Project Engineer

About

We are looking for a Project Engineer that will be responsible for the entire production process, from design to delivery for one or several projects.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor and escalation point for your team, and customers, identify and remove roadblocks.
• Develops a relationship with the decision makers of customers and promotes the company to increase sales revenue.
• Responsible for all customer satisfaction.
• Monitors programmes progress and reports this in regular meetings with managers and any stakeholders funding the programme, resolving any problems as they arise.
• Assigns tasks to team members to ensure project objectives are completed as required.
• Develops regular budgets and schedules to support the program's implementation.
• Creates and implements guidelines for evaluating the program's strengths and areas where improvement is required.
• Oversees all project plans and implements job procedures, so construction schedules and coordination of projects are completed to a high level.
• Carries out site walks, client risk analysis and health & safety risk assessments, to enable the company to provide a professional and cost-efficient service.
• Oversees customer orders internally and coordinates the procurement of materials, supplies and services, and controls timely delivery to jobsite.
• Determines, from review of various information, necessary changes in design, contract price, implementation plan or other activities and implements same.
• Devises a plan of action to remedy any project problems and implements plans to assure project profitability.
• Selects and monitors the performance of subcontractors.
• Keeps self, superiors and subordinates informed of all work and project progress.
• Maintain all records of job status, job changes, material flow and other control records and supervise the preparation and processing of reports for internal and external use.
• Assist management in forecasting and ensure proper job management and cost control by reviewing financial statements.
• Monitor financial and other reports and work with other management tools to address project problems.
• Responsible for ensuring the team complete all paperwork including as-builds, purchase orders, job close out reports, handover documentation, commissioning sheets, internal company records and that jobs are handed over correctly, timely and to standards.
• Analyse areas of risk to avoid disruption by identifying and managing critical paths and risk areas.
• Establishes contingency plans and identifies trigger events and assumes responsibility for initiation of corrective actions.
• Ensuring jobs are invoiced correctly and timely, profitable and revenue is received.
• Work in compliance with the company’s Health and Safety standards and requirements; with the safety of self and others in mind at all time.
• Prompt completion of timesheets, expenses and any associated paperwork for the accurate processing of costs to relevant projects.
• Take responsibility for adherence to SWI technical standards and / or customer standards on all projects.
• Build and maintain technical relationships with suppliers / partners.
• Coordinate with the Account Executive and Service Management for the development of Service level agreements and promoting five-star service for the Client.
• Ensure all projects that are delivered have undergone a detailed technical review at the design stage, and again validated at the Commissioning stage.
• Support new company initiatives and assist in business development efforts.
• Travel to sites to meet clients and build relationships.
• Other reasonable duties may be requested or assigned.

Requirements

• Field experience of commissioning medium to large size enterprise level access control systems and enterprise level CCTV systems.
• Substantial experience working in the Electronic Security System industry.
• Wide range of customer base (datacentres, office buildings, warehousing, etc.)
• Exposure to enterprise level access control systems to at least a basic qualification on Lenel, S2, CCure, Openpath, Feenics, AMAG, ProWatch, Genetec.
• Exposure to enterprise level CCTV and Video Management Systems to at least a basic qualification on Milestone, Genetec, Avigilon.

Location

The work is based and not limited to Ile-de-France office location, which is a typical office environment.

Work Arrangement

There is no exact detail as we must flex the work location based on the needs of the business, but it is expected that the candidate will be present in the office for 20% of their working time, with the balance being at various customer premises and / or on site. It is expected that due to the breadth of the customers and locations, a fair amount of time will be spent overseas and travelling.