Process Engineer
Posted 1 week ago by BMSL Group Ltd
£450 Per day
Undetermined
Undetermined
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Summary: The Process Engineer role involves enhancing performance, reliability, and efficiency in industrial and manufacturing environments. This hands-on position requires collaboration with engineering and maintenance teams to identify inefficiencies and implement improvements. The engineer will focus on process optimization and support various projects across sectors such as food and chemicals. The role offers opportunities for career development within a well-established engineering firm.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analysing existing production and process systems to identify improvement opportunities
- Supporting process optimisation, efficiency gains and cost reduction initiatives
- Investigating plant issues, faults and performance gaps, identifying root causes
- Working with mechanical, electrical and automation teams to implement solutions
- Supporting plant upgrades, modifications and continuous improvement projects
- Monitoring performance data and recommending operational improvements
- Ensuring all processes meet health, safety and environmental standards
- Engaging with clients and internal teams to support delivery of engineering solutions
Key Skills:
- Experience working as a Process Engineer, Production Engineer, or similar
- Background within industrial, manufacturing or process environments
- Strong understanding of process optimisation, plant performance and operational improvements
- Ability to analyse data, identify issues and implement practical solutions
- Experience working alongside maintenance, engineering or operational teams
- Strong communication skills with a collaborative, problem-solving mindset
- Lean / continuous improvement experience (Six Sigma, CI, etc.)
- Experience within regulated or high-compliance environments
- Exposure to automation, controls or process systems
Salary (Rate): £450 per day
City: Cardiff
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Engineering
A leading UK engineering services provider delivering critical engineering, maintenance, and process improvement solutions is looking to appoint a Process Engineer to support its growing portfolio of industrial and manufacturing clients.
You will play a key role in improving performance, reliability and efficiency across live production environments.
The Role
This is a hands-on, site-facing role, focused on improving operational processes across manufacturing and industrial facilities.
You will work closely with engineering, maintenance and client teams to identify inefficiencies and implement improvements that drive productivity and reduce downtime.
Key responsibilities include:
- Analysing existing production and process systems to identify improvement opportunities
- Supporting process optimisation, efficiency gains and cost reduction initiatives
- Investigating plant issues, faults and performance gaps, identifying root causes
- Working with mechanical, electrical and automation teams to implement solutions
- Supporting plant upgrades, modifications and continuous improvement projects
- Monitoring performance data and recommending operational improvements
- Ensuring all processes meet health, safety and environmental standards
- Engaging with clients and internal teams to support delivery of engineering solutions
The Environment
Industrial / manufacturing / process-led environments
Work across sectors such as food, FMCG, utilities, chemicals and regulated industries
Mix of site-based engineering work and office-based analysis
Focus on operational performance, asset reliability and continuous improvement
What We’re Looking For
Experience working as a Process Engineer, Production Engineer, or similar
Background within industrial, manufacturing or process environments
Strong understanding of process optimisation, plant performance and operational improvements
Ability to analyse data, identify issues and implement practical solutions
Experience working alongside maintenance, engineering or operational teams
Strong communication skills with a collaborative, problem-solving mindset
Desirable:
Lean / continuous improvement experience (Six Sigma, CI, etc.)
Experience within regulated or high-compliance environments
Exposure to automation, controls or process systems
Pay:
Permanent: £40,000 – £55,000 (DOE)
Contract: £300 – £450 per day (CIS / LTD equivalent)
Ongoing pipeline of work across South Wales and wider UK
Opportunity to work on a variety of process improvement and engineering projects
Why Apply?
Work with a well-established engineering business supporting major industrial clients
Involved in high-impact process improvement and optimisation work
Strong pipeline of work across multiple sectors
Opportunity to develop into senior or lead engineering roles over time
If you’re a practical, improvement-focused Process Engineer who enjoys working on live industrial sites and solving real operational challenges, this is a great opportunity to get involved in varied, long-term engineering work.