors and ensure projects are delivered on time and in full. The successful candidate will be an experienced engineer with a degree in chemical engineering, strong project management experience and knowledge of the chemical manufacturing processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure effective and full management of the assigned project(s) on site.
- Ensure contractor management, allocating resources as and when appropriate.
- To identify any opportunity for process/project improvements and bring to the engineering teams attention.
- Identification and provision of appropriate design tools
- Yield calculation, Theoretical and actual gap identification.
- Ensure effective commissioning, operational handover and relevant coaching of the teams where necessary.
Required experience:
- Degree or equivalent in Chemical Engineering
- Proven experience within the chemical manufacturing space, ideally on a COMAH regulated site.
- Strong project engineering background, within
- Detailed knowledge of plant and processes operated and understanding of constraints
- Good knowledge of IT including Microsoft Office suite and Autocad
- Project management skills
This is an outstanding opportunity to gain access to an international Chemical company, one with tremendous future opportunities. In return our client is offering an hourly rate of £55 - £65ph outside of IR35, plus expenses.
*Please kindly note , whilst we endeavour to respond to all candidate applications, due to the very high response rate across our various advertising campaigns, we may only be able to reply to candidates who match the position, thank you.
About us: Handley James Chemical are a UK based, international Search business, we pride ourselves on a personable and process driven approach ensuring the very best levels of service. As acknowledged specialists in a number of disciplines, we support the Chemical and associated industries by providing a truly consultative service to our clients and candidates alike.