Global Project Engineer
Groot-Bijgaarden (BE), 2 days/week home office, 25% international travel
Do you want to lead international engineering projects in a fast-growing global food company? Are you energized by complex manufacturing environments, new technologies, and real operational impact? Do you combine technical depth with hands-on mentality? Apply now and help shape the future of engineering excellence at Puratos.
About Puratos Belgium
Puratos is a fast-growing Belgian business with more than 11.000 employees worldwide. For over 100 years, Puratos has been developing innovative ingredients and solutions for bakery, patisserie, and chocolate professionals across the globe.
Growth at Puratos is built with a long-term vision. No short-term quarterly thinking, but sustainable investments in people, technology, innovation, and the future of food. The culture is entrepreneurial, international, and people oriented. Employees are trusted with autonomy, responsibility, and the opportunity to continuously grow and develop. Do you already want to feel the Puratos Magic? Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNRsBzuRlNI
To expand its Group Engineering team, Puratos is looking for a Global Project Engineer. This additional position reflects the company’s continued investment in engineering.
Job description
Building the future of Puratos’ global production network
As a Global Project Engineer, you will work on strategic international CAPEX projects ranging from process improvements to large-scale production expansions and strategic investment projects. You support projects that improve capacity, efficiency, food safety, sustainability, and operational performance.
You are involved in the full project lifecycle: from concept and feasibility studies through basic design, to commissioning and handover on site. You collaborate closely with fellow engineers, local plants, suppliers, contractors, engineering partners, R&D, operations, quality, and procurement teams across the globe. You report to the Group Engineering & HSE Director.
What you will take ownership of:
- Develop layouts, P&IDs, component lists, utility loads, functional descriptions and technical specifications.
- Build cost estimates and contribute to financial business cases.
- Coordinate suppliers, contractors, engineering partners and local engineering teams.
- Support procurement: define RFQs and make technical evaluations.
- Follow projects during detailed design, construction, FAT, installation and commissioning.
- Ensure compliance with food safety, hygienic design, HSE and Puratos technical standards.
- Coach and support local teams through troubleshooting, engineering expertise sharing and technical assistance.
Profile
Pragmatic engineer with an international mindset
Requirements:
- Master’s degree in engineering (Industrial Engineering Biochemistry, Chemical, Food, Electromechanics), Bioscience Engineering, Chemical Engineering or equivalent.
- Experience in project engineering and CAPEX projects in industrial manufacturing environments.
- On the wishlist: experience in food, dairy, ingredients, beverage, or other hygienic production environments as these industries typically involve technologies such as liquid or powder processing, aseptic, fermentation, CIP, packaging, plant utilities and automation.
- Fluent in English.
- Willingness to travel internationally.
Competencies:
- Hands-on and solution oriented.
- Strong communicator and relationship builder.
- Comfortable working in an international and matrix organization.
- Pragmatic and resilient during project execution and start-up phases.
- Autonomous and eager to take ownership.
- Curious and motivated to learn and grow.
Offer
Why joining Puratos is a unique opportunity
- Join a financially strong and growing family-owned company that combines long-term vision and stability with an international footprint and entrepreneurial mindset: truly the best of both worlds.
- Take ownership and make a visible impact by driving strategic investment projects from concept to commissioning.
- Work on a broad variety of technologies and production environments, offering continuous learning opportunities.
- Combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution throughout the full project lifecycle.
- Collaborate with experts, engineering teams, and production sites across the globe.
- Enjoy an attractive salary package including company car, bonus, meal vouchers, hospitalization, dental and group insurance fully paid by Puratos, a wide variety of Health & Wellbeing benefits and minimum 5 training days per year.
Location
Groot-Bijgaarden (BE), 2 days/week home office, 25% international travel.
Interested?
Puratos has exclusively entrusted the recruitment and selection for this position to Ceres Recruitment. Curious to learn more about this opportunity? Christine Coucke at Ceres Recruitment will be happy to tell you more. Applications can be submitted via www.ceresrecruitment.be. A personality questionnaire will be part of the recruitment process.
