Project Engineer

Recruit Mint Ltd; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site six months probation

25 days annual leave

Company pension

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Employee reward and recognition scheme

Wellbeing services

Professional development

Job summary

Recruit Mint Ltd. seeks a technically-minded Project Engineer to keep complex projects on track from requirements to delivery for mission-critical equipment. You will coordinate activities across a busy product engineering team and help steer development to meet timelines.

The role involves managing documentation, risk, prototypes, and collaboration with technical authorities and third-party providers, offering genuine ownership of project delivery in a technical environment.

Qualifications

• Requires a degree in a technical subject and a strong understanding of the full product development lifecycle.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills to coordinate across multiple teams.
• Ability to anticipate challenges and plan strategically to meet long-term objectives.
• Experience in a design engineering role is desirable.
• Embedded software design and programming experience is desirable (C/C++, Python, etc.).
• Knowledge of CAD for mechanical components or FPGA firmware is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and organize project activities to ensure delivery within agreed timeframes.
• Generate and maintain essential project documentation.
• Monitor and report project status with the technical authority.
• Assist in project requirement generation and documentation.
• Schedule activities to align with the product roadmap.
• Identify and document project risks and mitigate them.
• Manage prototypes and ensure equipment availability.
• Organize and lead project review meetings.
• Handle multiple concurrent projects to keep operations running smoothly.
• Build strong relationships with third-party providers for timely coordination.

Skills

Project coordination

Communication skills

Strategic planning

Design engineering

Embedded software

C/C++

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Project Engineer

Keep complex technical projects on track, from requirements through to delivery, on products that have to work when it matters.

This is a Project Engineer role with an established manufacturer, coordinating project delivery across a busy product engineering team.

As a Project Engineer you will coordinate project activities and help steer development teams to deliver both internal and external projects on time, for an established manufacturer of mission-critical communications equipment for the aviation and defence sectors. Working within the product engineering department, you will keep projects aligned to the wider roadmap, manage documentation, risk and prototypes, and work closely with technical authorities and third-party providers to keep everything moving. It is a role that suits an organised, technically-minded engineer who can hold several projects at once and bring order to complexity. If you want genuine ownership of project delivery in a technical environment, this is a role with real scope to grow.

Job Responsibilities

• Coordinating and organising project activities to ensure delivery within agreed timeframes
• Generating and maintaining essential project documentation
• Monitoring and reporting project status in collaboration with the technical authority
• Assisting in project requirement generation and documentation
• Scheduling activities to keep projects aligned with the product roadmap
• Identifying and documenting project risks and implementing mitigation strategies
• Managing prototypes and ensuring equipment availability
• Organising and leading project review meetings
• Handling multiple concurrent projects and keeping operations running smoothly
• Building strong relationships with third-party providers to ensure timely coordination

Skills and Experience

• A degree, ideally a 1st or 2:1, in a relevant technical subject
• A good understanding of the full product development lifecycle
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills, able to communicate effectively across all levels
• The ability to anticipate challenges and plan strategically to meet long-term objectives
• Experience in a design engineering role, which is desirable
• Knowledge of any of the following, which is desirable: communications modulation techniques, electronic circuit design and prototyping, FPGA firmware design, digital signal processing, or CAD for mechanical components
• Programming experience in languages such as C, C#, C++, Python, HTML or JavaScript, which is desirable
• Proven capability in embedded software design and implementation, which is desirable

Pay and Benefits

• A salary of up to £55,000
• On-site full-time for the first 6 months, with flexible working thereafter
• Monday to Friday
• 25 days annual leave
• Company pension scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Employee reward and recognition scheme
• Employee assistance programme and wellbeing services
• Continued professional development, including professional memberships and registration where applicable