Belcan Technical Recruitment are currently looking to recruit a Lead Engineer for our client who are a leading engineering and industrial services provider based in Fareham. This is a permanent contract and with a very competitive salary package.
A project Lead Engineer is required to motivate and supervise the project engineering team, taking full responsibility for successful technical delivery of a complete project solution to the agreed scope in accordance with company procedures whilst meeting budgetary and time-scale targets.
A Lead Engineer is expected to be a committed and enthusiastic team member. Must be pro-active, and able to allocate tasks among team members and supervise, assist and monitor task progress and advise the project manager on progress, risks and issues.
The Lead Engineer should work co-operatively with the Project Manager and engineering team to ensure smooth project progress in accordance with the agreed project lifecycle.
Role Responsibilities
- Overall technical and engineering team leadership
- Working closely with and supporting the Project Manager in all aspects of project technical delivery and scope management
- Lead the technical and quality requirements on projects
- Ensure project adherence to company quality processes and procedures
- Detailed task and procurement list development and leadership
- Allocate tasks to the engineering team and monitor progress
- Identification of project opportunities and variations
- Support the Project Manager in identifying and managing risks and issues
- Support the Project Manager in the project delivery strategy development and planning
- Identification and enabling of reusable modules by standardisation and modularization of systems where appropriate
- Prototyping of new technologies
- Training planning and support
- Mentoring of Engineers
- Sales support
- Support the Automation sales team and support department business development
- Provide Health and Safety leadership by example
Functions
The Lead Engineer is normally expected to undertake the following:
- Central involvement in sales to projects hand-over process
- Central involvement in 1st Engineering review
- Assist PM in development of QA plan
- Assist PM in development of project Gantt chart
- Assist PM in development of initial task & procurement list
- Ongoing development & updating of detailed task & procurement lists
- Peer review documents created by the project team or other teams
- Attend contract meetings with the project manager
- Act as the main contact/client interface for the project and deputise for the PM where required
- Undertake or manage site surveys as required
- Lead outline design, upfront design studies and requirement definition for clients
- Develop FDS - with the project team as necessary
- Develop DDS - with the project team as necessary
This vacancy is being advertised by Belcan.
