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Plant Project Engineer

Meridian Business SupportSowton, Exeter🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 26 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hands-on Project Engineer role offers a fantastic opportunity to drive significant improvements in a dynamic, expanding engineering facility, perfect for someone with strong project management and mechanical engineering skills. You'll thrive here if you enjoy overseeing complex installations, managing multiple projects, and collaborating with contractors to deliver impactful results. Apply now to contribute to exciting growth and innovation!

Quick Overview

Work Type
On Site
Schedule
Part Time
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

ProjectEngineer

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(both mechanical and electrical). The Project Engineerwillbe 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 years 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.

Skills

CAD

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