Engineering Project Lead
Job Description
Job title: Engineering Project Lead
Company: Michael Page
Job description: This role is an exciting opportunity for a passionate Engineering Project Lead to manage and oversee engineering projects in the Manufacturing sector. The position requires a high level of technical knowledge and leadership skills to ensure project success.
To develop effective engineering project plans, track progress, resolve problems, develop solutions and forecast project and product cost performance. Coordinate with other functional units, identify and address project issues, gather and analyse data to support the development of solutions and recommendations to solve problems, meeting schedule commitments and optimising performance.You act within a small team of peers and do not have direct responsibility for any staff. You have the ability to manage across a functional matrix structure within the Technical Domain of the business. Your responsibility is focused on effective planning and execution of Engineering projects to meet or exceed the agreed performance metrics. You are considered the Technical focal point for the project under your responsibility, across the entire business and also Customer and Airframer facing. The role is based in Cwmbran, Wales and occasional travel will be required including to international locations (suppliers, customers, other Safran sites).
International key player in the Aviation Industry | World’s leading suppliers of seating for passengers
A successful Engineering Project Lead should have:
- HNC/HND within a related Engineering discipline
- Engineering Degree within an Aerospace related discipline
- Typically having greater than 5 years of experience working in an Engineering Discipline or a Technical Project Management role
- Previous experience managing multi-functional Teams including within a remote working setting
- Essential A good understanding of the certification framework within which the work is undertaken, preferably with some knowledge of Aircraft Interiors
- An awareness of configuration management principles and change management processes
- Experienced in preparation of business cases or bids for new programmes including Technical specification preparation
- Understanding of financial management within a new product development environment, dealing with different categories of costs that are both internal and external to the business
- Product development and associated processes
- Systems Engineering (Requirements Engineering, MBSE, Functional design)
- Mechanical, electrical and systems design
- DFMEA, PFMEA
- Recognised qualification in Project Management (eg. PRINCE2, APMP or PMQ)
Safran is an international high technology group operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defence and space markets. Safran has a global presence, with more than 95,000 employees and sales of 24.6 billion euros in 2019. Working alone or in partnership, Safran holds world or European leadership positions in its core markets. Safran undertakes research and development programmes to meet fast changing market requirements with total R&D expenditures of around 1.7billion euros in 2019Safran Seats designs and builds innovative, customised and high-value-added seating solutions for all classes: Economy, PremiumEconomy, Business and First class, as well as crew seats. Our complete range of ergonomic seats ensures passenger comfort, based on state-of-the-art design and engineered components to ensure optimised use of space. One million seats made by the company are now in service worldwide
- Opportunity to work in a leading industrial and manufacturing company.
- A supportive and collaborative work culture.
- Opportunities for career progression and professional development.
If you are an experienced Engineering Project Lead looking for a new challenge in a thriving company, we would love to hear from you. Apply today to take the next step in your career.
Expected salary: £27900 per year
Location: Cwmbran, Torfaen
