Manufacturing Project Engineer, NPI & Installations

IF1200 GE Aviation Systems Limited; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Non-contributory Pension

Life Assurance Group income protection

Private medical cover

Holiday Hourly equivalent of 26 days (

Job summary

Dowty, a GE Aerospace company, is offering an 18-month fixed-term contract for a Manufacturing Project Engineer to join our onsite Gloucester team in Brockworth. You will coordinate and support process, facility, equipment, and capability requirements to align with project milestones and standards for new propeller manufacturing systems.

You will work in the NPI team, supporting the development of electrified, sustainable aviation manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Experience in project engineering, manufacturing engineering project delivery, industrialisation support, equipment introduction, or manufacturing facility/equipment programmes.
• Strong ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and suppliers to deliver against milestones in a complex environment.
• Experience supporting installation, commissioning and handover of equipment or manufacturing capability (including documentation and readiness activities).
• Ability to manage actions, dependencies, risks and interfaces with strong attention to detail and follow-through.
• Strong organisational, documentation, and communication skills with confidence working across functions.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing environments and how process needs drive equipment, facilities and infrastructure requirements.

Responsibilities

• Drive day-to-day execution of manufacturing engineering work-packages, ensuring actions, dependencies, and deliverables are clearly owned and progressed.
• Coordinate equipment and facility project activities across internal teams, suppliers, integrators, and site functions to enable safe and effective delivery.
• Support the development and upkeep of project plans, installation plans, commissioning readiness plans, and training/handover plans.
• Maintain clear documentation, assumptions, interfaces, and revision control to support traceability and controlled delivery.
• Track key dependencies, risks, issues, and changes, providing clear updates on actions and delivery impacts.
• Support supplier engagement including meeting cadence, action tracking, document collation, and readiness reviews (e.g., acceptance test preparation and close-out).
• Coordinate site readiness activities including utilities, access, shutdown planning (where applicable), permits, and stakeholders to enable installation activity.
• Support cross-functional alignment across engineering, facilities, quality, HSE, IT/OT, sourcing, operations, and external partners.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

Manufacturing engineering

Installation & commissioning

Documentation

Job description

Dowty, a GE Aerospace company, is offering an 18-month fixed-term contract for a Manufacturing Project Engineer to join our onsite Gloucester team in Brockworth. You will coordinate and support process, facility, equipment, and capability requirements to align with project milestones and standards for new propeller manufacturing systems.

You will work in the NPI team, supporting the development of electrified, sustainable aviation manufacturing.