Project Leader Engineering

Job Title

Job Description

Reports to: Project Manager Engineering

Location: Manchester/North West

Contract Type: Permanent

Introduction to the role

Vanderlande is a global leader in logistics process automation across the airports, parcel, and warehouse sectors. The UK& Ireland Airports Engineering department forms part of our worldwide engineering community of more than 1,000 colleagues across multiple technical disciplines.

Role Responsibilities

As a Project Leader Engineering, you will play a key role in delivering complex engineering projects in a collaborative and supportive environment. You will collaborate with colleagues across engineering project management, customers, and partners to ensure high-quality technical solutions are delivered safely, sustainably, and on time. This role offers the opportunity to develop technical leadership skills while contributing to projects with real-world impact.

Vanderlande values different perspectives and supports ongoing learning and career development and welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences as we build a diverse engineering team.

Your responsibilities and activities will include:

• Support and promote a safety-first culture, ensuring technical health and safety considerations are embedded into designs from the outset
• Lead and coordinate engineering activities across one or more projects, working closely with internal and external stakeholders
• Create and maintain clear, achievable engineering project plans that support collaboration and transparency
• Provide technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams, fostering an inclusive and supportive team environment
• Manage engineering budgets by identifying risks and opportunities and supporting well-informed decision-making
• Act as a technical partner to customers and external parties, ensuring solutions meet agreed quality and performance standards
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering and project management practices, sharing knowledge and supporting the wider engineering community

Role Qualification and Skills

• Have a degree (or equivalent experience) in mechanical, electrical, controls, or a related engineering discipline
• Are experience working on complex engineering projects in a dynamic or system-critical environment
• Enjoy working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders
• Have a working knowledge of project management principles within an engineering context
• Communicate clearly and confidently, both verbally and in writing
• Are comfortable using standard digital tools (such as MS Office) to support planning and reporting
• Have profession engineering accreditation or have a desire and commitment to work towards professional registration (we will support you).

What we offer

• 28 days annual leave (excluding public holidays)
• Aviva Medical Cover
• YuLife - Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers
• A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression.
• Cycle to work scheme
• Yellow Nest is a salary exchange scheme that reduces childcare costs for parents and employers
• Pension with Aviva
• Access to Achievers an award-winning recognition platform that inspires to recognise your coworkers Where points are awarded that can be exchanged for a range of goods and discounts.

Diversity & Inclusion

Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age marital status or disability status. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, we are always happy to discuss or explore, any reasonable adjustments can be made to support your application.