Project Support Engineer

**Project Support Engineer - Powertrain Role Guidelines**: General Characteristics
- Develops increased knowledge and skills most likely within a given discipline or set of related disciplines
- Evaluates, selects, & applies standard techniques, procedures, & criteria to perform assignments of limited complexity
- Collaboratively uses judgement to determine adaptions to standard practices
- Undertakes leadership of small work packages

Typical Technical Responsibilities
- Undertakes defined assignments
- Develops workflows to deliver assignments
- Prepares portions of project documentation (models, drawings, reports etc.)
- Assists on a wide variety of tasks across departments and functions as required

Managerial Responsibilities
- Assists in determining schedules and budgets for familiar tasks
- Undertakes small and well-defined work packages

Direction Received
- Receives instruction of specific objectives
- Receives supervision on unconventional and/or complex problems, and possible solutions

Communication skills
- Possesses effective oral and written communication skills
- Interacts with contractors

Typical Experience
- 0-2 years

Typical professional qualifications and community activities
- Graduate Member of professional practice organisation
- Involved with outreach activities focuses towards schools and education (e.g. STEM)

**Departmental Responsibilities**:

- Under the guidance of a Principal Engineer, ensure cost and weight targets are effectively delegated and met throughout the design process
- Under the guidance of a Principal Engineer, schedule design activities to meet engineering deliverables
- Contribute to complete and effective engineering plans and schedules, including planning own activities
- Support high quality and imaginative technical solutions to project requirements, utilising team input when necessary
- Support styling engagement to ensure delivery of feasible design solutions with regard to manufacturing, assembly and homologation
- Coordinate with Principal Engineers and Project Managers to ensure technical targets, program timings and budgetary requirements are met
- Liaise with the Prototype Workshop to provide feasible design solutions and support workshop activities pre, during and post-vehicle build
- Schedule design activities to meet engineering deliverables that deliver to required specifications within timescales and budgets
- Support presentation of concepts and design status to client project teams, client senior management, project suppliers and internally to Company personnel

Miscellaneous:

- Identify and highlight any areas for continuous improvement
- Ensure that your technical knowledge and expertise is kept up to date
- To perform any other duties that may well be reasonably expected within the remit of the role
- To ensure compliance with the Health, Safety and Environmental Policy requirements within areas of responsibility

**Gordon Murray Design Group of Companies**: In addition to the above responsibilities for Gordon Murray Design, the job also involves similar duties to be conducted for any future subsidiary companies within the Gordon Murray Design Group.

Disclaimer:
This vacancy is being advertised by Optamor Limited. Optamor is a specialist Recruitment Process Outsourcing provider. We provide a flexible full recruitment solution which takes care of all recruitment requirements from planning to on-boarding. Our specialistrecruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.