Vanderlande
Project Leader Engineering
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Job Title
Project Leader Engineering
Job Description
Reports to: Project Manager Engineering
Location: London - Heathrow
Contract Type: Permanent
Introduction to role
The UK Engineering team works as an integrated partner of the Worldwide Vanderlande Engineering team, consisting of over 1000 engineers from all automated handling disciplines. In the challenging and fast-paced position of Project Leader Engineering, you will have the opportunity to make a significant contribution to the growth and continued success of Vanderlande.
Role Responsibilities
An Engineer joining the UK team has the opportunities and potential to join a wide and diverse range of projects, we are looking for a dedicated Engineer with the passion and willingness to develop solutions using the latest automated tools and products, the ability to follow challenging standards and overall to add value to our customers at home and abroad.
Your responsibilities and activities will be:
- Managing the Planning of engineering projects by being a stakeholder manager and creating and owning the engineering project plan
- Technical leading of internal and external teams to successful project execution
- Controlling the budget of engineering projects proactively by identifying risk and opportunities and evaluating engineering scope and modifications, including an ongoing reporting
- Managing the Technical Solution, including being responsible for the delivery of (sub-)systems with the right quality by acting as a technical business partner to customers and other external parties
- Execution of health and safety analysis and ensuring implementation thereof in the design
- Continuously improving upon own and others project management processes, including community development and best practices to support better individual and collective engineering project delivery
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Role Qualification and Skills
- A strong team player and effective communicator
- A lateral thinker with a wide depth of field (able to see the big picture)
- Relevant Degree in mechanical, electrical or controls engineering
- Appropriate years of experience managing complex engineering projects of demanding customers in a dynamic and system-critical environment including the technical lead of multidiscipline teams
- Qualified Project Management knowledge combined with proficient expertise within engineering projects, ideally within material handling systems (Electrical/Mechanical/LLC/HLC/Safety)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills combined with proficient usage of MS Office
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What we offer
- 28 days annual leave (excluding public holidays)
- Bupa Medical Cover
- YuLife – Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers
- A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression.
- Cycle to work scheme
- Pension with Aviva
- Access to Achievers an award-winning recognition platform that inspires to recognise your coworkers Where points are awarded that can be exchanged for a range of goods and discounts.
Diversity & Inclusion
Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age marital status or disability status. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, we are always happy to discuss or explore, any reasonable adjustments can be made to support your application.
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