Senior Project Engineer

Indra Group Uk & Ireland; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Vor Ort; GBP 55.000 - 85.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Flexitime

Private healthcare

Life Assurance

Pension scheme

Holiday entitlement

Zusammenfassung

Indra Park Air is seeking a Senior Project Engineer to coordinate multiple development projects and ensure delivery milestones are met. You will collaborate with the Project Lead, Product Architect, and engineers to document plans and track progress.

Responsibilities include maintaining quality plans, managing resources, and communicating status to stakeholders while supporting project requirements and risk mitigations.

Qualifikationen

• Degree in an engineering discipline with strong maths/science background.
• Experience in design engineering or product development preferred.
• Multidisciplinary engineering team experience advantageous.

Aufgaben

• Coordinate project activities and development teams to deliver projects.
• Release and maintain key project documents (QP, Product Release Plan, SOW).
• Plan activities with Project Lead and document progress with stakeholders.
• Identify resource needs and manage risks with the technical team.
• Monitor status, report to leads, and ensure on-time delivery.

Kenntnisse

Interpersonal skills

Project planning

Stakeholder communication

Self-motivation

Problem solving

Ausbildung

First-class or 2:1 engineering degree

Tools

MS Project

Jira

SAP / MRP systems

CAD tools

Jobbeschreibung

Indra Park Air work with customers all over the globe to make air travel safer. For over 50 years we’ve been one of the leading producers of VHF and UHF radios, providing the vital link between the ground and the air for passenger, freight and military aircraft.

The reasons behind our success are simple and won’t change. First, we work harder for the customer than the rest. We take time to truly know their needs and create the right product for them. We train them how to use it, we won’t let our equipment be deployed until every detail is right, and then we provide the best care and service for all our products.

At Indra Park Air we stay the best by looking to the future – to new requirements and new possibilities. A radio remains a radio, but we never stop thinking about how we can improve it, and how it can offer more to our customers. It’s no wonder that we are one of only 2% of companies worldwide to hold PLATINUM Level in Investors in People Accreditation.

At Indra Park Air, our values guide everything we do, from developing industry-leading technology to supporting our customers around the world.

Innovation

Our capacity for innovation, cutting-edge solutions, and specialised team of professionals enable us to drive a safer, more connected future through technology.

Trust

We work with strength, commitment, and reliability, delivering quality solutions to build trust with customers, employees, partners, investors, and society.

Connection

We harness the power of collaboration, connect ideas and solutions, and adapt to our customers' needs, supporting them on the path to a better future.

Foresight

We anticipate future needs to make the world safer and more connected, transforming our experience and knowledge into solutions for a better tomorrow.

As Senior Project Engineer you coordinate and organise project activities and the development team to deliver internal and 3rd development project and report status.

What you will do:

• Ensure key documents are released and kept up to date, such as Project Quality Plan, Product Release Plan, Statement Of Work
• Work with the Project Lead to Plan and document project activities with support from Project Owner and Product Architect
• Identify human resource requirements
• Schedule activities to meet roadmap commitments. Track task completion and ensure tasks are kept upto date by engineers.
• Understand and document risks and their mitigations, with support from the technical team
• Liaise with the project Lead and team members to understand, monitor and report project status
• Assist the project Lead to deliver the project
• Support the generation and documentation of project requirements
• At the beginning of the project ensure all equipment required throughout the project is identified, and is available to the project team when it is needed
• Manage ordering of prototype PCBs, metalwork and other items ensuring these are available when needed
• Promptly elevate any issues preventing the team from achieving planned progress
• Organise appropriate review meetings and chair those delegated by the Product Engineering Manager
• Perform role of Project Engineer for several concurrent and/or large projects
• Manage and coordinate outsourced development projects with the 3rd party provider, reporting status, ensuring any internal dependencies are provided on time and loan equipment is arranged
• Drive the delivery of Project roadmap activities and support resource planning activities for the department managers.
• Support the department and department manager on related departmental activities.
• Keep internal stakeholders outside of Product Engineering up to date. Programme Management, Procurement and Operations.

Accountabilities:

• Work independently without guidance or direction
• Use best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to lead products/services or process improvements
• Identify, research, develop and drive forward ways of improving company technical performance
• Regularly monitor progress against goals and reorganise/rewrite plans to deal with change

Commercial Awareness:

• Understand how all engineering tasks impact non-engineering internal and external customers

Quality and Ethics:

• Demonstrate flexibility and a positive attitude to changing priorities or direction
• Demonstrate excellent team working skills working collaboratively in own department, across the company and with external customers, suppliers and agencies
• Comply with company and departmental procedures
• Adopt a quality approach and foster a quality culture
• Contribute to process improvements
• Show the highest level of commitment to delivering exceptional customer service
• Understand and conform to the standards contained in the Company Standards of Business Ethics

Requirements

Qualifications

• First-class or upper-second-class (2:1) degree, or equivalent qualification, in a relevant technical or engineering discipline.
• Strong academic background in Mathematics and Science, demonstrated through A Level or equivalent qualifications.

Knowledge and/or practical experience in some of the following areas:

• The full product development lifecycle, from concept and design through to verification, manufacture and product introduction.
• Project planning and management tools, such as MS Project, Jira or equivalent.
• MRP/ERP systems, such as SAP or equivalent.
• Communications and modulation techniques.
• Electronic circuit design, prototyping and development.
• Analogue, digital and RF electronics.
• FPGA design and firmware development.
• Software design and development methodologies.
• Embedded software design and implementation.
• Programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Python, HTML and JavaScript.
• Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques.
• Basic network technologies and communication protocols.
• Computer-Aided Design (CAD) of mechanical parts and assemblies.
• Introduction of new products into a manufacturing environment.

Candidates are not expected to have experience in every area listed above; a broad technical foundation and the ability to develop knowledge in new areas are important.

Work Experience

• Previous experience in a design engineering or product development role.
• Experience working as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team would be advantageous.

Personal Skills and Abilities

• Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to plan ahead, identify potential issues and take appropriate action to support long-term project objectives.
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage competing tasks and deliver against project objectives.
• Highly self-motivated, adaptable and positive, with a willingness to take ownership of tasks and responsibilities.
• Practical, hands-on approach to engineering and problem solving.
• Customer-focused, with an understanding of customer requirements and the ability to develop effective engineering solutions.

Benefits

• Flexitime and core hours – 37.5 hrs a week, core hrs between 0930-1500
• Enhanced Holiday – 25 days plus bank holidays
• Enhanced Pension Scheme – up to 8% company contribution
• Life Assurance
• Liberty Days - you can request up to 3 days of your annual leave ‘on the day’
• Buying and Selling Holidays
• Long service and retirement awards
• Private healthcare
• Flu vaccinations
• Cycle to work scheme
• Subsidised staff canteen
• Free parking
• Training
• Continuous Learning
• Employee Assistance Programme and Wellbeing Services
  

Indra Park Air is an equal employment opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, origin, disability or other characteristics protected by law.