Technical Project Engineer

Location:Reading
Rate:Up to £80 per hour (Inside IR35)
Contract:6-month Contract

The Role:

We are seeking Technical Project Engineers to assist on a large Digital Engineering project who have experience in one or more of the following: Synthetics, ITEA, TLS, and Process & Integration

Please note: Due to the nature of the work, you will need to already hold a high level of UK security clearance

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate technical activities across engineering teams, suppliers, and stakeholders.
• Manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and technical interfaces.
• Support project plans, schedules, technical roadmaps, and resource planning.
• Track delivery against milestones, objectives, and quality criteria.
• Provide technical leadership and first-level decision-making.
• Support change and configuration management.
• Facilitate technical reviews and milestone assessments.
• Provide project reporting, forecasting, and progress updates.
• Work closely with architects, engineers, and delivery teams to ensure alignment.

Experience required

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• Holding an APM, PRINCE2, PMI, Agile, or scheduling qualifications would be advantageous.
• Experience working within Aerospace & Defence, ideally delivering architecture or engineering projects within MOD, Defence Digital, or UK aerospace environments.
• Experience planning and delivering complex technical projects or engineering work packages.
• Strong knowledge of project planning, scheduling, critical paths, milestones, and dependency management.
• Experience with estimation, resource/capacity planning, forecasting, and reporting.