Project Engineering Manager

Carbon, Inc.; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering company based in the United Kingdom is seeking a Project Engineering Manager to oversee diverse project and product development activities. You will lead a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality project deliverables from conception through fabrication and installation. The role offers hybrid working options, a supportive culture, and is ideal for candidates with a strong engineering background and leadership experience in the process industry. If you are looking to develop within a dynamic team, this is the opportunity for you.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays

Private Healthcare

Health Cash Plan

Income Protection

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Engineering Degree level qualification, ideally in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering.
• Chartered Engineer status preferred.
• Experienced in an Engineering supervisory/management role.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead a team of multi-discipline engineering resources.
• Review and provide Quality Assurance of Engineering deliverables.
• Monitor Engineering progress and develop recovery plans where required.

Skills

Team leadership

Problem-solving

Budget control

Communication

Quality Assurance

Education

Engineering Degree (Mechanical or Chemical)

Job description

Overview

The Project Engineering Manager will be technically responsible for the Engineering work on a variety of Project and Product development activities by allocating resources, supervising and directing preparation of Project deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead a team of multi-discipline engineering (internal and external) resources to coordinate production of Engineering deliverables in accordance with the Project Plan.
• Review and provide Quality Assurance of the Engineering phase deliverables through to the fabrication and installation phases
• Formulate resolutions to technically challenging and/or high-profile issues with support from discipline Engineering and effective communication with clients, subcontractors and senior management.
• Monitor the Engineering progress and address shortfalls, developing recovery plans where required and ensuring plans are implemented. Provides feedback to Project Managers and Engineering discipline supervisors as and when required of progress.
• Chair Project Review Meetings (PRM) and ensure that associated reports are compiled and distributed accordingly.
• Generate and review the Invitations To Bid (ITB) documents submitted in the Proposals stage.
• Prepare/reviews resource planning estimates and provides input to the project delivery
• Identity a clear scope of work and supervises preparations of the Technical Document Register (TDR)
• Responsible for planning/scheduling all Engineering activities and resource planning. Quantifies the total number of Engineering deliverables, resource allocation and format of delivery and other requirements for execution of the work. Provides necessary regular Project controls/reporting input.
• Oversight of approval and release of all Engineering deliverables ensuring appropriate levels of checking, approval and quality across all disciplines.
• Provide support to Procurement including long lead items: approve technical requisitions, Vendor Documentation Reviews and Technical Bid Evaluations to ensure design conformance.
• Ensure compatibility and conformance with client specifications and recommends cost effective improvements to equipment selection/specifications within the scope of client specifications and requirements.
• Utilise experience to input to Engineering and wider Carbon Clean team to improve current/future performance - be part of our continuous improvement expertise.
• Building trusted and credible working relationships both within and outside the company.
• To be successful in this role you should have a combination of the below knowledge, skills, and experience:

Qualifications

• Engineering Degree level qualification, ideally in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering.
• Chartered Engineer (Preferred)
• Excellent understanding of the multidisciplinary Engineering involved in process plant (e.g gas processing) design, fabrication, and operations.
• Experienced in the integration of occupational and process safety management into design, fabrication, and operations.
• Experience in an Engineering supervisory/management role, managing both teams of Engineers and external contractors.
• Comfortable leading and managing an experienced team of discipline Engineers.
• Experienced working with budgets, including demonstrable involvement in budget control.
• Ability to train team members in new skills and competencies.
• Strong problem-solving skills, decision making, whilst being proactive in achieving positive results.
• Experience of working in plant operations or interfacing with operations personnel through design in the process industry.
• Good leadership experience is essential.

What we offer

• The opportunity to continue to develop both personally and professionally, in our rapidly growing company
• A brilliant company culture that encourages initiative, collaboration, and positivity at work
• Great office environment in our new London HQ, close to the South Bank, and Waterloo, Blackfriars and London Bridge stations
• Hybrid working - with the flexibility to work from home for up to 3 days a week

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Private Healthcare (family cover available for all colleagues)
• Health Cash Plan
• Income Protection and Critical Illness Cover
• Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programme
• Generous pension contribution - minimum of 5% contributed by the company
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Employee Perks scheme
• Support towards professional qualification and memberships

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunities