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Electrical Controls & Automation Engineer
Ashby-de-la-Zouch (Home of Hula Hoops, Space Raiders, Nik Naks and more)
On-site | Monday - Friday | Days (some flexibility required)

Join our snack-loving team
We’re looking for an Electrical Controls & Automation Engineer to join us at KP Snacks. If you’re ready to bring your ideas to the table, grow your skills and be part of a team that values what makes you, you – this could be your next big move.

Who are we?
We’re KP Snacks, part of the Intersnack family. Across more than 30 countries, over 15,000 of us work together to make the snacks people love – from Hula Hoops to McCoy’s. In the UK, we’re a team of around 2,400 colleagues, based across seven sites and our Slough HQ. We’re proud of our close-knit culture, where we speak up, celebrate differences and push boundaries together.

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced Electrical Controls & Automation Engineer to join our Ashby site. This is a hands-on role for someone with a strong electrical, controls and instrumentation background who enjoys solving complex engineering problems and improving equipment reliability.

As a key technical specialist, you'll support the diagnosis and resolution of electrical, controls and automation issues across the site, while helping to develop the capability of our wider Engineering team. You'll work closely with Engineering, Manufacturing and Technical colleagues to improve equipment performance, deliver automation projects and ensure our systems remain safe, reliable and fit for the future.

This role would suit someone who is comfortable using PLC software, electrical schematics and control system diagnostics to identify root causes and drive lasting improvements within a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

What’s in it for you?
We believe in rewarding our colleagues and helping them thrive. Here’s a flavour of what we offer:

• Competitive annual salary

• Annual bonus scheme, with a strong track record of overachievement

• Comprehensive healthcare support – including Medicash Health Cash Plan, Private Healthcare, Digital GP, Best Doctors second opinion service and specialist cancer care

• KP Pension Plan – contribution matching up to 7% of your salary

• 25 days holiday, plus the option to buy more

• KP4ME – our online platform for benefits, discounts, wellbeing tools and more

What will you be doing?

• Provide specialist EC&I support by leading the diagnosis and resolution of complex electrical, controls, instrumentation and automation issues across the site

• Lead automation fault finding using PLC software, electrical schematics and control system diagnostics to identify root causes and prevent repeat failures

• Improve equipment reliability by identifying opportunities to enhance performance, maintainability and automation standards across manufacturing operations

• Deliver automation projects from concept through to commissioning, working closely with colleagues, suppliers, OEMs and contractors

• Develop engineering capability through coaching and technical support, helping engineers build their electrical, PLC and automation fault-finding skills

We’d love to hear from you if you can bring:

• Electrical engineering expertise through an NVQ Level 3, Advanced Apprenticeship or equivalent qualification, alongside strong practical experience in an electrical, controls or automation role

• Strong fault-finding capability with proven experience diagnosing electrical, controls, instrumentation and automation issues within a manufacturing or industrial environment

• PLC and automation knowledge including Siemens PLCs, with experience using PLC software as a diagnostic tool and Siemens TIA Portal experience being advantageous

• Controls and instrumentation experience including industrial control systems, sensors, drives, HMIs, industrial networks and automated manufacturing equipment

• Continuous improvement and project experience with a track record of delivering automation improvements, supporting equipment reliability and coaching others to develop technical capability

Our purpose
At KP Snacks, we're passionate about creating happy snacking moments through our great tasting snacks and iconic brands. Every day, millions of people enjoy our products, including Hula Hoops, McCoy's, KP Nuts, Tyrrells, Skips, POM-BEAR and Butterkist, making us one of the UK's leading snack manufacturers.

For decades, we've been delighting consumers by combining well-loved favourites with exciting innovations that reflect changing tastes and expectations. We're equally passionate about our people and committed to creating a workplace where everyone can grow, develop and make a real impact.

As part of the Intersnack Group, one of the world's leading snack manufacturers, we combine global expertise with a shared commitment to creating happy snacking moments every day.

We’re committed to inclusion
We’re building a workplace where everyone belongs. If you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you – your unique perspective could be just what we need. And if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you, just let us know.

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About Mistral

Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector, co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms.

We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.

About the job

Mistral AI is looking for a Domain Expert in crashworthiness simulations to help build AI-accelerated simulation capabilities for industrial engineering.

You will work at the intersection of industrial simulation, physics modeling, machine learning, and engineering workflows. Your role is to bring deep solid-mechanics expertise into the design, training, evaluation, and deployment of AI Physics Models for real engineering use cases.

This is a hands-on technical role. We are looking for someone who understands industrial structural simulation not only conceptually, but through direct experience with simulation models, solver workflows, data generation, validation, and engineering decision-making.

You will work with research, product, and customer-facing teams to ensure that our models are useful against real engineering standards — not only benchmark metrics.

Relevant application areas may include automotive crashworthiness, aerospace structures, consumer-electronics drop/reliability, manufacturing, durability/fatigue, and other nonlinear structural mechanics problems.

What you will do

• Work with our research team to define, generate, and iteratively improve simulation datasets for training and evaluating crashworthiness foundation models, balancing coverage of relevant physical scenarios, simulation fidelity, and computational cost.

• Design and run high-fidelity simulation campaigns using structural mechanics solvers such as Abaqus, LS-DYNA, Ansys Mechanical, Radioss or equivalent tools.

• Define the relevant variation space for training data: geometry, mesh resolution, material behavior, boundary conditions, loading, contact, joints, failure modes, and engineering KPIs.

• Build or guide automated pipelines for simulation setup, execution, post-processing, dataset creation, and model evaluation.

• Work with research teams to train and evaluate AI models on simulation data, and diagnose failure modes caused by data gaps, poor coverage, numerical artifacts, or model limitations.

