About Us
My client is an independent machinery company providing UK based sales and service for a range of semi and fully automatic packaging machines supplying to the food, beverage, pet, chemical, personal care, home care and automotive industries. They are recruiting for a Project Engineer to join them on site daily.
About The Role
Your role will be the Management and implementation of Autopack new machine projects. Travelling to customer sites is an important part of this role. It will be a combination of Site visits to measure up at the beginning of a project or to check progress of an on going job.
Responsibilities
Management and implementation of all Autopack new machine projects. Including but not limited to;
- Regular visits to customer sites and suppliers for technical training, machine acceptance tests and to clarify any technical and commercial aspects of specific enquiries/orders.
- Attending site project review meetings.
- Using the company's Internal ERP system to progress new machine orders, including raising PO to suppliers.
- Reviewing all enquiry documentation and agreeing specifications.
- Preparing and reviewing detailed tender documentation.
- Preparing layout proposals in conjunction with CAD (with draughtperson)
- Involvement with initial design and build specification.
- Liaising with third parties and sub-suppliers, on site or over teams.
- Organising delivery and collection (Foreign and UK) of machinery.
- Awareness of Health & Safety requirements for installations.
- Supporting the company's ISO Quality System
- Supporting Sales Managers for customer visits and presentations
- Commercially overseeing and managing the revenues and costs of multiple projects and ensuring contract profitability is maintained.
- Commercial tracking of new machine projects.
- Managing project timescales.
- Identifying and invoicing contract variations.
- On site installation planning, management and project completion.
- Utilising Microsoft tools such as Teams, project, word and excel.
- Visit reporting
- Attending exhibitions when required
Skills Required.
- Proven project management experience gained from within a work environment
- Engineering knowledge
- Proven excellent communication skills
- Autocad
- Salesforce CRM
- Simpro ERP system or equivalent
- PRINCE or equivalent
- Logistics import knowledge