Project Engineering Lead

• Competitive salary and remuneration package including, 27 days holiday, pension contributions matched up to 9%,
• Hybrid role, onsite 3 days a week in Cambridge
• Flexibility can be offered around working times and patterns

Our Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated Project Lead Engineer to oversee the planning, execution and delivery of complex projects on a large deployable infrastructure defence programme. The role would suit a technically proficient leader who thrives in leading multi-disciplinary teams and excels in driving results.

Your responsibilities include:

• Lead the development team to ensure most cost effective solutions are developed, which are safe to use and compliant to requirements and statutory legislation.
• Define and manage engineering work packages to drive delivery to schedule and budget, and report progress to senior management.
• Lead engagement with the engineering team and customers, and develop strong working relationships.
• Ensure pragmatic and best-practice Systems Engineering techniques are adopted through development to acceptance.
• Promote and uphold the company values and procedures.
• Promote and adhere to Health, Safety and Environmental best practice.
• Work to standards, processes & procedures to ensure rigour, resilience and continuous improvement.
• Define and manage product requirements throughout the development and delivery life cycle.
• Manage product configuration and change control.
• Ensure lessons learnt and best practice are shared across the business to support continuous improvement and consistency.
• Act promptly and mobilise internal resources and team to resolve issues.
• Identify development needs and opportunities of team members and provide coaching / training to develop technical capability.
• Challenge the status quo, bring new ideas to improve engineering quality, productivity and timeliness of delivery.

Apply if you have most of the following:

• Sound understanding of engineering principles.
• Excellent planning and organisation skills.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with energy and enthusiasm to all levels within and outside of the business.
• The ability to apply your skills and knowledge across a wide and diverse range of projects.
• Ideally qualified to degree level in Engineering with relevant and sufficient experience in the field.
• Market aware with a good understanding of the market in which Marshall operates, including competitors, suppliers, customers and regulatory organisations.
• Experienced in planning and delivering large and complex tasks to schedule and budget demonstrating effective time management across many projects and priorities.
• Proven experience of supporting team members to deliver and develop through coaching and guidance.
• Sound understanding of product safety, standards, technical risk management.

The benefits we will offer you include:

• 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy/sell)
• Pension contributions up to 9%
• Healthcare cash plan for you and your children
• Extensive flexible benefit program including Cycle to Work
• Life assurance at 4x basic salary
• Enhanced parental leave and pay
• Paid volunteering leave
• Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools