Senior Technical Engineer

A Global Logistics business is recruiting a Senior Technical Engineer to join their site Engineering team in their Heathrow operation.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate current facility design/material handling equipment and assess capacity against forecasted volumes.

• Work with all necessary departments to determine the process bottlenecks, improvement opportunities and solutions.

• Work with local and global Engineering to review designs against Global Standards and evaluate technical alternatives.

• Work closely with H&S to ensure compliance with industry standards.

• Provide technical input into BCA’s and produce BCA’s as required.

• Support supplier tendering processes of projects.

• Develop, plan and align technical concepts for MHE with necessary departments, including drawings, process flows and associated data/information.

• Engage equipment suppliers to develop detailed designs and quotations, based on agreed requirements and specification, and build project budgets ready for approval.

• Manage projects from approval through to installation and commissioning ensuring solutions are delivered on time, to budget, with minimal disruption to operations.

• Manage suppliers and technical staff to ensure resources and processes are in place to fulfil the Engineering team objectives.

• Develop and manage task prioritisation to ensure end user operational benefits are delivered from the resources assigned.

• Develop and conduct project management, communication and templates to ensure standardisation within the Engineering team.

• Manage budgets and expenditure including budget approval, tracking, purchase requests and invoicing.

• Engage with key stakeholders - operational and cross functional teams, supervisors, management and Senior Management to gain alignment and buy in to improvement opportunities.

Key Skills:

• Working knowledge of facility designs and material handling equipment and multi-tier controls systems.

• Good track record of managing projects from design through to installation & commissioning on time and within budget.

• Ability to lead a multi skilled team, including Engineers/Technical staff, external suppliers, project team members and utilise limited resource effectively.

• Experience of developing and tracking budgets.

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

• Proficient with Auto Cad.

• Minimum of 5 years Engineering experience / Project Management.

• Some experience of managing small, multi skilled teams.