Job Description:
We are looking for a Regional Project Engineer Automation & Controls to lead the development and delivery of CAB investments across multiple sites. The role provides technical expertise and leadership to multi-disciplinary teams delivering a portfolio of engineering projects, which may include controls, automation, electrical, digital manufacturing, process, packaging, utilities and broader facilities or infrastructure scopes.
What are we looking for?
Education:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical, Automation Engineering or similar.
- Project management experience and/or training is an advantage, but not a must.
Technical & Professional Knowledge
- 3-5 years engineering/technical experience.
- Strong technical background in automation, controls, electrical systems or digital manufacturing, with the ability to work across adjacent disciplines.
- Experience with PLC/HMI/SCADA systems, electrical systems or manufacturing digital is highly desirable.
· Working knowledge of safety, food safety and regulatory requirements in manufacturing environments is an advantage but not a must.
Experience
- Delivery of capital projects with significant technology, automation or electrical content within live manufacturing environments.
- Budget management and cost control.
- Management of system integrators, electrical contractors and technology vendors.
- Ability to apply known technologies independently while working effectively within multi‑disciplinary teams.
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Deliver projects in accordance with the Mars Project Management curriculum, from technical scoping through design, execution, and project closure.
- Lead engineering contractors and subcontractors during all project phases.
- Maintain effective supplier relationships to support quality, reliability, and efficient project delivery.
- Manage project budgets for assigned projects, ensuring delivery within approved financial objectives.
- Depending on project complexity, lead the technical functional pillar or act as overall engineering project leader.
- Define and execute technical solutions ensuring alignment with business needs, engineering standards, human safety, food safety, environmental, and legal obligations.
- Hold primary responsibility for installation activities and I/O testing, ensuring safe execution and readiness for commissioning.
- Apply global and regional engineering standards and regulatory requirements consistently throughout project execution.
- Develop and align equipment performance specifications to support procurement, equipment ordering, and Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT).
- Act as a functional expert providing technical guidance to other departments in specific technology areas.
- Participate actively in the Regional Community of Practice (COP), contributing to global standards, supporting standard reviews and improvements, and driving consistent implementation across the cluster.
- Maintain awareness of industry trends in automation, digital manufacturing, data, robotics and smart factory solutions.
What We Offer:
- Engaging work environment: Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Competitive Compensation: Attractive financial rewards, including a performance-based Business Bonus and annual salary increase based on performance.
- Comprehensive Well-being: We are committed to your well-being. Our benefits package includes a discount to health insurance, a company-funded Employee Assistance Program, and an annual contribution toward your personal health and wellness initiatives.
- Secure Future: A generous pension scheme to help you plan for the long term.
- Career Growth: Personalized development plans and dedicated support to help you build your career.
- Community Engagement: Opportunities to participate in volunteering initiatives during working hours.
- Leadership & Purpose: Working in a people & purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build today the world we want tomorrow, led by experienced leaders.
- Access to many of the Mars brands at a discounted price available in the employee shop.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Automation Engineering, or a similar field
- 3–5 years of engineering or technical experience
- Strong technical background in automation, controls, electrical systems, or digital manufacturing
- Experience delivering capital projects with significant technology, automation, or electrical content in live manufacturing environments
- Experience managing project budgets, cost control, system integrators, electrical contractors, and technology vendors
- Ability to apply known technologies independently and work effectively within multidisciplinary teams
- Experience or training in project management
- Working knowledge of safety, food safety, and regulatory requirements in manufacturing environments
Mars Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mars and has not been reviewed or approved by Mars.
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Healthcare Strength — The benefits package is positioned as comprehensive, with broad medical coverage and additional protections like life insurance and short- and long-term disability. Mental health support is emphasized, including free mental health services and wellbeing programming under initiatives such as Mars Be Well.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is highlighted as market-leading in the U.S., with an example of 18 weeks fully paid for both parents. Additional family-related leave types such as sick time for caregiving and bereavement leave are also described as part of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are described as strong, including 401(k) matching (with a 6% match cited) and pension plans in some cases. The broader package also references retirement savings options and contributions aligned to local market practice, supporting long-term financial security.
Mars Insights
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
