Baker Perkins Appoints New Chief Engineer for Biscuit Machinery

David Welch has returned to Baker Perkins as chief engineer for the company’s range of machinery and systems producing biscuits, cookies and crackers, the firm announces.

Welch has been responsible for delivering worldwide multi-million pound biscuit machinery projects, fully commissioned and operational.  He joined Baker Perkins 20 years ago as a sponsored student before his electro-mechanical engineering degree at Aston University, Birmingham.

After a spell as a design engineer on biscuit machinery, he became a commissioning engineer; assistant chief engineer; and chief engineer.  He returns to this position after a spell as engineering project manager at Cerealto where he was instrumental in the establishment of a new biscuit and bar factory in the UK.