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Henkel holds leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses: Our portfolio includes well-known hair care products, laundry detergents, fabric softeners as well as adhesives, sealants, and functional coatings.
Senior Site Engineer
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Senior Site Engineer
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About this Position
This role leads the engineering and maintenance function, ensuring asset integrity, reliability, and compliance with business goals. You’ll define maintenance and CAPEX strategies, oversee mechanical and electrical installations, including in Hazardous Areas and act as Legionella Responsible Person. As process owner, you’ll ensure regulatory and audit compliance, support COMAH improvement plans, and advise on safety, environmental, and security matters. You’ll monitor performance via KPIs and collaborate with SHEQ to promote a strong safety culture. Emergency response leadership, scenario planning, and coordination with local and national agencies are key to ensuring site resilience and regulatory compliance.
What you´ll do
•Lead the Engineering and maintenance function for the company’s operational assets - ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Define and implement a maintenance strategy with pre-determined budgets.
• Together with the PM, define CAPEX project strategy to meet future business requirements.
• Process owner for all maintenance and engineering procedures, ensuring regulatory and audit compliance.
•Responsible for design and installation of assets for use both within and outside of Hazardous Areas from both mechanical and electrical perspective.
•Legionella Responsible Persons hot & cold water systems
• Responsible for maintenance and engineering performance - monitored through applicable KPIs as to asset integrity / reliability and budget delivery.
• Work in conjunction with the SHEQ supervisor, providing technical support and technical capability in the implementation of the company’s COMAH improvement plan and promoting a positive SHEQ business culture.
• Advise as necessary on Process Safety Management, Environmental and Security issues.
• Ensure all site activities are controlled using suitable management systems and are compliant with COMAH regulations, such as MOC, HAZOP/HAZID, LOPA and other quantitative or qualitative risk assessment techniques.
• Lead on emergency response issues, with focus on scenario setting and training. Working with local Blue Light agencies along with national security and resilience agencies.
What makes you a good fit
•Degree in Electrical, Instrumentation, or Automation Engineering.
•5+ years’ relevant experience in a COMAH/chemical or process manufacturing environment.
•Proven track record managing E&I maintenance and projects, including budget responsibility.
•Strong working knowledge of UK electrical regulations, functional safety, and industrial control systems.
•Experience with permit-to-work systems, contractor management, and site safety leadership.
•Familiarity with CMMS and engineering drawing tools (e.g., AutoCAD).
•Excellent communication, leadership, and organisational skills.
Some perks of joining Henkel
- Diverse national and international growth opportunities
- Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
- Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
- Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
- Performance bonus / incentives
- Competitive Pension & Life Assurance - Company contributes up to 10% of basic salary
- Annual Leave: 27 days plus 8 Bank Holidays
- Celebration vouchers
At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, disabilities, and generations.
JOB ID: 25085403
Job Locations: United Kingdom, England, St. Neots
Contact information for application-related questions: RecruitmentUKIE@henkel.com
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I am interested in several jobs. Can I apply for multiple positions at the same time?
Yes – simply fill out your profile in our online application system. Once your online profile is complete, you can apply for multiple positions.
The job offer is written in English – should I write my application in English as well?
Yes, please. As Henkel is an international company you will be working with colleagues from all over the world and English is our official company language. Generally, the ‘rule’ is: please write the application in the same language as the job ad.
Do I get feedback during the application process about the state of my application?
Each position that we have open with Henkel is unique, and finding the right candidate is important for both the hired candidate as well as for Henkel. We want to make sure that both the candidate and the company are a good fit for each other. We will provide feedback to the candidates throughout the entire process.
Can employees move between business areas and/or to a different country?
Yes, in fact it is an expectation within Henkel that our talent is flexible and mobile. This helps to support the company on a broad, global level.
Our “Triple Two” philosophy promotes this expectation, by allowing you to work in at least two different roles, in two different business areas and two different countries. The reason behind this philosophy is that we believe working in different roles, business units and functions is good for your personal development and improves your understanding of Henkel as a global company.
Here you will get further information on our training programs.
Whom do I contact if I have questions concerning my application?
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