PROJECT ENGINEER
MONDAY - FRIDAY: 08.00 - 1600
£40,000 - £50,000 PER ANNUM
People Solutions are looking for a Project Engineer for our client based in Dudley.
Benefits
- Scottish Widows Pension - 5% employer + 5% employee contributions
- Death in Service - 3x salary
- Annual Leave 25 days plus bank holidays
- Annual leave buy and sell (up to a maximum of 5 days)
- Paid leave to attend medical appointments - up to 2 hours - (discretional paid time for medical appointments undergoing investigation at the hospital)
- ADO - opportunity to accrue additional 5 days off each year for hours worked over (sanctioned by Line Manager)
- Professional Membership fees paid
- Employee Assistance Programme (confidential advice)
- Sickness Benefit (after successful completion of probationary period) paid sickness entitlement
- Free parking
- Employee portal that offers discounts, offers, employee assistance programme (after probationary period)
Day to Day Duties
- The purpose of this role is to act as the representative for the commercial project within the production operations
- You will take the lead role in producing and monitoring a viable production plan and time schedule and will facilitate, as necessary actions to maintain performance to that plan
- These actions may include and are not limited to: outsourcing or insourcing activities, arranging contract work support, identifying alternate routings
- In essence you are the representative of the project with responsibility to pull together all the activities to achieve it
- The factory is responsible for achieving the highest possible overall performance of cost, efficiency, adherence and quality
- You will be responsible for the allocation and spend of the production budget as allocated to him/her from the projects under his/her control, thus you are the owner of the manufacturing budget
- The delivery of items, components, or assemblies as appropriate to achieve the agreed project schedule
- Providing such reporting as necessary to ensure sufficient tracking of project progress to achieve on time in full (OTIF) delivery of the project to all its milestones at the requisite profitability
- Functionally they will report through the Master Production Scheduler to the Head of Manufacturing, for projects they will report to the Project Manager for their projects
- Facilitating and leading the development of the project plan and time schedule
- Monitoring the project against the plan and time schedule
- Provide the Project Manager and the Cost Engineer of updated cost forecast for the manufacturing activities on a monthly basis and according to the reporting calendar
- Acting as the liaison between the customer, PM and the production facility as appropriate
- Overseeing and coordinating any installation activities that may be required during the project execution
- Coordinate manufacturing operations with procurement and the project as and when required during the production stages
- Transfer the budget to procurement when an outsourcing decision is made (and vice-versa)
- Leading any customer visits / witness points etc
- Producing project KPI, for example: schedule adherence, EVA, quality, cost, delivery
- Tracking report (MITP and NCR for example) during the project execution
- Ensure timely completion and communication of NCR
- Facilitating activities to address issues with: project budget, design or design change, profitability, quality, timeliness of delivery etc
- Acting as the communication hub for the project
- Joining and supporting production planning meetings, seeking to optimise the schedule and support of the overall operation
Essential Skills
- Graduate level / capability
- Two years in position of responsibility
- Green belt or similar
- Calm and methodical thinker, detail oriented and task focused.
- Very strong communication skills at levels from board to operator.
- Able to produce detailed, but brief project reporting.
- Excel and PowerPoint to a high level
- Able to take the larger view, but always acting in the best interest of the customer
- Always acts with integrity and ethically, holds self and others to account
Desirable Experience
- Two years-experience in similar role
- Manufacturing background
- Power BI
Training
- Company Specific Training is offered and ongoing support
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