The Bread Factory is London’s leading Artisan Bakery, known for award-winning breads, pastries, and cakes, supplying top-quality products across e-commerce, grocery, food services, and retailers such as our GAIL’s Bakeries nationwide. As our teams grow, we seek our next Engineering Project Manager to join our team. Take projects from strategic concept through design, build, commissioning, and operational handover — delivering on time, on budget, and to world-class standards. Be hands-on with our partner contractors, owning the management oversight of contractor activities on-site and in our bakeries, ensuring they’re delivered to a safe, high standard. Facilitate strong cross-functional working across our internal teams to support the delivery of our engineering growth agenda from Technical, Health & Safety, Operations and wider teams. Manage design, installation, construction, and commissioning of new production environments and automated equipment. Drive detailed project plans, risk management, procurement, and contractor governance. Ensure compliance with food manufacturing standards, legislative requirements, and health & safety regulations (including CDM). Lead external engineering partners, OEMs, and integrators, ensuring commercial, technical and health & safety excellence. Drive supplier evaluation, contract negotiation, and lifecycle support agreements. Review throughput optimisation in existing manufacturing lines, ensuring bottleneck removal, line balancing, and performance improvement. Experience in managing large capital projects in a food manufacturing environment (equipment, space, automation). Deep knowledge of food manufacturing equipment & automation — ideally bakery — including robotics, PLCs, controls, MES, SCADA, and line balancing. Proven ability to take projects from strategy through design, build, commissioning, and optimisation. Able to drive timelines, cost control, and disciplined project governance.

E xperience in managing large capital projects in a food manufacturing environment (equipment, space, automation). Deep knowledge of food manufacturing equipment & automation — ideally bakery — including robotics, PLCs, controls, MES, SCADA, and line balancing. Proven ability to take projects from strategy through design, build, commissioning, and optimisation. Able to drive timelines, cost control, and disciplined project governance. Strong commercial and vendor management capability. Engineering degree or equivalent technical qualification preferred

Fresh bread daily to take home to enjoy with family and friends. ~50% discount at GAIL’s and 40% off at The Bread Factory & The Flour Station Markets. ~25 days holiday + bank holidays ~ Discounts and Savings from high-street retailers and restaurants ~Cycle to work scheme

At The Bread Factory, all our teams take pride in crafting beautiful, freshly baked loaves, pastries, and cakes. We Care about Community: We believe in minimising unsustainable practices and reducing waste. While ensuring we continue to provide everyone with nutritious high-quality food.

We’re committed to sustainability across our supply chain—from reducing waste and reusing surplus to supporting regenerative farming that helps restore the planet.

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