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Engineering & Projects Manager

Salary: £57,100 - £72,580

Location: Cambridge – DC-10, Hybrid

Contract: Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week)

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation, and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

We are looking for a technically proficient leader to join the Group Print & Operations management team as our Engineering & Projects Manager. Group Print & Operations fulfill our customer requirements across the world, printing, packing and despatching millions of examination items securely to our customers around the world. We are also responsible for managing the life changing scripts returned from our learners, preparing them for physical or digital assessment.

About the role

You will be leading the Group Print & Operations Engineering team, ensuring specialist process equipment, buildings, and plant are available, have maximum reliability and are legally compliant at all life-cycle stages. The role requires leading and developing the Engineering team; managing and maximising value from a number of external service providers and indirectly managing support services provided by the group. This is a demanding role at an exciting time within the organisation as we seek to further integrate the publishing and exams operations and invest in new and refreshed technology. As the Engineering Manager you'll be joining a highly motivated team recognised for outstanding performance and perpetual drive for continuous improvement. The role is pivotal in delivering our daily mission by ensuring maximal plant and equipment efficiency as well as project delivery to ensure we continue to develop the people, processes and technology that underpin our strategic aims.

Your principal accountabilities will include:

​​General Management​ & Leadership

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Provide leadership and management, supporting the personal development of staff in line with the Group values, promoting a positive and collaborative service culture.

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Plan and coordinate team development incorporating individual, business, and regulatory training and competency needs

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Build and plan fully justified short- and medium-term budget for equipment and buildings. This incorporates capital and operational expenditure incorporating replacement, refurbishment, and ongoing maintenance

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Ensure team and site contractors are managed to the highest safety standards in line with legislative and company policy. Risk assessments and equipment assessments are in place for all activities and equipment falling under the remit of the team.

Buildings & Equipment Management / Compliance

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Act as duty holder for GPaO sites for Electrical, Legionella and Asbestos Safety

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Lead the Engineering team activity to maintain the highest safety standards inclusive of regulatory compliance, conformance to and development of processes within ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 management systems

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Set out maintenance strategies for equipment and plant ensuring maximum equipment availability and cost effectiveness.

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Manage supplier relationships, including setting-up, challenging and optimising service agreements to provide a cost-effective responsive service that meets current and future business needs.

Project Management

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Specify equipment and plant to meet the needs of GPaO and manage the delivery of solutions from vendor selection through commissioning.

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Directly / indirectly manage building improvement projects, inclusive of attainment of cost, quality, and delivery outcomes.

About you

You will be drawing on a range of in-depth Engineering and Project Management knowledge as well as drawing from relevant industrial experience. You'll have a track record in leading Engineering teams in FMCG / Logistics / similar industries and be able to demonstrate excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.

You will have experience of delivering complex engineering projects coordinating the activities of multiple resources including consultants, contractors, and technology providers.

Effective communication to a wide audience both verbally and in writing will be key to managing the demands of the multiple stakeholders the output of the role serves. You will be able to demonstrate how you have leveraged data to identify inefficiencies and prioritise improvement initiatives in industrial settings.

You will be open and highly collaborative, able to work effectively with many internal and external stakeholders to enable us to meet our stretching operational goals.

Balancing the demands of the role will need you to be highly organised and coordinate multiple strands of activity across directly indirectly managed teams. This will mean being flexible and be able to prioritise effectively.

You'll be able to demonstrate a range of qualifications / CPD in the field of the Engineering Management, Reliability Engineering and Project Management. Demonstrating competency working in these areas is a must.

Above all, you'll need to inspire, deliver, demonstrate confidence with humility, engender trust and enable inclusivity.

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

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28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

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Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance

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Discretionary annual bonus

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Group personal pension scheme

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Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary

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Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 12 January 2025 although we may close it earlier if suitable candidates are identified. Interviews are scheduled to take place on 23 or 24 January 2025.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov. uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

Engineering & Projects Manager