Engineering Project Manager

On behalf of our client who is situated in the heart of Worcestershire, providing Engineering assistances and solutions to many exciting sectors.

Due to increased demand within the department, our client now has a requirement for an Engineering Project Manager.

Provide dedicated and professional project management, ensuring total customer satisfaction and target margins are delivered.

To be responsible for the delivery of strategic and tactical activities for implementing operational initiatives, designed to exceed Customer expectations of product performance, quality, cost and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-Day responsibility of the Production Engineering, and Design Departments, ensuring effective application of technical disciplines, governance, and applicable requirements
  
  
• Working collaboratively with internal and external key stakeholders, providing technical support in pursuance of best-in-class products and business practices, to meet with Customers’ expectations
  
  
• Take an active role in the project management cycle, in all aspects of product realisation and manufacture
  
  
• Reporting and delivery against Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), relevant to the Engineering Department
  
  
• Actively promote and contribute to the business ethos of manufacturing to cost, on time, and to the highest quality standards
  
  
• Support the Operations Team, with their responsibility to promote best practices of safe working, quality, and environmental consideration(s)
  
  
• Promote Continual Improvement, across all manufacturing related areas and functions of the business
  
  
• Proactively engage and demonstrate a strategic approach to the development of Business Systems, and personnel
  
  
• Embrace overall responsibility for Engineering activities across the business, providing guidance and mentoring to the Engineering Team with emphasis aimed at ensuring their ongoing development
  
  
• Participate with, and where appropriate, lead with Design Reviews, actively promoting adherence to applicable design and regulatory requirements, ensuring these are understood and embedded into the manufacturing processes, and product(s)
  
  
• Contribute with the creation of best-practice manufacturing processes, strategy, policies, and procedures to aid and improve business performance(s)
  
  
• Act as point of contact for Customers during appropriate engineering phase(s) of projects, ensuring engineering drawings, BOM’s, delivery schedules, and Customer specifications are managed in-line with applicable requirements
  
  
• Support the business in optimising applicable revenue-streams, meeting Customer delivery and quality requirements
  
  
• Evaluate the challenges faced by the business, acting to mitigate risks, and develop opportunities
  
  
• Contribute to overall business strategy and annual budgetary requirements
  
  
• Initiate and develop creative and innovative, engineering solutions and assist to develop manufacturing processes for delivering to Customers’ needs
  
  
• Identify, report, and address manufacturing concerns and issues, collaboratively with relevant parties
  
  
• Work cross-functionally with departments, for the successful transition of new products from design through to production, including short lead time prototypes
  
  
• Oversee and support the Production Engineers to produce and maintain associated documentation such as Process Instructions, Test Instructions and BOM contents for all product(s)
  
  
• Ensure robust validation processes for BOM structure, are applied prior to release via the MRP System
  
  
• Facilitate the ECN system, ensuring its governance to support configuration management
  
  ESSENTIAL
  
  

• Minimum of 2 years current experience within a similar position, industry and engineering environment
  
  
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of working with BS EN ISO standards, (BS 8888)
  
  
• Effective communication skills
  
  
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings
  
  
• A strong background and experience of document and data control
  
  
• Quality aware and experience of working within a Customer focused environment
  
  
• Prioritise and perform duties whilst under minimum supervision
  
  
• Experience with detailed report writing, WI’s, PI’s, QA, and Safety
  
  
• Strong IT skills, data entry, with attention to detail and accuracy
  
  
• Proactive and engaging to work efficiently to deadlines to achieve targets
  
  
• Excellent team player with a proactive hands-on approach
  
  
• Flexibility to performing other tasks if required, and willing to learn new skills
  
  
• Strong problem-solving skills and confident to make informed, evidence-based decisions
  
  
• Demonstrable leadership with emphasis to staff mentoring and development
  
  
• Experience of supporting Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) investment programmes, optimising working capital usage and minimising waste through the development of a continual improvement initiatives, encompassing lean principles and clear strategic development
  
  DESIRABLE
  
  
• Qualified / current experience of using Lean Six Sigma
  
  
• Planning experience, NPI, and product life cycle
  
  
• Experience of working within the guidelines of BS EN ISO 9001, 14001, 45001-(18001), 3834, EN 15085
  
  
• Experience of working within industries of Defence, Aerospace, Rail, and application of Def-Stan / Mil-Std, and RIS
  
  
• A member of, or working towards membership of a relevant engineering institution (IMechE, IET etc)
  
  Package:
  
  
• Monday – Friday (subject to change depending on business requirements)
  
  
• Core Hours 07:45 – 17:00 Monday – Thursday and 07:45 – 13:00 on a Friday.
  
  
• 39 hours of work per week. You may be expected to work any additional hours depending on business requirements.
  
  
• Company pension.
  
  
• Cycle to work scheme.
  
  
• Free parking.
  
  
• On-site parking.
  
  
• 20 days holiday – Bank holidays paid.
  
  If this Engineering Project Manager role sounds like the right opportunity for you then please call to discuss further or email me at the address supplied