Project Engineer

Job Title:SeniorProjectEngineer 

Reporting to:Senior Manager, Projects(Packaging) 

Location:Primary location:Auto Coding Solutions, Daresbury. Secondary locations:As required by the business 

Job Summary 

TheSeniorProjectEngineer manages ACS customer projects from order handover through development, deployment, installation, commissioning, support transition and close-out. The role co-ordinates internal teams, customers and third parties to deliver projects safely, on time, to agreed scope, and with effective control of cost, risk, change and project information. 

The role alsomanagespre-order project review, bringing delivery, resource and risk considerations into business decision-making. TheSeniorProjectEngineer builds strong customer relationships, provides clear project leadership and applies commercial judgement to manage change, protect project performance and support successful customer outcomes. 

Key Tasks and Accountabilities 

Project Management 

• Manage ACS customer projects from order handover through planning, delivery, go-live support and close-out. 

• Prepare and maintain project plans, milestones, resource requirements, customer actions and delivery dependencies as required. 

• Coordinateinternal and external project teams, including third parties and customers. 

• Monitor progress against scope, cost and schedule, resolving issues and escalating risks where required. 

• Manage standard and complex projects using a level of control appropriate to project risk. 

• Maintain clear project records, decisions, actions and supporting information. 

Governance, Risk and Change Control 

• Managepre-order governance, co-ordinating the required business inputs and recording decisions and actions. 

• Lead project governance following order, ensuring reviews take place at the required project stages. 

• Maintain visibility of project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and outstanding actions. 

• Assess and control changes affecting scope, cost, delivery dates, technical requirements, resources or customer commitments. 

• Ensure governance decisions, exceptions, actions, owners and due dates are recorded and followed up. 

• Escalate material risks, missing information or decisions outside agreed authority. 

Customer and Stakeholder Co-ordination 

• Act as the main project contact for the customer following order handover. 

• Coordinate customer information, site readiness, access, production downtime, training and acceptance requirements. 

• Provide clear project updates covering progress, decisions, risks, actions and changes. 

• Follow up actions and maintain information flow across internal teams and external stakeholders. 

• Manage customer expectations and escalate dependencies or blockers affecting delivery. 

Commercial Control and Close-Out 

• Monitor project hours, costs, site days, follow-up visits and commercial performance. 

• Maintain records of scope changes, variation requests and commercial impacts. 

• Coordinate customer acceptance and transition of the live system into Support. 

• Review project performance, including the reasons and costs of follow-up visits. 

• Complete project close-out and ensure remaining actions have clear ownership. 

• Hold project lessons-learned reviews and record findings in the central log. 

Job Requirements 

• Strong project management capability in a software, controls, automation, systems integration or technical project environment. 

• Strong planning, organisation, risk management and change-control skills. 

• Able to facilitate cross-functional decisions without assuming ownership of functional evidence or commercial approval. 

• Able to coordinate multiple teams and maintain progress without direct line authority. 

• Commercial awareness, including project cost, scope, resource and schedule impacts. 

• Confident communicating with customers and internal stakeholders. 

• Able to challenge unclear requirements, incomplete information and unrealistic delivery commitments. 

• Competent in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word and wider Microsoft 365 applications. 

• Able to travel to customer sites when required. 

Experience 

• Previous project management experience is required. 

• Experience managing customer projects through planning, delivery, implementation and close-out is required. 

• Experience facilitating governance or cross-functional project reviews is desirable. 

• Experience of project governance, risk management, change control and cost tracking is desirable. 

• Experience in software, controls, automation, systems integration, engineering or manufacturing is desirable. 

• Experience in food production, packaging, coding, labelling or traceability systems is desirable.