Project Engineer

Job Description:

Project Engineer

• £37,500 to £45,000 per annum, dependent upon skills and experience
• Coventry, West Midlands
• Pension, matched up to 6%
• Life Assurance, 3 x salary
• Career & Professional Development

Why join Evtec Automotive?

Evtec Automotive is more than just a parts manufacturer – we’re part of a movement towards a more sustainable and inclusive future. With key customers like Jaguar Land Rover, McLaren, and Ford, we’re at the heart of British automotive innovation.

We’re also a business with purpose – committed to making a positive impact through inclusive employment and creating opportunities that go beyond the bottom line.

The Role of Project Engineer

We’re looking for a hands-on Project Engineer to join our growing team. You will take the lead on coordination of all project elements including engineering, quality planning, installation, commissioning and final buy-off phases as well as ensuring the project remains within budget and in line with customer requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Management responsibility for all elements of the projects to keep on track to timing plans, within budget as well as achievement to other relevant KPIs.
• Work closely with the customers to react quickly to any changes to specification or project requirements.
• Manage Customer and internal Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and participate in Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) processes
• Apply specific technical skills as required to support customer or colleagues and assist design verification and sign off reporting.
• Produce clear, focused and understandable explanations for change requests (PCR / ECN) and accurately cost any change in specification.
• Anticipate any potential project risks, identifying and establishing corrective actions and performing root cause analysis to resolve problems.
• Participate in Failure Mode and Effects Analyse (PFMEA), quality history reviews, robustness studies, etc.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience working in an Automotive supplier into OEMs
• Ability to work with multiple projects at various stages of product life cycle and plan and prioritise effectively
• Proactive and able to cope with autonomous nature of the role to be able to decide the best way forward when confronted with issues.
• Confident communicator across all levels of the business and with customers
• Engineering background (education or experience) to help in reading engineering drawings and being able to work with customers to develop solutions to any technical issues that may arise.