Project Engineer, Systems Engineer

50000 - 55000 per annum

Peterborough, England

Permanent

Project Engineer Peterborough | Permanent | Competitive Salary + Excellent BenefitsA leading engineering and technology organisation operating within highly regulated and safety-critical industries is seeking a Project Engineer to join its growing product development team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on advanced communications and electronic systems used by customers across aviation, defence, transportation and critical infrastructure sectors worldwide.

You will play a key role in coordinating development activities, supporting project delivery, and ensuring the successful progression of innovative products from concept through to introduction into service. The organisation has a long-established reputation for technical excellence, innovation, and investment in its people, offering outstanding career development opportunities, flexible working arrangements, and exposure to cutting-edge technologies.

The Role As a Project Engineer, you will coordinate and organise engineering development activities, working closely with technical specialists, project leads, and multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex internal development projects. You will support project planning, scheduling, risk management, resource coordination, and technical reporting, helping ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to the highest quality standards.

Key Responsibilities Coordinate and support internal engineering development projects

Maintain and update key project documentation including quality plans, release plans and statements of work Support project planning and scheduling activities alongside technical and project leadership teams

Identify and coordinate project resource requirements

Track project progress and ensure development activities remain aligned to agreed roadmaps

Monitor risks, issues and mitigation activities, escalating concerns where required

Liaise with technical authorities and engineering teams to provide accurate project status reporting

Support the generation and management of project requirements

Coordinate procurement and availability of development equipment, prototypes and engineering materials

Manage ordering and delivery of prototype hardware and associated project items

Organise and facilitate technical and project review meetings

Drive delivery of project milestones and roadmap activities

Support engineering resource planning and departmental improvement initiatives

Manage one or more concurrent engineering development projects

Contribute to continuous improvement activities across the engineering function

What We're Looking For Applicants should ideally hold a degree in Engineering, Electronics, Communications, Software, or a related technical discipline, together with experience working within a product development environment.

Essential /

Desirable Experience Project coordination or engineering project support experience

Product development lifecycle knowledge

Engineering design and development environments

Project planning, scheduling and progress tracking

Risk identification and mitigation activities

Technical documentation and reporting

Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration

Working within safety-critical or highly regulated industries

Advantageous Technical Experience Experience or exposure to one or more of the following areas would be beneficial:

Communications systems and modulation techniques

Electronic circuit design and development

Analogue, digital and RF electronics

Embedded software and firmware developmentFPGA technologies

Software development methodologies

Programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Python, JavaScript or HTML Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
Network technologies and…