Project Engineer

Senior Project Engineer Reporting to: Senior Manager, Projects ( Packaging ) Location: Primary location: Auto Coding Solutions, Daresbury .

A s required by the business Job Summary The Senior Project Engineer manages ACS customer projects from order handover through development, deployment, installation, commissioning, support transition and close-out.

Project Engineer builds strong customer relationships, provides clear project leadership and applies commercial judgement to manage change, protect project performance and support successful customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• The role co-ordinates internal teams, customers and third parties to deliver projects safely, on time, to agreed scope, and with effective control of cost, risk, change and project information.
• The role also manages pre-order project review, bringing delivery, resource and risk considerations into business decision-making.
• Key Tasks and Accountabilities Project Management Manage ACS customer projects from order handover through planning, delivery, go-live support and close-out.
• Prepare and maintain project plans, milestones, resource requirements, customer actions and delivery dependencies as required .
• Coordinate internal and external project teams, including third parties and customers .
• Monitor progress against scope, cost and schedule, resolving issues and escalating risks where required.
• Manage standard and complex projects using a level of control appropriate to project risk.
• Maintain clear project records, decisions, actions and supporting information.
• Governance, Risk and Change Control Manage pre-order governance, co-ordinating the required business inputs and recording decisions and actions.
• Lead project governance following order, ensuring reviews take place at the required project stages.
• Maintain visibility of project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and outstanding actions.
• Assess and control changes affecting scope, cost, delivery dates, technical requirements, resources or customer commitments.
• Ensure governance decisions, exceptions, actions, owners and due dates are recorded and followed up.
• Escalate material risks, missing information or decisions outside agreed authority.
• Customer and Stakeholder Co-ordination Act as the main project contact for the customer following order handover.
• Coordinate customer information, site readiness, access, production downtime, training and acceptance requirements.
• Provide clear project updates covering progress, decisions, risks, actions and changes.
• Follow up actions and maintain information flow across internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Manage customer expectations and escalate dependencies or blockers affecting delivery.
• Commercial Control and Close-Out Monitor project hours, costs, site days, follow-up visits and commercial performance.
• Maintain records of scope changes, variation requests and commercial impacts.
• Coordinate customer acceptance and transition of the live system into Support.
• Review project performance, including the reasons and costs of follow-up visits.
• Complete project close-out and ensure remaining actions have clear ownership.
• Hold project lessons-learned reviews and record findings in the central log.

Requirements

• Strong project management capability in a software, controls, automation, systems integration or technical project environment.
• Strong planning, organisation, risk management and change-control skills.
• Able to facilitate cross-functional decisions without assuming ownership of functional evidence or commercial approval.
• Able to coordinate multiple teams and maintain progress without direct line authority.
• Commercial awareness, including project cost, scope, resource and schedule impacts.
• Confident communicating with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Able to challenge unclear requirements, incomplete information and unrealistic delivery commitments.
• Competent in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word and wider Microsoft 365 applications.
• Able to travel to customer sites when required.
• Previous project management experience is required.

Preferred

• Experience managing customer projects through planning, delivery, implementation and close-out is required.
• Experience facilitating governance or cross-functional project reviews is desirable.
• Experience of project governance, risk management, change control and cost tracking is desirable.
• Experience in software, controls, automation, systems integration, engineering or manufacturing is desirable.
• Experience in food production, packaging, coding, labelling or traceability systems is desirable.