Project Engineer

2 weeks ago

Chard Somerset, United Kingdom Wabtec Corporation Full time

Who will you be working with?

Brecknell Willis (a Division of Wabtec UK Ltd) headquartered in Chard, Somerset, focuses on engineering, project management, and sales of electrification equipment for railways, specifically pantographs and contact shoes.

Role: Project Engineer

Salary: £Competitive

Location: Chard, Somerset,

Hours: Monday to Thursday, 08:00am to 17:00pm, and Friday 08:00am to 12:30pm

How will you make a difference?

The Project Engineer is responsible for leading, managing, coordinating, and controlling all engineering related activities in the project to deliver on requirements, budget, and schedule, by implementing the applicable engineering Product Line processes.

What you will be doing…

  • Ensure that all technical requirements and demands by the Customer as per contract are covered by the defined engineering scope.
  • Generate the engineering input to the detailed project schedule.
  • Cooperate with other functions inside and outside the Project Team in cross-functional activities regarding cost reduction, risk, and opportunity analysis).
  • Monitor and compile scope change and agree on the engineering budget with the Project Manager.
  • Approve all concepts and specifications for use in the projects such as calculations, safety analysis, and system-type test reports.
  • Analyse and report all changes to the engineering project budget, schedule, requirements, and deliverables.
  • Achieve customer satisfaction with reliable product performance, quick response to customer feedback including potential complaints and provide appropriate solutions within the time limits.
  • Support and address the interface problems or technical clarifications (e.g., with suppliers)
  • Manage according to the project plan, the project product development plan with a focus on implementation, integration, and verification.
  • Manage the customer gate reviews, ensuring proper preparation for the engineering scope and positive achievement of the milestone.
  • Manage with the technical project team the related system validation process, ensuring the respect and management of all homologation and certification requirements.
  • Liaising with customers to solve nonconformances in the interest of customer satisfaction, long term reliability, and safety.

As Wabtec is a global company and has multiple manufacturing and engineering sites around the world; applicants must be willing and enthusiastic to travel internationally when and if required.

Are you an individual with the following?

  • Experience in a manufacturing or engineering environment.
  • Ideally, you have demonstrable design and project experience.
  • Ability to coordinate and ensure collaboration of multi-site/multi-function teams.
  • Proven ability to develop, lead and implement projects with high business impact.
  • Excellent communication skills and matrix leadership experience.
  • Financial and data analysis skills.

If you don’t have all the above criteria don’t worry, we would still like to hear from you as we live our values and always put people first and strive to expand what is possible.

About Wabtec:

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at:

It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make your and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so Through our people, leadership development, services, technology, and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

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