Project Engineer

Safran; Coven Heath; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company is seeking a Project Engineer in Coven Heath to monitor project schedules, costs, and quality. The ideal candidate will have a technical engineering background, excellent stakeholder management skills, and an analytical mindset. Responsibilities include supporting project management activities, coordinating teams, and generating resource reports. This position offers the chance to work in a dynamic and international environment, making a significant impact in the aerospace and defense industry.

Qualifications

• Technical engineering background is required.
• Good understanding of the product lifecycle is advantageous.
• Knowledge of engineering resource management is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the delivery of projects to schedule, cost & quality.
• Provide inputs to project management activities.
• Support technology development and compliance to schedule.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Stakeholder management

Flexibility and adaptability

MS Office skills

Job description

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets.

Safran is in the 2nd place in the aerospace and defense industry in TIME magazine's "World's best companies 2024" ranking.

Safran Electronics & Defense offers its customers onboard intelligence solutions allowing them to understand the environment, reduce mental load and guarantee a trajectory, even in critical situations, in all environments : on land, at sea, in the sky or space. The company harnesses the expertise of its 13,000 employees towards these three functions : observe, decide and guide, for the civil and military markets.

An exciting opportunity for a Project Engineer has arisen to be based in Wolverhampton on the High Lift Value Stream. The position requires a highly motivated, high achieving individual reporting to the Technical Lead to take responsibility for monitoring schedule and costs on key running projects, technology and current engineering activities.

We're looking for an analytical individual who demonstrates exceptional motivation, a continuous improvement mindset, flexibility and adaptability to change. The successful candidate will have a technical engineering background, possess excellent stakeholder management skills & be solution focused.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor the delivery of projects to schedule, cost & quality
• Provide inputs to planning, estimation and project management activities including financial resource forecasts. Support to internal and external stakeholders, with focused presentations and meetings
• Support to technology development, bids & proposals, projects and other running activities : resourcing and compliance to schedule, review programs actuals and charged labour on a regular basis, identify and report Risks & Opportunities in a timely manner
• Generate Value Stream resource requirement report and harmonise resource allocation across projects and with the other Value Streams across the business
• Support Engineering forecast monthly reviews with Engineering and Finance leadership
• Co-ordination of a cross functional team to ensure project execution

Essential skills

• Good MS Office® skills, to analyse, condense and present complex data
• General understanding of the product lifecycle (concept definition, qualification, launch, aftermarket support)
• Excellent stakeholder management skills

Desirable skills

• Knowledge of engineering resource management and program overview to forecast, including offshore and indirect engineering teams
• Ability to work with multiple discipline projects
• Attitude to fit an international, and multi-cultural environment
• A team player and effective communicator
• Able to interact at all levels with technical teams and / or project leaders
• Good understanding of the EVMS (Earned Value Management System) and related monitoring and harmonization activities