Project Engineers (6 Months FTC)

Db Def; Huddersfield; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday (including bank hols)

Pension scheme up to 8% employer

Life Assurance up to 5x salary

Health care cash plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

DB Defence in Huddersfield is seeking a Project Engineer to drive delivery of a major marine contract. You’ll manage project plans, risks and cross‑functional teams to keep milestones on track.

You’ll coordinate with SAP-enabled processes, MS Office and MS Project, ensuring KPIs and traceability, with clear escalation of risks and delays. The role offers development opportunities within an inclusive, security‑conscious environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience operating as a Project Engineer, Planning Engineer, Programme Engineer or similar.
• Proficiency in SAP software is essential.
• Experience in a manufacturing/engineering environment is beneficial.
• Strong MS Office and MS Project skills are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate project plans, tools and methodologies with customer-facing Project Managers to hit milestones and longer-term objectives.
• Control changes to project scope and schedules, assess impacts and coordinate actions to minimise disruption.
• Coordinate internal functions and external suppliers, maintaining accountability for plan adherence and delivery.
• Lead internal manufacturing meetings and provide clear project updates, escalating risks and delays where appropriate.
• Maintain KPIs, SAP records and part traceability, coordinating customer witness points per ITP requirements.

Skills

Project Engineer

Planning Engineer

Programme Engineer

Stakeholder management

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Project

Tools

SAP

Job description

Are you looking for a new opportunity where your project engineering expertise can make a real impact? As a Project Engineer, you’ll play a key role in delivering a major marine contract, managing project plans, mitigating risks and bringing teams together to keep delivery on track.

About the Role:

• Driving alignment with customer-facing Project Managers across project plans, tools and methodologies, with a strong focus on achieving monthly milestones and maintaining longer-term project objectives.
• Controlling changes to project scope and schedules, assessing impacts and coordinating appropriate actions to minimise disruption and maintain project delivery.
• Coordinating internal business functions and external suppliers, building effective relationships and ensuring key stakeholders remain accountable for plan adherence and delivery.
• Leading internal manufacturing meetings and acting as the central point of contact for manufacturing, providing clear project updates and escalating risks, issues and delays where appropriate.
• Maintaining project KPIs, SAP records and manufactured part traceability, while coordinating customer witness points in accordance with ITP requirements.

About You:

• Demonstrable experience operating as a Project Engineer, Planning Engineer, Programme Engineer or similar.
• Advanced proficiency with using SAP software is an essential requirement.
• Experience within a manufacturing and/or engineering environment would be highly beneficial.
• Strong capabilities in using Microsoft Office, including Microsoft Project experience would be desirable.
• Ability to build effective working relationships with internal stakeholders, coordinating activities across departments to ensure project milestones and deadlines are achieved.

Why DBD?

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Flexible working agreement that allows you to accrue up to an additional 12 days annual leave per annum
• Defined Pension Scheme – Up to 8% employer contribution
• Life Assurance – Up to 5x basic salary (depending on contribution to pension scheme)
• Health Care Cash Plan – provides reimbursement for healthcare appointments, including dental, physiotherapy, and other eligible treatments.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – Access to confidential support and advice on personal, financial and wellbeing matters.
• Training Opportunities – We invest in our people through our Gear Academy, offering product, service, legal, ethics, and compliance training, alongside external development opportunities to help you build your skills and progress your career.
• Career Development – Whether you are joining as an apprentice, a graduate or taking the next step in your career journey, we will support you in developing your career at every step of the way. We are proud to see our people develop and regularly promote internally.

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

Please be aware that many roles at DB Defence are subject to security and export control restrictions. These requirements may mean that factors such as your nationality, previous nationalities and place of birth can affect your eligibility for certain roles within the organisation.

All applicants must, as a minimum, be able to achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance. Many roles also require a higher level of National Security Vetting. Depending on the level of vetting required, applicants will typically need to have been continuously resident in the UK for a minimum of 10 years to enable meaningful security checks to be completed.