Project Manager Engineering, Heathrow Baggage Systems Design Authority
Job TitleProject Manager Engineering, Heathrow Baggage Systems Design Authority
Job Description
Reports to: Senior Manager Solutions Engineering
Location: London - Heathrow
Contract Type: Permanent
Introduction to role
With more projects than ever underway with Heathrow Airport, we wish to further develop our engineering design and delivery capability with the addition of a senior engineering management role. The Projects Engineering Manager - Baggage Systems Design Authority will provide overall ownership and accountability of the technical solution design of each project from sales phase through to final acceptance and beyond. Alongside the Engineering Project Leaders and Managers who are accountable for the design and delivery of specific projects.
Role Responsibilities
The PME will operate across the portfolio to champion the Customer’s needs, protect the delivery of customer benefits and operational resilience whilst driving quality and ensuring adherence to the scope of the projects. The PME will facilitate the technical integration of the project-led changes across the baggage systems to ensure overall efficacy of the projects’ delivery, and to protect the baggage operation, its resilience and performance. The PME will also be actively supporting a safe working environment by championing, encouraging, and leading by example, a safety-first culture. Supporting and sharing safety learning.
Your responsibilities and activities will include:
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Ownership of the technical solution design and delivery, ensuring robust systems are in place for the following:
The creation of our solution designs that are safe to implement, are serviceable in use, economical to build and maintain, comply with the objectives of sustainability, have due regard for the environment, and meet their intended function and performance
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Consistent application of Engineering Plans, Issues and Risk Register on every project
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Manage the process for the allocation of resources to the projects and to manage the certification of our systems design for conformity and compliance against customer and statutory requirements
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Coordinate and oversee multi-disciplinary Technical Design Reviews for all projects at suitable intervals, ensuring that the principals of “Safety by Design” and “Circular Economy” are applied throughout the design development stage
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Standardised approach to design and buildability reviews and formally recording comments from internal and external stakeholders
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Standardised approach to identify errors or omissions and compliance with standards
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Demonstration of our commitment to the delivery of the “Heathrow 2.0: Connecting People and Planet” sustainability strategy, and the relevant customer design stage Environmental and Sustainability requirements
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Accountable as the senior duty holder electrical engineering for design under the Electricity at Work act
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Overall accountability of Scheme Design and Production Design function for allocated projects
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Challenging the team on design methodology of solutions for mechanical, electrical and control systems
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Ensuring design teams are integrated across projects
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Ensuring teams are implementing lessons learned in our solutions
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Approving designs, submissions and certificates of compliance
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Feeding back and working with the wider PME and PLE teams to ensure competency is maintained within discipline for mechanical, electrical and control systems
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Ensuring compliance with UK statutory requirements
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Overall accountability of baggage systems design
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Overall PME technical lead and customer champion
Role Qualification and Skills
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Knowledge from a systems design and build perspective, with a depth of technical knowledge in mechanical, electrical or control systems perspective
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Evidence in working in a technical project leader role, familiar with scope, planning, budget and risk & opportunity management
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Previous exposure of speaking with both the customer’s language and that of the engineers' team
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Pragmatic attitude and be able to balance quality, time, cost and technology
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Delivery focused with a determination to achieve our commitments
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Ability to coach and support employees to get the best out of themselves
Previous experience in a matrix management environment
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Confident in driving change to adopt best practice, high quality in our designs
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Chartered Engineer registered with UK Engineering Council or similar professional body
What we offer
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28 days annual leave (excluding public holidays)
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Bupa Medical Cover
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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
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A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression.
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Cycle to work scheme
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Pension with Aviva
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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, colour, 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.
Top Skills
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.
