Project Engineer

Description:

Evtec Automotive, are a supplier to some of the biggest and most prestigious car manufacturers in the world, and are looking for a Project Engineer to join the team to support on growth in work with new customers. 

Summary of Position

The Project Engineer is responsible for coordinating all project elements including engineering design, quality planning, installation, commissioning and final buy-off phases as well as ensuring the project remains within budget in order to meet the requirements of the customer’s needs. They will work on many phases or sub-tasks of projects or entire projects of moderate complexity, with results impacting on project completion. They will predominantly be self-managed with regular reports back to the Engineering Manager at project milestones and/or project completion.

Core Responsibilities

Coordinate all project elements including planning, manufacturing, installation, commissioning and final buy-off phases ensuring that it is managed within budget and tracked against project timing plan as well as any other relevant KPIs for the project.

Work closely with the Customer to allow you to react quickly and track any changes in specification, while being present at customer premises/meetings to provide reports/project progress in line with APQP requirements.

Manage Customer and internal Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and participate in Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) processes

Define the customer specification into either a departmental action or sub-supplier order and manage the project requirements and resources (including sourcing sub-contract elements) around these while tracking progress through and being able to present updates where required.

Produce deliverables on-time to customer requirements, clarifying these requirements where necessary

Effectively analyse customer and internal changes, including feasibility study

Apply specific technical skills as required to support customer or colleagues and assist design verification and sign off reporting.

Produce clear, focused and understandable explanations for change requests (PPCN) and accurately cost any change in specification.

Anticipate any potential project risks, identifying and establishing corrective actions and performing root cause analysis to resolve problems.

Participate in Failure Mode and Effects Analyse (PFMEA), quality history reviews, robustness studies, etc.

Key Business Priorities for Role (inc KPI and Targets)

Delivery of projects to target timescales and customer requirements

Referrals of potential new business to sales/commercial team