Project Engineer, Quality Engineering

Project Engineer

£37,500 to £45,000 per annum, dependent upon skills and experience

Coventry, West Midlands

Pension, matched up to 6%

Life Assurance, 3 x salary

Career & Professional Development

Why join Evtec Automotive?

Evtec Automotive is more than just a parts manufacturer – we’re part of a movement towards a more sustainable and inclusive future. With key customers like Jaguar Land Rover, McLaren, and Ford, we’re at the heart of British automotive innovation.

We’re also a business with purpose – committed to making a positive impact through inclusive employment and creating opportunities that go beyond the bottom line.

The Role of Project Engineer

We’re looking for a hands-on Project Engineer to join our growing team. You will take the lead on coordination of all project elements including engineering, quality planning, installation, commissioning and final buy-off phases as well as ensuring the project remains within budget and in line with customer requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

Management responsibility for all elements of the projects to keep on track to timing plans, within budget as well as achievement to other relevant KPIs.

Work closely with the customers to react quickly to any changes to specification or project requirements.

Manage Customer and internal Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and participate in Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) processes

Apply specific technical skills as required to support customer or colleagues and assist design verification and sign off reporting.

Produce clear, focused and understandable explanations for change requests (PCR / ECN) and accurately cost any change in specification.

Anticipate any potential project risks, identifying and establishing corrective actions and performing root cause analysis to resolve problems.

Participate in Failure Mode and Effects Analyse (PFMEA), quality history reviews, robustness studies, etc.

What We’re Looking For

Experience working in an Automotive supplier into OEMs

Ability to work with multiple projects at various stages of product life cycle and plan and prioritise effectively

Proactive and able to cope with autonomous nature of the role to be able to decide the best way forward when confronted with issues.

Confident communicator across all levels of the business and with customers

Engineering background (education or experience) to help in reading engineering drawings and being able to work with customers to develop solutions to any technical issues that may arise