[Hiring] Project Leader Engineering @Vanderlande

Role Description

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 welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and experiences as we build a diverse engineering team.

• 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

Qualifications

• Have a degree (or equivalent experience) in mechanical, electrical, controls, or a related engineering discipline
• Are experienced 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 professional engineering accreditation or have a desire and commitment to work towards professional registration (we will support you)

Benefits

• 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 for 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

Company Description

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.