Plant Project Engineer

Meridian Business Support; Hampstead; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 54,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

On-site parking

Pension

Health care cash back

Life assurance

Company bonus

Fixed working hours

Job summary

Meridian Business Support is seeking a Plant Project Engineer for an Exeter facility. The role requires coordinating multiple projects, overseeing the specification, sourcing, installation and commissioning of new machinery, and ensuring compliance with H&S and site standards.

You will work with contractors and drive reliability improvements across equipment. The successful candidate will have an HNC in Mechanical Engineering with strong project management experience, CAD skills, and knowledge

Qualifications

• HNC in Mechanical Engineering with 5+ years of relevant technical experience.
• Ability to identify and solve root cause of reliability problems and write maintenance procedures.
• Ability to collect and analyse OEE on critical equipment.
• CAD experience and proficiency with the Microsoft suite; Oracle is also useful.

Responsibilities

• Identifying, specifying, sourcing, and purchasing machines and equipment.
• Supervising sub-contractors and ensuring project implementation to time and cost whilst complying with all Company and H&S requirements.
• Creating project plans to support machine rearrangement, equipment installation, improvement, and cost reduction projects.
• Identifying and implementing cost reduction and method improvement opportunities.
• Purchasing parts and equipment for improvement works and raising purchase requisitions.
• Carrying out plant engineering activities, with minimal supervision, across the site including building/mechanical infrastructure and manufacturing equipment.
• Providing technical expertise, including data analysis, planning and execution to improve equipment availability and asset utilisation for the site.
• Identifying and making improvements to the reliability of equipment to reduce reoccurring faults and downtime.
• Assisting Maintenance undertaking fault finding across the plant and on the equipment.
• Implementing and driving reliability excellence (REX) on critical equipment.
• Creation and maintenance of technical files for new and existing equipment.

Skills

Root cause analysis

OEE analysis

Maintenance procedures

Project coordination

Education

HNC in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

CAD

Microsoft Office

Oracle

Job description

Plant Project Engineer

Company: Meridian Business Support

Salary: £52,000 to £54,000 a year

Hours: Part-time

Location: Exeter, EX2 7HF

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 30 Oct 2026

Closing date: 28 Nov 2026

Summary

Project Engineer

The Opportunity:

This role would suit somebody with excellent Project Management skills who's used to working in a fast paced Mechanical Engineering business and can oversee the specification, sourcing, purchasing, installation and commissioning of new machinery(both mechanical and electrical). The Project Engineer will be used to managing mutiple projects simultaneously, have the ability to work with contractors and complete projects in a timely manner. A really interesting, varied and hands on role in a rapidly changing and expanding engineering facility.

Job Responsibilities:

• Identifying, specifying, sourcing, and purchasing machines and equipment.
• Supervising sub-contractors, ensuring project implementation to time and cost whilst complying with all Company and H&S requirements.
• Creating project plans to support machine rearrangement, equipment installation, improvement, and cost reduction projects.
• Identifying and implementing cost reduction and method improvement opportunities.
• Purchasing parts and equipment for improvement works, collating receipts and raising purchase requisitions.
• Carrying out plant engineering activities, with minimal supervision, across the site including building/mechanical infrastructure and manufacturing equipment.
• Providing technical expertise, including data analysis, planning and execution to improve equipment availability and asset utilisation for the site.
• Identifying and making improvements to the reliability of equipment to reduce reoccurring faults and downtime.
• Assisting Maintenance undertaking fault finding across the plant and on the equipment.
• Implementing and driving reliability excellence (REX) on critical equipment.
• Creation and maintenance of technical files for new and existing equipment.

Preferred Skills:

• Qualified to a HNC or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering with a minimum of 5 year’s relevant technical experience within an Engineering environment.
• Ability to identify and solve to root cause, repetitive reliability problems and write maintenance procedures
• Ability to collect and analyse overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) on critical equipment
• CAD experience, full Microsoft suite and ideally Oracle useful.

Pay and Benefits:

• 25 days annual holiday
• Secure on-site parking
• Excellent contributory pension
• Health care cash back plan
• Life assurance
• Company bonus scheme
• 8am-4pm or 8.30am-4.30pm Monday to Friday

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