Senior Project Engineer
Norwich
£50,000 - £55,000
Most engineering project roles are really admin jobs with Gantt charts attached.
This one isn’t.
This business develops complex electro-mechanical products in-house. Engineers still solve problems properly here. Projects involve real technical uncertainty, prototypes, testing, redesigns, competing priorities and constant coordination between mechanical, electronic and software teams.
They are looking for someone who can sit in the middle of that environment and keep things moving.
Probably someone who started life in engineering and gradually became the person projects naturally gravitated towards.
You might currently be:
* A Senior Design Engineer running projects unofficially
* An NPI Engineer
* A Product Development Engineer
* A Technical Project Engineer
* An Engineering Project Manager in a smaller business
The key thing is this:
You understand how engineering development actually works.
You know prototypes fail.
You know drawings change.
You know priorities shift.
You know engineers, operations and customers rarely want the same thing at the same time.
The role sits inside a growing SME engineering environment where you’ll work closely with leadership, engineering and operations to coordinate development activity from concept through testing and delivery.
The background matters less than the mindset, but environments likely to translate well include:
* Instrumentation
* Automation
* Scientific equipment
* Oil & gas technology
* Robotics
* Special purpose machinery
* Electro-mechanical products
* Advanced manufacturing
You do not need to be the strongest technical specialist in the room.
But you do need enough engineering credibility that technical teams trust you quickly.
The business is looking for someone calm, organised, pragmatic and comfortable operating close to the engineering floor rather than at arm’s length.
If you enjoy bringing structure to technically messy environments without slowing engineers down, this will probably make sense to you.