Reports to: Project Manager Engineering
Location: Manchester/North West
Contract Type: Permanent
Introduction to the role
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.
Role Responsibilities
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 welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences as we build a diverse engineering team.
Your responsibilities and activities will include:
- 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
Role Qualification and Skills
- Have a degree (or equivalent experience) in mechanical, electrical, controls, or a related engineering discipline
- Are experience 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 profession engineering accreditation or have a desire and commitment to work towards professional registration (we will support you).
What we offer
- 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 of 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.
Diversity & Inclusion
Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age marital status or disability status. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, we are always happy to discuss or explore, any reasonable adjustments can be made to support your application.
Skills Required
- Degree or equivalent experience in mechanical, electrical, controls, or a related engineering discipline
- Experience working on complex engineering projects in a dynamic or system-critical environment
- Collaborative experience working with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders
- Working knowledge of project management principles within an engineering context
- Clear and confident verbal and written communication skills
- Comfort using standard digital tools such as MS Office for planning and reporting
- Professional engineering accreditation or commitment to work toward professional registration
Vanderlande Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanderlande and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanderlande.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with day‑one eligibility in many U.S. roles and employer‑paid protections that reduce out‑of‑pocket exposure. Feedback suggests medical, dental, and vision are a clear strength.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting in the U.S. Feedback suggests this forms a solid pillar of the total rewards package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, sick leave, and paid holidays are characterized as generous relative to peers. Compressed workweek options in some roles further support time away and recovery.
Vanderlande Insights
What We Do
Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses and in the parcel market. Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems are capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. Its systems are active in more than 600 airports including 12 of the world’s top 20. More than 52 million parcels are sorted by its systems every day, which have been installed for the world’s leading parcel companies. In addition, many of the largest global e-commerce players and retailers have confidence in Vanderlande’s efficient and reliable solutions. The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements. Vanderlande’s extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology. Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 7,500 employees, all committed to moving its customers’ businesses forward at diverse locations on every continent. With a consistently increasing turnover of 1.8 billion euros, it has established a global reputation over the past seven decades as a highly reliable partner for future-proof logistic process automation. Vanderlande was acquired in 2017 by Toyota Industries Corporation, which will help it to continue its sustainable profitable growth. The two companies have a strong strategic match, and the synergies include cross-selling, product innovations, and research and development.
