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Project Engineer - Newport - 40k - 45k DOE plus excellent benefits
This company, a growing and innovative electronics manufacturer, specialising in advanced electronic solutions require a Project Engineer to be based at their prestigious site in Newport. The Project Engineer will play a key role in ensuring that any engineering changes are managed through the wider team and taking responsibility for coordinating the engineering aspects of customer NPI's within the business.
Location: Newport
Salary: 40k - 45k DOE plus excellent benefits
Benefits to include Pension, Subsidised canteen on site, Life Assurance, Discount Hub, GP Anytime Access, 25 days annual leave.
Project Engineer responsibilities:
- Take the engineering lead on projects for customers, ensuring necessary project plans are in place, correct operating rhythm and procedures are followed, and any first offs are well managed and signed off.
- Attend customer meetings as required but also pulls on the wider Engineering resources & core functions to facilitate excellent customer experience.
- Takes the technical lead at the front end of the process, ensuring all necessary requirements are captured and detailed well in advance of any customer NPI/build.
- Promotes opportunities for LEAN processes & commercial interaction to drive higher margins, by identifying risks & capturing detailed costs for the bid team i.e. Tooling.
- Reports on progress and escalations within Engineering, also ensuring engineering changes are managed and tracked effectively.
- Working with the wider team -verifying the design or blueprint of the product before manufacturing starts and verifying the product itself after the manufacturing has been completed.
- Quoting overhead and expenses in document format
- Providing feedback about the product and suitable recommendations to the Research and Development engineer for development of the product
- Completion of Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA)
The successful candidate:
- Excellent communication skills.
- High motivational skill base to take initiative in times of challenge.
- Learning skill to speedily absorb new methods and techniques of preparation.
- Computer literacy skill in Microsoft packages and computer use
- Coordination skill to reconcile the efforts of all technical departments.
- Demonstrable high level of organisational skills
- A proven track record working in a Project Engineering role preferably within the Electronics industry, however, not essential.
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