Project Engineer-Commercial

Overview

Job Title: Project Engineer

Company: Wrightbus

Job type: Permanent

Location: Wrightbus

Closing date: Tuesday 17 Feb 2026 08:00

Wrightbus is a rapidly growing company, and this expansion requires a Project Engineer to strengthen commercial and aftermarket support functions. You will develop a pipeline of new spare-parts offerings, identify part numbers, manage internal approvals and costings, and work closely with the Commercial Executive/Manager on product rollout and pricing. The role focuses on delivering key project proposals, meeting requirements, and providing excellent customer support.

• Manage all aspects of the spares product development process, including: adhering to project timelines, budgets, and business, sales, commercial and production requirements.
• Coordinate internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage project review meetings and produce weekly KPI reports.

• Ideation & Opportunity Development
• Create and maintain an Ideation Funnel for new spares package opportunities with risk/reward ranking.
• Lead regular meetings with stakeholders to generate ideas and report project status.
• Combine engineering feasibility with market opportunity to assess demand.
• Ensure clear definition of each opportunity before launch.

• Technical & Costing Preparation
• Agree BOM numbering/setup with Engineering.
• Develop technical BOMs with relevant departments.
• Analyse specifications to identify discrepancies and improvements.
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships and report bottlenecks.
• Obtain internal sign-off on BOMs.
• Submit proposals to customers and incorporate feedback.
• Release BOMs for costing and work with Procurement on pricing.
• Support preparation of costing summaries and pricing strategy.

• Internal Process Alignment
• Coordinate internal order walkthroughs for volume orders.
• Act as technical expert at bid stage.
• Analyse orders to verify projected vs actual costs.

• Customer Engagement & Promotion
• Prepare sample packs or promotional offerings and gather feedback.
• Create sales materials for rollout.
• Work with the Commercial Executive on fleet profiles, trial areas and promotional strategies.

• Order Execution
• Confirm BOM assumptions against customer Bus Number BOMs.
• Release final BOM to Engineering.
• Conduct post-project reviews and support continuous improvement.

• 3rd Level qualification in Engineering discipline and 3 years' experience in a similar role.
• Experience in project planning.
• Hands-on experience in designing/developing or product industrialization.
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience of commercial and technical contracts.
• Working with customers to agree and negotiate final requirements.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills and experience.
• Experience of working and managing across various departments to successfully complete tasks to tight deadlines.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to take a well-organised, methodical and flexible approach to work, prioritising the workload in order to meet targets.
• Able to analyse information and anticipate problems, raising issues in a timely manner to ensure problems are avoided.
• Self-motivated and able to adapt to changing priorities.
• Knowledge of office-based IT systems.

• 4% discretionary bonus
• Life Insurance
• Medicash scheme
• Local business discounts
• Free parking
• Canteen
• Career progression
• Professional development
• Flexitime

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