Project Engineer

Project Engineer.
6 Month Contract.
SC Clearance Required
Start Date: ASAP
Bristol / Hybrid - 3 days on site

This Contract position is for a Project Engineer reporting to a Project Engineering Manager. The role will assist the Chief Engineer by supporting the delivery of the programme objectives, ensuring that assigned activities are appropriately coordinated, managed and reported.

Key Tasks:

• Providing coordination to engineering teams representing multiple skill areas, which may include internal and external resources and customers.
• Developing and maintaining Supplier Statements of Work (SSOWs) to satisfy current and emerging programme requirements.
• Championing systems engineering best practice in the management of the programme requirements hierarchy, ensuring that requirements are of a good quality with an associated compliance verification strategy, are allocated appropriately, and have adequately traceability between the different requirement tiers.
• Working with programme leadership to obtain required approvals to ensure business continuity for tasks relating to the proposed delivery of the VL contracted service.
• Coordinating project proposal activities and ensuring the engineering leadership team are aware of proposal gate milestones and objectives.
• Identifying metrics and reporting to programme leadership to provide a status of functional performance.
• Comparing actual results to baseline plans to assess project performance, efficiencies, productivity and lessons learned.
• Planning, identifying, and coordinating resources required to support the programme through the management of functional resource requirements and reporting into status reviews.
• Responding to changes to requirements, assessing the impact and negotiating proposed changes to determine modifications to deliverables, resources, costs and schedules.
• Providing technical coordination for the development and execution of the project deliverables.
• The tailoring and application of engineering initiatives, best practices and quality processes.
• Contributing to Continuous Improvement.
• Risk, Issues and Opportunities management.

Skills and Experience

• A Degree level (or equivalent) qualification in Engineering, Systems Engineering, or an engineering related field, with experience in requirements management for systems and / or services.
• Experience in Project Planning and Management; Excellent SE knowledge and skills, Good IT skills; Excellent Customer Facing Skills.
• Knowledge of the Helicopter technology, ideally miltary
• Registration with the Engineering Council as an Incorporated or Chartered Engineer (IEng or CEng), or be able to demonstrate the ability to work towards IEng/CEng.
• Knowledge of Military Airworthiness Authority (MAA) Regulatory Articles.

Security Clearance: This position requires the ability to obtain a UK security clearance requiring 5 years continuous residency in the UK

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