Location
Waterlooville, Hampshire | United Kingdom
Job description
GENERAL PURPOSE:
The Project Engineer has an overall responsibility as field engineer for PM Projects
- - S coping, Conceptual Design, E stimating, preparation and completion of internal Q uotation documentation ( SEQ ).
- -Project Execution, Start Up and Commissioning
The PE supports sales throughout the sales process of equipment projects starting as early as possible during the discovery phas e and ending after customer approved commissioning .
Ensuring all budgeted project objectives are met.
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ensure compliance with all WCS GROUP Health, Safety and Environmental Policies
- Lead & co-ordinate stakeholders to adhere to engineering processes & Team Performance Plan (TPP).
- Identify project stakeholders and confirm technical and contractual scoping
- Ensure any and all assumptions, customer or other responsibilities & exclusions outside scope of offer are clearly identified and communicated in the proposal document
Endeavour to provide value-added, differential advantage in proposals focusing on:
- How we can decrease cost of operation
- Improve operating efficiency
- Minimise Environmental, Health and Safety issues
- Enhance customer competitive advantage
- Instigate Peer or internal management review of proposal prior to submission according to Engineering processes.
- Assist sales staff where required in sales process/iterations and technical queries prior to closing of sale
Undertake Order Review to confirm:
- Technical compliance with offer
- Deliverables timeframe compliance with offer
- Commercial compliance with offer
- Contractual compliance with offer
- Write order acknowledgement registering gaps form Order Review. Seek management/supervisory guidance on the appropriate action prior to submission to customer.
- Organise Project Kick-off meeting with the customer and salesperson and introduce Project Execution Plan (PEP) where appropriate according to Engineering Processes. All kick-off meetings must include:
- Clear Scope detail confirmation
- Roles, responsibilities, communications,
- Project deliverables, timeframes (Gantt chart) and success criteria
- H&S and project management methodologies including Change Order mechanisms
- Establish clear project design detail to meet requirements, incorporating any new information from Kick-off meetings.
- Initiate and track progress of procurement of items and activities to meet scope, budget, timeline requirements
- Tracks budgets vs actual through the project life cycle
- Co-ordinate off-site assembly and testing where appropriate
- Control and report progress of project via regular reviews against scope milestones, expenditure v plan, and technical and contractual variations.
- Schedule and minute progress meetings with customers at key milestones and extraordinary events (changes to scope)
- Prepare, schedule and supervise site work (installation and commissioning) by subcontractors and internal WCS GROUP specialists, and co-ordinate WCS GROUP scope activity with out-of-scope activity owners.
- Capture success criteria during commissioning and handover
- Produce handover documents according to engineering Processes.
- Seek and share learning and continuous improvement
- Actively participate in engineering and other WCS GROUP meetings
- Assist with ISO audits.
- Full accountability and responsibility for Project delivery.
- Generate project programmes, margin reports & monthly KPI reports.
- Organise, chair and report in detail at weekly project review meetings.
- Organise and chair contract / project hand over meetings (identify potential impacts to WCS GROUP and customer).
- Deputize for Senior Projects Manager
Requirements
EXPERIENCE/SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS
- 5 years relevant Project Engineering work experience desired in an appropriate Process, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering discipline
- Degree, HND or similar desirable
- Formal Project Management Certification (Prince 2)
- Excellent communication skills required
- Proven planning, organizational and Scope, Budget, Timeline implementation skills ideally involving multiple projects at the same time
- NEC3/4 contract awareness and negotiation.
- Experience in Wastewater Treatment related projects essential.
REQUIREMENTS
- Post holder must hold a full UK Driving licence and must be able to travel and stay overnight as required.
Benefits
- Excellent progression and development opportunities.
- Company pension scheme.
- 23 days annual leave + Bank holidays.
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