Project Engineer

Chemring Countermeasures is a world leading and innovative company, designing and developing countermeasure solutions to armed forces throughout the world. We are part of the Chemring Group of companies and have a solid global infrastructure, which also helps us to thrive.

Overview of the role

To act as the Project Management Engineer responsible for all projects and engineering activities relating to a specific CCM customer, ensuring the effective planning, coordination and delivery of all tasks in accordance with programme, technical and safety requirements.

Responsibilities

• Scope, plan and manage engineering tasks and projects, including definition of requirements, work packages, schedules, budgets and resource needs.
• Support and attend customer meetings, external trials, tests and technical reviews.
• Act as a primary engineering interface with a specific customer
• Manage engineering tasks relating to concepts, prototypes, proof‑of‑principle builds and development batches

·         Produce and review costings, bills of materials and materials requirements

·         Lead or support the CCM New Product Process (NPP) for customer specific product developments

• Plan, manage and report all Customer related product engineering work for CCM and customer‑specific programmes.
• Support customer to achieve partial or full independence for certain product manufacturing processes, providing appropriate engineering guidance.
• Support implementation of modifications to payload launch solutions in collaboration with the customer.
• Plan and manage trials activities, including test preparation, instrumentation, data capture and reporting.
• Support compliance with HSE and MoD regulations, relevant standards and internal DAOS / quality processes.
• Maintain accurate records of engineering activity and configuration.
• Drive proactive risk identification, mitigation and continuous improvement across engineering processes.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and/or Experience

·         Level 6 Honors Degree with substantial relevant experience in Engineering

·         Must have continually resided in the UK for a minimum of 5 years

·         Working in an Engineering related discipline at a senior level of ability

·         Project Management Experience

·         Design Review Experience

·         Experience of Continuous improvement programs

·         Detailed knowledge of Risk Assessments

·         Experience of dealing with people issues

·         Working within multi-functional teams

·         3D CAD Modelling experience

Desirable Qualifications, Skills and/or Experience

·         UK Explosive Regulations Knowledge

·         Ideally qualified in Project Management (such as APM, PRINCE2 or AgilePM Methodologies)

This role will be worked over a 4.5 day week; Monday to Thursday 08:00 – 16:45 and Friday 08:00 – 12:30.

Please note: We do not engage with recruitment agencies. We kindly ask that you refrain from sending speculative inquiries or CVs. Should we wish to collaborate with agencies, we will initiate contact accordingly.