Reports to: Senior Engineering Manager
Location: London - Heathrow
Contract Type: Permanent
Introduction to role
Do you have the drive to necessary to grow our RMR capabilities in the engineering airports team of UK and Ireland? Can you contribute to delivering a collaborative approach for success from Sales to Service take over, coordinating activities primary around Retrofit, Modification and Revision Projects simultaneously? If so, we want to hear from you
Role Responsibilities
As Project Manager Engineering RMR UKI, it is your job to lead and coordinate activities for RMR projects in the UK & Ireland from early involvement to handover. Working on several projects simultaneously and reporting to the Manager Engineering UK & Ireland you will be responsible to achieve the best overall project result for both Vanderlande and the customer, considering planning, quality and costs. You will work in a multidisciplined environment aligning with internal and external stakeholders and functional lead and engineer your own projects. In your position, you are collaborating intensively with Sales Managers, Project Managers, Engineering teams and Service Leads in the UK & Ireland and within the Customer Centre EMEA LATAM. In the challenging and responsible position of Project Manager Engineering RMR UKI, you will have the chance to make a significant contribution to the growth and profitability of Vanderlande.
Your responsibilities and activities will include:
- Support a safe working environment through encouragement of a safety-first culture and the execution of health and safety analysis and ensuring implementation thereof in the design
- Planning and engineering of RMR projects by being a stakeholder manager and creating and owning the engineering project plan
- Managing the Technical Solution including being responsible for the delivery of (sub-)systems with the right quality by acting as a technical business partner to customers and other external parties
- Support the development of customer life-cycle plans
- Managing the budget of engineering projects proactively by identifying risks and opportunities and evaluating engineering scope and modifications, including an ongoing reporting
- Continuously improving upon own and others project and engineering management processes, including community development and best practices to support better individual and collective engineering project delivery
- Functional and future Line Management of multidiscipline project team to the successful completion of
various engineering projects
Role Qualification and Skills
- Proven technical leadership capabilities; able to manage and drive matrixed multi-disciplinary teams and lead by example
- Relevant Degree in mechanical, electrical, or controls engineering
- Appropriate years of experience managing complex airports engineering projects of demanding customers in a dynamic and system-critical environment
- Project Management knowledge combined with proficient expertise within engineering projects, ideally within material handling systems (Electrical/Mechanical/LLC/HLC/Safety)
- Willingness to travel, often up to 25% of your time
What we offer
- 28 days annual leave (excluding public holidays)
- Bupa Medical Cover
- YuLife – Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers
- A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression.
- Cycle to work scheme
- Yellow Nest is a salary exchange scheme that reduces childcare costs for parents and employers
- Pension with Aviva
- Access to Achievers an award-winning recognition platform that inspires to recognise your coworkers Where points are awarded that can be exchanged for a range of goods and discounts.
Diversity & Inclusion
Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age marital status or disability status. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, we are always happy to discuss or explore, any reasonable adjustments can be made to support your application.