• Evaluate model outputs against industrial engineering needs, including field-level accuracy, scalar KPIs, deformation modes, load paths, energy absorption, stress/strain fields, failure indicators, uncertainty, and out-of-domain behavior.

• Work with industrial customers to understand their simulation workflows and engineering priorities, define use cases and success criteria, and incorporate their feedback into model development and validation.

About you

• You have deep expertise in crashworthiness, solid mechanics, and structural mechanics, with substantial experience in industrial simulation workflows.

• You have a Master’s degree or equivalent technical depth in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, civil/structural engineering, computational mechanics, applied physics, or a related field.

• You have 4+ years of relevant industrial experience (or PhD +1 years) in domains such as automotive, aerospace, and consumer electronics.

• You have hands-on experience with explicit dynamics for crash or impact simulation and understand nonlinear FEM and related topics such as contact, plasticity, structural dynamics, buckling, material modeling, fracture/damage, fatigue, crashworthiness, or durability.

• You have direct experience with simulation validation, correlation, model quality, numerical sensitivity, and engineering KPI definition.

• You are a strong Python developer who can build and maintain reliable tools for simulation automation, data processing, and model evaluation. You apply sound software engineering practices, including version control with Git, automated testing, code review, and clear documentation.

• You have hands-on experience working in Linux and HPC environments, including submitting and monitoring batch jobs, selecting appropriate compute resources, and troubleshooting simulation workflows. You can run simulation campaigns efficiently across a compute cluster.

• You are comfortable operating in ambiguous technical environments and turning poorly defined industrial problems into scoped datasets, experiments, metrics, and execution plans.

• You communicate clearly with both deep technical experts and non-specialist stakeholders.

It would be great if you

• Have experience applying machine learning, surrogate modeling, reduced-order modeling, optimization, or data-driven methods to simulation problems.

• Have contributed to reusable internal tools, open-source code, simulation automation frameworks, or production-quality engineering workflows.

• Have experience working directly with industrial customers, product teams, or engineering decision-makers.

• Have publications, patents, internal technical leadership, or recognized contributions in engineering, simulation, computational mechanics, or ML-for-physics communities.

What We Offer

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. Benefits vary by country and may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, meal and transportation allowances, and other location-specific perks.

For the most up-to-date details on benefits available in your location, please refer to our Benefits page.

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About Mistral

Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector, co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms.

We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.

The Role

As a Product Operations Manager (Design), you will sit within Mistral's Product Operations function, with a focus on streamlining the operations of the design team. You will own how the Design team operates as a system — its cadences, its rituals, its coordination, and the connective tissue that lets designers focus on design. This role exists because a design org at our scale needs someone whose full-time job is the operating system itself: defining it, holding it, and continuously tuning it so the team runs with a heartbeat rather than on ad-hoc heroics.

You will own the team's weekly and quarterly cadences — from leadership syncs to planning, retros, and share-outs — and establish how we track work, surface it outward, and make decisions. You'll design the forums where decisions get made and recorded, keep the rituals that create alignment, and aggressively cut the ones that are just overhead.

Equally, you are the bridge across the org. You will coordinate the interlocks between Brand and Marketing for upcoming launches, and between Product and Product Design for the build pipeline — so interdependencies are understood and planned for, not discovered at the last minute. You will partner closely with marketing, PMs, engineering, GTM to align design work with go-to-market timing and surface what's shipping before it ships.

This is a team-of-one role with a founding design-ops mentality. You will build the discipline from scratch, automate repetitive coordination with AI where it helps, and coordinate people where it matters. You report to the Head of Product Operations, working day-to-day with the Head of Design and the design team.

What You Will Do

• Define the operating system of the design team — the cadences, forums, rituals, and source-of-truth that keep the team aligned and moving forward.

• Own the weekly and quarterly cadences, from leadership syncs and critiques to planning, retros, and headcount-cycle inputs.

• Coordinate the Brand × Marketing and Product × Product Design interlocks so design work is surfaced with enough lead time and dependencies are planned, not discovered late.

• Establish how the team tracks and shares out work — a single source of truth for status, and the forums where design is made legible to the rest of the org.

• Design and hold decision-making forums so decisions get made, recorded, and not relitigated.

• Separate ritual from overhead — keep the cadences that create alignment and cut the ones that are just tax.

• Automate repetitive coordination, reporting, and tracking with AI so the team spends time on design, not admin.

• Bring the wider Product Operations toolkit to the design team — data and analytics for transparent reporting, structured feedback loops and early-access programmes, and launch coordination that aligns design work with product release cycles and go-to-market timing.

• Partner with marketing, PMs, engineering and GTM to align design work with go-to-market timing and surface what's shipping.

What We're Looking For

• 6–10 years of experience in design operations, product operations, program management, or a chief-of-staff role within a creative or product organization.

• A founding design-ops mindset — you've built operational disciplines from scratch, not just maintained inherited ones.

• Comfortable automating with AI tools to remove repetitive overhead, while equally skilled at coordinating people and building coalitions without authority.

• Strong systems thinking — you design repeatable rhythms and processes, not just run meetings.

• Design literacy — enough background to have felt the pain designers feel and to be credible with the team.

• A make-it-happen attitude: positive, bias to action, unblocks rather than escalates.

• Excellent communication and synthesis skills — you turn scattered signals into a shared source of truth.

• Ability to thrive in ambiguity and define your own scope in a role with no playbook and no team to delegate to.

What We Offer

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. Benefits vary by country and may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, meal and transportation allowances, and other location-specific perks.

For the most up-to-date details on benefits available in your location, please refer to our Benefits page.

Privacy Policy

Your privacy matters to us. You can learn more about how we handle your personal data in our Applicant Privacy Policy.

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