Project Engineer
| Posting date: | 30 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £52,000 to £54,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Pension, Company Bonus, Life Assurance |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 01 March 2026 |
| Location: | Exeter, South West, EX2 7HF |
| Company: | Meridian Business Support |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 59069173 |
Summary
Project Engineer
The Opportunity:
This role would suit somebody with excellent Project Management skills who's used to working in a fast paced Mechanical Engineering business and can oversee the specification, sourcing, purchasing, installation and commissioning of new machinery. The Project Engineer will be used to managing mutiple projects simultaneously, have the ability to work with contractors and complete projects in a timely manner. A really interesting, varied and hands on role in a rapidly changing and expanding engineering facility.
Job Responsibilities:
- Identifying, specifying, sourcing, and purchasing machines and equipment.
- Supervising sub-contractors, ensuring project implementation to time and cost whilst complying with all Company and H&S requirements.
- Creating project plans to support machine rearrangement, equipment installation, improvement, and cost reduction projects.
- Identifying and implementing cost reduction and method improvement opportunities.
- Purchasing parts and equipment for improvement works, collating receipts and raising purchase requisitions.
- Carrying out plant engineering activities, with minimal supervision, across the site including building/mechanical infrastructure and manufacturing equipment.
- Providing technical expertise, including data analysis, planning and execution to improve equipment availability and asset utilisation for the site.
- Identifying and making improvements to the reliability of equipment to reduce reoccurring faults and downtime.
- Assisting Maintenance undertaking fault finding across the plant and on the equipment.
- Implementing and driving reliability excellence (REX) on critical equipment.
- Creation and maintenance of technical files for new and existing equipment.
Preferred Skills:
- Qualified to a HNC or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering with a minimum of 5 year’s relevant technical experience within an Engineering environment.
- Ability to identify and solve to root cause, repetitive reliability problems and write maintenance procedures
- Ability to collect and analyse overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) on critical equipment
- CAD experience, full Microsoft suite and ideally Oracle useful.
Pay and Benefits:
25 days annual holiday
Secure on-site parking
Excellent contributory pension
Health care cash back plan
Life assurance
Company bonus scheme
8am-4pm or 8.30am-4.30pm Monday to Friday
Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.
The Opportunity:
This role would suit somebody with excellent Project Management skills who's used to working in a fast paced Mechanical Engineering business and can oversee the specification, sourcing, purchasing, installation and commissioning of new machinery. The Project Engineer will be used to managing mutiple projects simultaneously, have the ability to work with contractors and complete projects in a timely manner. A really interesting, varied and hands on role in a rapidly changing and expanding engineering facility.
Job Responsibilities:
- Identifying, specifying, sourcing, and purchasing machines and equipment.
- Supervising sub-contractors, ensuring project implementation to time and cost whilst complying with all Company and H&S requirements.
- Creating project plans to support machine rearrangement, equipment installation, improvement, and cost reduction projects.
- Identifying and implementing cost reduction and method improvement opportunities.
- Purchasing parts and equipment for improvement works, collating receipts and raising purchase requisitions.
- Carrying out plant engineering activities, with minimal supervision, across the site including building/mechanical infrastructure and manufacturing equipment.
- Providing technical expertise, including data analysis, planning and execution to improve equipment availability and asset utilisation for the site.
- Identifying and making improvements to the reliability of equipment to reduce reoccurring faults and downtime.
- Assisting Maintenance undertaking fault finding across the plant and on the equipment.
- Implementing and driving reliability excellence (REX) on critical equipment.
- Creation and maintenance of technical files for new and existing equipment.
Preferred Skills:
- Qualified to a HNC or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering with a minimum of 5 year’s relevant technical experience within an Engineering environment.
- Ability to identify and solve to root cause, repetitive reliability problems and write maintenance procedures
- Ability to collect and analyse overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) on critical equipment
- CAD experience, full Microsoft suite and ideally Oracle useful.
Pay and Benefits:
25 days annual holiday
Secure on-site parking
Excellent contributory pension
Health care cash back plan
Life assurance
Company bonus scheme
8am-4pm or 8.30am-4.30pm Monday to Friday
Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.
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