Project (Contracts) Engineer - Inside IR35

Client base is St Neots, Cambridgeshire but the role can be REMOTE (client site visits and meetings at St Neots as required). Acts as a design authority for an engineering discipline with medium complexity. Completes assignments on multiple projects of moderate size or portions of major projects in a cost-effective manner and in accordance with contract specifications, quality standards, safety requirements, and cybersecurity policies and standards.

Core Responsibilities

• Technical contribution: Acts as a technical lead and approves design deliverables. Reviews all project documents for conformity, safety, cybersecurity, and quality assurance requirements. Anticipates and solves unprecedented design problems, crucial issues, and/or unique conditions. Serves as a specialist in the application of advanced concepts and methods. Defines focus areas / priorities for design to ensure technological excellence.
• Customer and Sales: Works with the customer to shape and deliver solutions and seeks customer feedback to drive and deliver improvements. Finalizes ‘fail-safe philosophy’, ‘secure-by-design principles’, and other key concepts as part of kick-off and design freeze meetings. Participates in project meetings and resolves any outstanding technical issues to meet contractual obligations. Assists in preparing proposal / presentation of engineering projects / programs.
• Technical leadership and knowledge sharing: Applies design thinking / design for excellence concepts in projects, including modelling, prototyping, simulation, and calculations. Performs project peer-reviews and utilizes checklists to perform design verification according to applicable standards and engineering guidelines. Contributes and shares experiences in workshops related to engineering design, tools, and processes. Coaches engineering colleagues on the translation of conceptual designs to engineering documentation, best practices, and lessons learned from past projects.
• Processes and tools: Develops, selects, and applies standard techniques, procedures, and tools. Ensures that engineering activities comply with safety and cybersecurity regulations and standards and contractual requirements. Reports processes and tools inefficiencies and suggests ideas for improvements.
• Risk and opportunity management: Assesses and addresses technical risks and opportunities.
• Contract management: Ensures that Bill of Materials (BOM) for the project meets contractual obligations and project gross margin requirements by not generating Project Left-Over Material (PLOM). Identifies and implements variation requests to support contract claims based on the approval from project manager.
• Planning and control: Creates work plans and cost estimates for the portfolio of projects in consultation with respective project managers. Ensures quality and timely implementation of projects within the targeted cost.
• Supply Chain management: Prepares RFQs to meet contractual requirements and provides technical evaluation of suppliers’ proposals. Collaborates with the supply chain function and the project manager(s) to meet the contractual requirements.
• Manufacturing and Testing: Coordinates with manufacturing and testing functions to ensure the designs are appropriately manufactured / staged and tested. Ensures the engineering deliverables as built are updated.
• Commissioning and Service: Coordinates with commissioning / service functions to ensure the designs are appropriately installed and commissioned and ensures the engineering deliverables are updated post installation and commissioning (if applicable as part of the contract).
• License to Operate / Core Values: Reports any integrity, compliance, safety, cybersecurity, quality, contract, program, and cost issues to the management and / or project manager(s) for resolution. Ensures that engineering activities and deliverables comply with safety regulations and cybersecurity regulations and standards and contractual requirements. Ensures that Bill of Materials (BOM) for the project meets contractual obligations. Identifies and implements change / variation requests based on the approval from project manager. Ensures the project meets the technical requirements of the contract and is technically completed as part of contract closure activities.
• Collaboration / Leadership: Works closely with project manager right from the receipt of contract / order till closure to meet the technical requirements of the contract. Prepares RFQs to meet contractual requirements and provides technical evaluation of suppliers’ proposals. Collaborates with the supply chain function and the project manager(s). Coordinates with manufacturing and testing functions to ensure the technical solutions are appropriately manufactured / staged and tested. Coordinates with commissioning / service functions to ensure the designs are appropriately installed and commissioned (if applicable as part of the contract). Works with the customer to shape and deliver solutions and seeks customer feedback to drive and deliver improvements. Assists in preparing proposal / presentation of engineering projects / programs.