Project Engineer

Boeing

Yeovil

Hybrid

GBP 55,000 - 75,000

Full time

31 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension 10% employer contribution

Company paid BUPA Medical Plan

Holiday entitlement 23 days + UK bank

Long-term sickness cover

Job summary

Boeing in Yeovil is seeking a Project Engineer to support the Rotary Wing Enterprise (RWE) programme. The role reports to the BDUK VL Project Engineering Manager and involves coordinating engineering activities, developing SOWs, and ensuring requirements are well managed.

The position is primarily based in Yeovil with Bristol as a secondary location and offers hybrid working. Travel to other sites may be required, and progress relies on engineering leadership alignment and timely approvals.

Qualifications

Engineering, systems engineering or related field degree with requirements management experience.
Knowledge of Chinook and/or Apache rotorcraft platforms.
Experience in project planning and management and strong SE knowledge.

Responsibilities

Coordinate engineering teams across multiple skill areas.
Develop and maintain SOWs for the RWE programme requirements.
Champion systems engineering practice with traceability and quality.
Work with leadership to obtain approvals to ensure continuity of tasks.
Coordinate RWE future state and proposal development activities with milestones.
Identify metrics and report status to VL programme leadership.
Compare actual results to baselines to assess performance and lessons learned.
Plan, identify and coordinate resources for the RWE programme and status reviews.
Respond to SOW changes and negotiate modifications to deliverables, resources, costs and schedules.
Provide technical coordination for project deliverables and drive best practices.

Skills

Requirements management

Project planning

Systems engineering

IT skills

Customer facing

Rotorcraft knowledge

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

Job Description

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Job Description

This post is for a Project Engineer reporting to the BDUK Vertical Lift (VL) Project Engineering Manager.

The role will assist the BDUK VL Chief Programme Engineers (CPEs) by supporting the delivery of the Rotary Wing Enterprise (RWE) programme objectives, ensuring that assigned activities are appropriately coordinated, managed and reported.

This role is primarily based at Yeovil, with Bristol offered as a secondary work location.

The role will involve occasional travel to other BDUK and customer sites, and options exist for hybrid working.

Position Responsibilities:

Providing coordination to engineering teams representing multiple skill areas, which may include internal and external resources and customers.
Developing and maintaining internal and external Statements of Work (SOWs) to satisfy current and emerging RWE programme requirements.
Championing systems engineering best practice in the management of the RWE programme requirements hierarchy, ensuring that requirements are of a good quality with an associated compliance verification strategy, are allocated appropriately, and have adequately traceability between the different requirement tiers.
Working with programme leadership to obtain required approvals to ensure business continuity for tasks relating to the proposed delivery of the RWE contracted service.
Coordinating RWE future state and ‘additional tasking’ project proposal development activities, and ensuring the engineering leadership team are aware of associated proposal gate milestones and objectives.
Identifying metrics and reporting to VL programme leadership to provide a status of functional performance.
Comparing actual results to baseline plans to assess project performance, efficiencies, productivity and lessons learned.
Planning, identifying, and coordinating resources required to support the RWE programme through the management of functional resource requirements and reporting into status reviews.
Responding to changes to SOWs, assessing the impact and negotiating proposed changes to determine modifications to deliverables, resources, costs and schedules.
Providing technical coordination for the development and execution of the project deliverables.
The tailoring and application of engineering initiatives, best practices and quality processes.
Contributing to Continuous Improvement.
Risk, Issues and Opportunities management.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

A Degree level (or equivalent) qualification in Engineering, Systems Engineering, or an engineering related field, with experience in requirements management for systems and / or services.
Knowledge of the Chinook and/or Apache rotorcraft platforms.
Experience in Project Planning and Management; Excellent SE knowledge and skills, Good IT skills; Excellent Customer Facing Skills

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

Registration with the Engineering Council as an Incorporated or Chartered Engineer (IEng or CEng), or the ability to demonstrate a credible route to IEng or CEng accreditation.
Knowledge of Military Airworthiness Authority (MAA) Regulatory Articles.

Relocation:

This position does not offer relocation. Candidates must live in the immediate area or relocate at their own expense.

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

What Boeing offers you:

The Boeing benefits package goes above and beyond, focusing on your physical, emotional, financial and social well-being. Here’s a snapshot of what we offer:

Competitive salary and annual incentive plans
Continuous learning - you’ll develop the approach and skills to navigate whatever comes next
Success as defined by you - we’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way
An inclusive culture - you’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs
Excellent Adoption and Parental leave options
23 days plus UK public holidays and a Winter Break between Christmas and New Year
Pension Plan with up to 10% employer contribution
Company paid BUPA Medical Plan
Short Term Sickness: 100% pay for the first 26 weeks
Long Term Sickness: 66.67% of annual salary from 27th week
6x annual salary life insurance
Learning Together Programme to support your on-going personal and career development
Access to Boeing’s Well Being Programs, tool and incentives