Chief Engineer – Bread

To be the technical authority and provide technical leadership for the company’s Bread equipment business.

Engineering qualification to degree level or equivalent.

Overall Technical Responsibility for the bread product range

• Ensure equipment is fit for purpose and class leading in terms of performance and features
• Ensure all bread equipment is compliant with relevant legislation
• Interfacing with the technical department on the design of bread equipment
• To be aware of and follow all company Health & Safety policies and procedures including feeding back any H&S information to management
• Maintenance of the bread equipment standards – responsibility to support and pursue the company’s standardisation strategy
• Travel to group and customer facilities around the world to promote, advise on and trouble shoot bread equipment.

Trusted Advisor to the Sales team and Customers

• Underwriting fitness of purpose for bread proposals / quotations
• Provide technical support for sales activities, including travelling to customer facilities around the world, as a technical advisor
• Actively seeking regular interaction with customers and other bodies in order to understand customers’ requirements, business drivers, trends, buying criteria and business opportunities for Baker Perkins
• Drive the technical solutions as part of the Strategy to Win process enhancing the offer to our customers, compared to our competitors
• Ensuring overseas legal requirements and customer specifications are understood and considered in the proposal process

Technical Risk Control

• Classification of risk profile for proposals and contracts, following the Risk Assessment process
• Outline and where necessary instigate mitigating actions where necessary

Development

• Conceiving innovative and incremental development ideas for the bread equipment range
• Leading development projects for the business sector (resources responsible to others)
• Maintaining an awareness of technological developments which may have an application in Baker Perkins’ bread equipment
• Have an understanding of competitor’s equipment capabilities with a view to our equipment being equal or better
• Understanding industry trends and future requirements driven by product and process changes and/or regulatory changes
• Define new equipment types in line with the sector’s Business Development plans
• Identify patentable ideas and features to protect Baker Perkins intellectual property
• Be aware of and demonstrate the company values and behaviours

• Significant experience of Industrial Bread equipment and processes deployed in the industry
• Capability to undertake technical analysis in order to solve problems and steer developments
• Prepared to travel extensively to support equipment sales, site troubleshooting, customer and competitor awareness, and equipment development strategy
• Good communications skills to allow effective working internally, with suppliers and with customers at all levels

Closing date is Friday 19 April 2024, however, this is a rolling campaign and we'll be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and will close the advert early should we receive suitable applications so please don't delay in applying!