Project Engineer

Project Engineer

Peterborough | Permanent | Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits

A leading engineering and technology organisation operating within highly regulated and safety-critical industries is seeking a Project Engineer to join its growing product development team.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on advanced communications and electronic systems used by customers across aviation, defence, transportation and critical infrastructure sectors worldwide. You will play a key role in coordinating development activities, supporting project delivery, and ensuring the successful progression of innovative products from concept through to introduction into service.

The organisation has a long-established reputation for technical excellence, innovation, and investment in its people, offering outstanding career development opportunities, flexible working arrangements, and exposure to cutting-edge technologies.

The Role

As a Project Engineer, you will coordinate and organise engineering development activities, working closely with technical specialists, project leads, and multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex internal development projects.

You will support project planning, scheduling, risk management, resource coordination, and technical reporting, helping ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to the highest quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate and support internal engineering development projects
• Maintain and update key project documentation including quality plans, release plans and statements of work
• Support project planning and scheduling activities alongside technical and project leadership teams
• Identify and coordinate project resource requirements
• Track project progress and ensure development activities remain aligned to agreed roadmaps
• Monitor risks, issues and mitigation activities, escalating concerns where required
• Liaise with technical authorities and engineering teams to provide accurate project status reporting
• Support the generation and management of project requirements
• Coordinate procurement and availability of development equipment, prototypes and engineering materials
• Manage ordering and delivery of prototype hardware and associated project items
• Organise and facilitate technical and project review meetings
• Drive delivery of project milestones and roadmap activities
• Support engineering resource planning and departmental improvement initiatives
• Manage one or more concurrent engineering development projects
• Contribute to continuous improvement activities across the engineering function

What We're Looking For

Applicants should ideally hold a degree in Engineering, Electronics, Communications, Software, or a related technical discipline, together with experience working within a product development environment.

Essential / Desirable Experience

• Project coordination or engineering project support experience
• Product development lifecycle knowledge
• Engineering design and development environments
• Project planning, scheduling and progress tracking
• Risk identification and mitigation activities
• Technical documentation and reporting
• Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
• Working within safety-critical or highly regulated industries

Advantageous Technical Experience

Experience or exposure to one or more of the following areas would be beneficial:

• Communications systems and modulation techniques
• Electronic circuit design and development
• Analogue, digital and RF electronics
• Embedded software and firmware development
• FPGA technologies
• Software development methodologies
• Programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Python, JavaScript or HTML
• Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
• Network technologies and communication protocols
• CAD design of mechanical components and assemblies
• Product introduction into manufacturing environments

Personal Attributes

• Strong organisational and planning skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
• Commercial awareness and customer focus
• Positive and adaptable approach to changing priorities
• Proactive problem-solving mindset
• Ability to work independently and drive activities forward
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills
• Commitment to quality, continuous improvement and professional development

Package & Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working hours with core hours
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Enhanced pension contribution scheme
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• Flexible leave options
• Long-service and retirement recognition awards
• Employee assistance and wellbeing programme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Subsidised on-site facilities
• Free parking
• Ongoing training and continuous learning support
• Professional development opportunities

Additional Information

• Permanent position
• Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
• Office-based role with flexibility where appropriate
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK
• Due to the nature of the work, successful applicants may be required to undergo security screening
• Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of formal qualifications where appropriate

To apply or learn more, please contact us for a confidential discussion.

We are acting as a recruitment partner on behalf of our client. Due to the confidential nature of this assignment, further details regarding the organisation and products will be provided during the application process.