Senior Engineering Project Manager - Mechanical
Your Manager: Engineering Manager
Team: Global Engineering - Distillation & Maturation, UK & I
Location: Elgin or Glasgow, UK
Contract Type: Permanent
Travel requirement: Regularly across local geography, and across UK&I as needed and occasional to other regions.
Pernod Ricard is a worldwide leader in the spirits and champagne industry, blending traditional craftsmanship, state-of-the-art brand development, and global distribution technologies. Our prestigious portfolio of premium to luxury brands includes Absolut vodka, Ricard pastis, Ballantine’s, Chivas Regal, Royal Salute, and The Glenlivet Scotch whiskies, Jameson Irish whiskey, Martell cognac, Havana Club rum, Beefeater gin, Malibu liqueur, and Mumm and Perrier-Jouët champagnes. Our mission is to ensure the long-term growth of our brands with full respect for people and the environment, while empowering our employees around the world to be ambassadors of our purposeful, inclusive, and responsible culture of authentic conviviality.
Pernod Ricard’s Gold Brand Unit is the Group’s Aged Spirits & Champagne division, bringing together the prestigious portfolios of Irish Distillers, Chivas Brothers, Martell Mumm Perrier- Jouët and North American Distillers. With a global team operating across 40 sites and brands spanning Irish, Scotch and American Whisk(e)y, Cognac, Champagne and wine, the division unites exceptional craftsmanship and deep expertise across iconic terroirs in Ireland, Scotland, France and North America. Its portfolio, rooted in heritage and provenance, embodies Pernod Ricard’s commitment to excellence from Premium to Ultra-Prestige, delivering some of the world’s most celebrated and enduring spirits and champagnes.
About the role
We are currently looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Project Manager to be responsible for leading major capital expenditure (Capex) projects and delivering agreed project outcomes safely, effectively and within agreed timelines and budgets. This role also includes Capex management of the projects under its governance, ensuring budgets are correct, maintained and correctly phased from a cash perspective.
What you will do
Project Management
- Lead and support multidisciplinary teams to successfully deliver strategic projects from concept through to completion.
- Build and support project teams with the skills, expertise and resources required for successful project delivery.
- Coordinate all technical activities, including design packages, specifications. Assist in Request for Proposal (RFP) processes, vendor selection and constructability reviews.
- Ensure Capex requirements are supported by executed studies (FEED, detailed design).
- Ensure seamless integration of global technology experts in design discussions.
- Arrange asset testing in cooperation with startup leads and ensure contractual performance compliance.
- Manage internal and external communication for project execution. Oversee reporting and meeting cadence with senior management and steering committees.
- Support continuous learning and professional development for yourself and others within the project team.
- Provide technical expertise, coaching and support throughout project delivery.
- Ensure compliant handover to Operations in all areas: technology, safety, quality.
Capex Management
- Track progress, monitor and steer costs of ongoing projects.
Your skills and background
- Degree qualified in Mechanical Engineering (or similar) and Chartered Mechanical Engineer or sufficient experience to achieve
- Substantial engineering project management experience delivering projects in a process environment.
- Experience in risk management, stakeholder engagement and financial planning within project environments.
- An understanding of project budgets and the ability to support effective project delivery and decision-making.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders.
Why join us?
Collective Spirit
You will be part of a connected, international community shaped by iconic brands, a performance mindset, and a proud legacy, where collaboration, fun and ambition coexist.
Craft your Path
We empower you to own your career, innovate boldly and grow alongside our business, surrounded by leaders who value curiosity, energy, and impact.
Cultivate the Future
You’ll help shape a business with a soul — one that cherishes the land, respects communities, and brings good times from a good place, responsibly and sustainably.
People are at the heart of everything we do at Pernod Ricard and are the foundation of our collective spirit as ‘Créateurs de Convivialité’. We promote inclusion throughout our business and supply chain. In our teams, we proactively foster a diverse work force and an inclusive culture, an environment where we can truly be ourselves.
We will assess your application for this role based on your skills, experiences, and achievements, not your gender, age, ethnic or educational background or any other such factors. Our recruiting team are more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process, in order for you to participate fully in our recruitment experience.
Our mix of benefits·
- Competitive salary, along with performance related bonus
- Defined Contribution Pension
- Private medical insurance, including income protection
- Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
- Generous annual holiday plus public holidays
- Pernod Ricard share incentive plan and share ownership plan
- Life Assurance
- An allowance each year to spend on our brands
- Our reward & recognition scheme
- Employee discounts from a range of high street retailers
Learn more about working with Pernod Ricard https://www.pernod-ricard.com/en
Learn more about Chivas Brothers https://www.chivasbrothers.com/
Job Posting End Date:
Target Hire Date:
2026-11-30Target End Date:
Skills Required
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or a similar discipline
- Chartered Mechanical Engineer status or sufficient experience to achieve it
- Substantial engineering project management experience delivering projects in a process environment
- Experience in risk management within project environments
- Experience in stakeholder engagement within project environments
- Experience in financial planning within project environments
- Understanding of project budgets
- Ability to support effective project delivery and decision-making
- Strong communication and collaborative stakeholder-management skills
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Pernod Ricard Insights
What We Do
Pernod Ricard is a convivial, responsible and successful global wine and spirits group and the #1 premium spirits organisation in the world. The Group represents 240 premium brands available in more than 160 countries. We are 18,500 exceptionally talented people worldwide with our own salesforce in 73 countries. Our portfolio is one of the most comprehensive in the market with every major category of wine and spirits, providing Pernod Ricard with a unique competitive advantage. To keep growing our business, transforming our industry and making a positive impact on the world, we believe in the power of human connection. Creating ‘convivialité’ is our business and our raison d’être. As ‘créateurs de convivialité’, our purpose is to turn every social interaction into a genuine, friendly and responsible experience of sharing. We believe there can be no convivialité with excess and strive to be sustainable and responsible at every step, from grain to glass.
