Project Engineer

Electus Recruitment Solutions; Weymouth; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering recruitment company is seeking a Project Engineer in the Weymouth area. This role involves scheduling, planning, and managing technical activities, ensuring project compliance and quality. Candidates should possess a degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, significant engineering experience, and strong communication skills. The position offers hybrid working and a salary of approximately £50-55k based on experience.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in project engineering with an understanding of engineering principles.
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic, able to work to deadlines and prioritize workloads.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to produce reports and presentations.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering expertise and advice to the project team.
• Produce and maintain project plans and technical documentation.
• Review engineering tasks and initiate necessary corrective actions.
• Engender and maintain a mission zero safety culture throughout the programme delivery team.

Skills

Project Engineering

Installation

Verification

Validation

Documentation

Design Review

Systems Engineering

Education

Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Job description

Overview

My client provides engineering design, delivery and support solutions to clients across various sectors, such as deployable containerised systems to clients' performance and capability requirements. They are seeking a Project Engineer to assist with the scheduling, planning, forecasting, resourcing and managing of technical activities to ensure project technical compliance and quality.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering expertise and advice to the project team.
• Produce and maintain project plans and technical documentation.
• Provide an interface between Project, Engineering Disciplines and suppliers on technical issues, snags and non-conformances.
• Review engineering tasks and initiate necessary corrective actions.
• Participate in equipment installation, commissioning, testing and acceptance to the Trials, Verification and Validation Plan.
• Participate and contribute to Design Review meetings, ensuring compliance with project technical requirements specification.
• Maintain effective communication and relationships with suppliers, monitoring the quality of project deliverables ensuring compliance with any relevant industry standard or project specific quality requirements.
• Conduct investigation of product/service non-conforming products or services, providing detailed reports, evidence of findings and maintaining records.
• Interact with clients, interpreting their needs and requirements, representing them in the field.
• Collaborate with the project manager, other project participants and senior engineers to create more efficient project methods.
• Maintain effective communication and relationships with suppliers.
• Ensure weekly and monthly reporting material is provided and maintained.
• Engender and maintain a mission zero safety culture throughout the programme delivery team and supply chain.
• Travel as required, including significant UK and overseas travel (mostly Europe) to complete supplier inspections and audits and carry out equipment acceptance inspections.

Qualifications

• Degree level in a related discipline (preferably Mechanical or Electrical); active certification in a professional engineering organisation.
• Significant experience in an engineering environment, specifically in a Project Engineering role with an understanding of engineering principles and procedures.
• Knowledge of Systems Engineering and applicable codes, policies, standards and best practices.
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic, able to work to deadlines and prioritise workloads, with strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to produce reports and give presentations.

Role Details

• Project Engineer – Weymouth area, Dorset
• Salary circa £50-55k based on experience
• Hybrid working – significant flexibility offered

Key Skills

Project Engineer, Project Engineering, Installation, Test, Verification, Validation, Project Plans, Project Planning, Documentation, Design Review, Systems Engineering, Codes, Standards, Policies, Defence, Military.

Security / Eligibility

• Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents are required to meet special nationality rules and vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants meeting these criteria may also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.

Additional Information

• Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to high technology industries.
• If you do not hear within 7 working days, your application may be unsuccessful on this occasion. You are free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we will assess suitability at that time.
• This role is a permanent position.