Engineering Project Manager

Hexcel is the industry leader in the manufacturing of advanced composite materials, including carbon fibre, woven reinforcements, resins, prepregs, honeycombs and additive manufactured parts. We are inviting you to join Hexcel in various manufacturing sites, sales offices and R&D centers around the globe. We are seeking an Engineering Projects Manager for our Duxford, UK location.

• Lead and manage the full project life cycle for specialist projects and installations, facilitating technical decisions and identifying all factors involved e.g., strategic, high‑value and novel projects such as CMF1 re‑energization.
• Support the proposal process (conception to completion) including planning and ensuring health and safety standards are maintained.
• Coordinate relevant support and collaboration required from colleagues and manage project‑related sub‑contractors on site.
• Support the Projects, Engineering and Maintenance Manager to ensure tender specifications are within budget.
• Ensure that project implementation is timely, and that the quality of the product design (supplied equipment) is fit for purpose, compliant with business and customer requirements and in‑line with project specifications.
• Fully assess engineering risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Provide consistent and regular updates and reports to the Projects, Engineering and Maintenance Manager.
• Work closely with the Projects, Engineering and Maintenance Manager to plan resources and recommend sufficient headcount to keep projects on time, ensuring key stakeholders are involved at the right time.
• Consistently promote high standards of conduct and work performance for all company and third‑party personnel working on the project to ensure full compliance with company procedures and statutory regulations.
• Identify and mitigate risks and successfully deliver important development projects within agreed time, cost, and scope such as R&T projects.
• Line‑manage the projects team, including performance reviews, training requests, and ensuring targets are met.

• Mechanical Engineering qualification/professional status.
• Experience in project engineering/management in a multi‑national manufacturing organization.
• Commercial awareness to ensure projects are working to budget and schedule.
• Product and industry knowledge of plant equipment and automated systems.
• Working knowledge of commissioning processes, and managing and mitigating risks utilizing specific techniques for engineering projects.
• Planning of resources to ensure key stakeholders are engaged and resources are readily available when needed, and management of costs for engineering work within the allocated budget.
• Able to handle multiple, competing priorities.
• Effective communicator with people at all levels of the business, written and verbal.
• Driven, enthusiastic, autonomous, and self‑motivated.
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the country where the position is based.