Project Leader Engineering

Project Leader Engineering

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).