AM Global
Senior Project Engineer
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About the Company
My client is an established market leader in the design, manufacture, and supply of subsea cable protection systems for the Oil & Gas and Renewable Energy industry. We have a focus on all areas of our products including concept feed and R&D, detailed design and engineering, manufacture and testing, project management, client training, and offshore installation support. Our dynamic and fast-paced culture has ensured our market-leading position and highly renowned brand. They operate in Newton Aycliffe site and houses around 100,000 sq. foot capacity, employs around 100 staff, and generates around £20m revenue.
Job Description and Overall Aims
The role requires someone who is ambitious, motivated, and who is keen to contribute to a dynamic, fast-paced project environment. You should possess a strong working knowledge of Senior Project Engineering in a related industry. Possess an energetic personality as well as fit into our company culture and share our values. You will be responsible for a team of one or more Project Engineers and will support the Project Managers, and in some cases act as Project Manager on a day-to-day basis in the execution of projects. Allocating, mentoring, and training Project Engineers across all projects in execution.
The role will strengthen the Project Department, and duties will include, but not be limited to the following:
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for allocating Project Engineers across the projects in execution to ensure adequate resourcing is maintained.
- Responsible for the mentoring, training, and annual appraisals of a team of Project Engineers to ensure that motivation and skills are maintained/enhanced.
- Assist with the support of a team of Project Engineers to ensure all project deliverables are executed within a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Evaluate, organise, and prioritise workload within an agreed schedule.
- Where necessary, act as Project Manager and assume accountability and authority for all project execution phases and gates, drawing upon the support and coordination of internal group stakeholders such as engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, QHSE, and test team.
- Assumes accountability for all commercial, contractual, and technical project deliverables working as customer point of contact and collaborating with internal stakeholders in supporting roles.
- Identify opportunities for margin improvement through cost-out initiatives and customer variation order process where appropriate.
- Control all aspects of the cost and budget on projects.
- Scheduling and day-to-day management of the project(s) under your control.
- Instruct Supply Chain (via Bill of Materials) place and expedite key subcontracts and manage their deliveries.
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Qualifications and Experience
Qualifications
- Degree qualified in a role/industry relevant discipline.
- HNC/HND or equivalent in technical Engineering and/or Project subject.
- Previous experience of working in a similar role.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience as a Senior Engineer with experience in leading a team of Engineers delivering on a number of industry-related projects across a range of sectors and customers.
- Experienced in offshore and subsea operations and practice with successful adherence to health, safety & environmental targets in a highly regulated industry would be beneficial.
- Flexibles/Cable/Umbilical Lay/Subsea construction experience an advantage.
Specific Technical Competences:
- Lead the critical evaluation of customer requirements, translate, and communicate these into the organization ensuring compliance across all levels.
- Lead and monitor all aspects of project progress and performance via an integrated plan with attention to detail to ensure that project margin is delivered on time to budget.
- Understands customer technical challenges.
- Oversees the development of technical design solutions against customer specifications and challenges.
- Fully grasps all engineering challenges.
- Leads technical discussion and highlights the key challenges associated with project execution associated with offshore wind farm inter-array cables, and subsea umbilicals/cables in the offshore marine environment.
- Ensures that the engineering technical solution provision is best in class and effective in respect to cost, quality, and Safety.
- Identifies long-term technical development opportunities.
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Job Specification
- Safety: Paramount to everything we do for our people, our customers, and the environment in which we operate. We always aim higher than industry standards.
- People: Are the foundation on which the business operates through their integrity, intelligence, empowerment, and on-going investment in their development.
- Excellence: Is engrained in our culture to ensure we deliver dynamic, reliable, and responsive solutions that meet the exact needs of our customer’s every time.
- Heritage: Capitalising on years of experience and lessons learned to deliver intelligent solutions that we’re proud of.
- Innovation: Apply our technical excellence, experience, and vision to engineer products and services that evolve with the marketplace.
- Collaboration: Committed to establishing strategic partnerships to create robust and effective solutions that exceed expectations.
- Customers: Driving our people to excel and exceed client expectations, reduce cost, improve quality, apply innovation, and ensure excellence.
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