Job Description

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Description:

Job Title: Project Engineer

Location: Bristol, United Kingdom

Job ID: IMS20231204-99537

Applications will ONLY be considered for candidates who are eligible to work in the United Kingdom.

Role:

We are looking for an experienced Project Engineer to join our team based in Bristol.

Key Responsibilities:

The Project Engineer is a member of the Project Leadership Team, complementing the Project Manager and Technical Manager. This Role is internally focussed, combining engineering judgement and leadership with the ability to co-ordinate, plan, control and deliver a project.

• Daily tasking and co-ordination of the engineering team, ensuring the team is progressing as required against the plan and issues are identified and if required resolved through collaboration with the project leadership team (including the Project Manager and Technical Manager).
• Engineering Management and problem solving \xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\x93 ensuring that the team is following the agreed project delivery lifecycle and any problems are identified, understood and resolved.
• Primarily responsible for developing an achievable Schedule which is agreed with all parties and approved for the team to work against. The schedule should include Timescales (tasks with completion dates) and Costs (labour and materials) whilst considering Scope (all deliverables) constraints, negotiating if these do not align.
• Establish and maintain the overall project plan/schedule (Gantt) using MS Project and project deliverables list (In co-ordination with Project Planner if available) using MS Excel, Sharepoint or other appropriate tools
• Ensuring Time recording is accurate against activities on the project
• Provides reporting to the Leadership Team (including ETC, EAC and forecast completion/delivery dates)
• Extracts resource requirements from the plan and provides demand through the project managers to facilitate resourcing allocation meetings
• Documents and controls the baseline for the project
• Controls Risk associated with the project through: Identification; Documentation; Impact Analysis; Planning and Execution of Mitigations
• Facilitates Change through

• providing estimated effort and schedule impact
• incorporating approved change into project schedule and technical baseline
• co-ordinating the change process
• Conducting Lessons Learned evaluations to continually improve approaches and seek efficiencies

Knowledge, Skills And Experience:

The Candidate will be expected to have the following knowledge skills and experience

• Project Management, Technical Management or System Engineering Background
• Experiences with delivering Defence Contracts
• Understanding and experience of Engineering lifecycles, specifically V-Model Lifecycle
• Experience and knowledge of Systems Engineering disciplines such as Verification and Validation methods, the importance of contractual compliance and system or systems integration.
• Proven Leadership Skills
• People co-ordination, excellent communication skills, motivation and tasking
• Technical understanding of the product under development
• Proficient with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Applications and Microsoft Sharepoint

Benefits: In addition to a competitive salary, we provide a range of flexible benefits including:

• Auto Enrolment Retirement Savings Plan (up to 7% employer contribution)
• Group Life Assurance, Private Medical Insurance and Income Protection
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and holiday buy/sell
• Discounts with travel, major retailers, family days out and much more
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free parking (subject to availability)
• Free mortgage advice
• Plus, a range of other flexible benefits

L3Harris Technologies