Senior Project Engineer — Packaging & Automation

JBT Marel Corporation; Adlington; Presencial; GBP 60.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Auto Coding Solutions in Daresbury seeks a Senior Project Engineer to lead ACS customer projects from handover to close-out, coordinating internal teams and third parties to deliver on time and within scope. You will manage governance, risk, change control and commercial performance while maintaining strong customer relationships and clear project leadership.

The role requires strong planning, risk management and experience in software/automation projects, with willingness to travel to customer

Formación

• Strong project management capability in software, controls, automation, systems integration or technical project environment.
• Strong planning, organisation, risk management and change-control skills.
• Able to facilitate cross-functional decisions without assuming ownership of functional evidence or commercial approval.
• Able to coordinate multiple teams and maintain progress without direct line authority.
• Commercial awareness, including project cost, scope, resource and schedule impacts.
• Confident communicating with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Able to challenge unclear requirements, incomplete information and unrealistic delivery commitments.
• Competent in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word and wider Microsoft 365 applications.
• Able to travel to customer sites when required.

Responsabilidades

• Manage ACS customer projects from order handover through planning, delivery, go-live support and close-out.
• Prepare and maintain project plans, milestones, resource requirements, customer actions and delivery dependencies as required.
• Coordinate internal and external project teams, including third parties and customers.
• Monitor progress against scope, cost and schedule, resolving issues and escalating risks where required.
• Manage standard and complex projects using a level of control appropriate to project risk.
• Maintain clear project records, decisions, actions and supporting information.
• Lead project governance following order, ensuring reviews take place at the required project stages.
• Maintain visibility of project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and outstanding actions.
• Assess and control changes affecting scope, cost, delivery dates, technical requirements, resources or customer commitments.
• Ensure governance decisions, exceptions, actions, owners and due dates are recorded and followed up.
• Escalate material risks, missing information or decisions outside agreed authority.
• Act as the main project contact for the customer following order handover.
• Coordinate customer information, site readiness, access, production downtime, training and acceptance requirements.
• Provide clear project updates covering progress, decisions, risks, actions and changes.
• Follow up actions and maintain information flow across internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Manage customer expectations and lift dependencies or blockers affecting delivery.
• Monitor project hours, costs, site days, follow-up visits and commercial performance.
• Maintain records of scope changes, variation requests and commercial impacts.
• Coordinate customer acceptance and transition of the live system into Support.
• Review project performance, including the reasons and costs of follow-up visits.
• Complete project close-out and ensure remaining actions have clear ownership.
• Hold project lessons-learned reviews and record findings in the central log.

Conocimientos

Project management

Planning

Risk management

Change-control

Stakeholder management

Commercial awareness

Customer communication

Cross-functional coordination

MS 365

Travel readiness

Herramientas

Microsoft Outlook

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Microsoft 365

Descripción del empleo

Auto Coding Solutions in Daresbury seeks a Senior Project Engineer to lead ACS customer projects from handover to close-out, coordinating internal teams and third parties to deliver on time and within scope. You will manage governance, risk, change control and commercial performance while maintaining strong customer relationships and clear project leadership.

The role requires strong planning, risk management and experience in software/automation projects, with willingness to travel to customer