Facilities Improvement Project Engineer

General Dynamics Lands Systems UK; Pentrebach; On-site; GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense solutions provider in Pentrebach seeks a full-time Improvement Project Engineer to enhance infrastructure and drive improvement projects. The successful candidate will work on FM services, ensuring compliance with legislation and facilitating improvement workshops. Candidates must have a strong project management background, relevant qualifications, and experience using Microsoft Project. This role offers competitive pay and a supportive development environment.

Benefits

Compressed nine-day fortnight

Flexible benefits scheme

Personalised career development plan

Professional training and development courses

Flexible working environment

Company sports and social club

Qualifications

• Completed an apprenticeship including relevant qualifications.
• Experience in developing Engineering and Facilities policies.
• Technician experience post apprenticeship.

Responsibilities

• Lead FM improvement projects across various systems and equipment.
• Facilitate improvement workshops and initiatives in services.
• Ensure compliance with legislation and business standards.

Skills

Project management experience

Knowledge of CDM Regulations

Experience using Microsoft Project

Understanding of Facilities framework requirements

Education

Degree qualification

Relevant ONC and HNC academic qualifications

Job description

Description

General Dynamics Land Systems is on the look-out for a full‑time Improvement Project Engineer to join our Facilities Team, based in Merthyr, South Wales. The successful and inclusive candidate will earn a favourable salary of £39,200 based on experience and potential. This is an ideal role for someone who has a proactive and positive mindset and a keen desire to grow professionally. Joining an established team, the successful candidate will provide effective engineering resource to develop and improve infrastructure, amalgamating new technologies to increase the department’s effectiveness. To design, implement and commission all variations of improvement projects, enabling the department to respond dynamically within a modern, demanding and fast‑moving environment.

If you were already working in this position, this is what you would have been working on this week:

• Lead all variations of FM improvement projects to an agreed cost, quality and timescales, across buildings, systems, internal procedures, plant and equipment.
• Facilitate improvement workshops and drive initiatives across all FM services, Examples of these including waste and energy management, security services, business continuity, Emergency planning and property insurance.
• Ensure compliance with all statutory legislation, business policies, regulations & standards including CDM regulations.

To apply for this role, you will require the following:

• The applicant must have completed an apprenticeship, including a minimum of relevant ONC and HNC academic qualifications.
• Knowledge of CDM Regulations.
• To have a degree qualification.
• Technicians experience post apprenticeship.
• To have successfully completed a nationally recognised project management training course
• To have experience using Microsoft project or equivalent.
• To have experience in the development of Engineering and Facilities policies, procedures and have an understanding of Facilities framework requirements and associated strategies.

Our Company Benefits:

• A compressed nine‑day fortnight – which means every other Friday off!
• A flexible benefits scheme - allowing you to adapt your benefits to suit yours and your family’s needs
• A personalised career development plan, alongside regular progress reviews - supporting and valuing your progression within the Company
• Professional training and development courses, both internal and external - allowing you to reach your full potential
• A flexible working environment where your contributions are recognised and rewarded, which includes compressed hours, reduced hours and job share
• A Company sports and social club, offering events at discounted prices – giving you the opportunity to meet and socialise with your fellow colleagues outside the workplace

About General Dynamics UK

General Dynamics Land Systems is a global leader in providing products and support across the full spectrum of combat vehicles. Our global team has more than 6,000 employees working towards creating a diverse product portfolio delivering best‑in‑class capability to Armed Forces communities worldwide. In the UK, we employee more than 700 people and are leading the way in Armoured Fighting Vehicles and sustainment services. Our vision is documented and embedded into our culture, so all employees understand the Company’s direction and their role in achieving it. We are currently delivering the AJAX programme, providing 589 Armoured Fighting Vehicles in six variants to the British Army and have also developed and delivered 400 Foxhound vehicles - a highly‑protected and mobile 4x4 platform with high‑deployment availability. We believe in maintaining a diverse workplace – inclusive of beliefs, cultural background, job experiences, thoughts and ideas. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high performance team. As part of our commitment to inclusion and diversity we welcome in particular applications from women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and ethnic minority groups. We are a Disability Confident Employer, as such we offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.