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Lead Realisation Engineer

Employer
Ocado Engineering
Location
Hatfield, Hertfordshire (Head Office)
Closing date
31 Jan 2019
Reference
AE-SD-LRE-99

Job Details

Our innovative and award winning Automation Engineering department are growing at a rapid rate and we need someone with both technical nous and engineering project management knowledge, if you have a strategic mind-set and can communicate well under a growing programme then please apply.

What are you looking for?

 The lead realisation engineer takes automation engineering project management accountability to make a new CFC a reality. They are accountable for the delivery of all central automation aspects (TDI, MSC, and Product Engineering & Engineering Planning). They are the central conduit for all automation engineering aspects of a new CFC. This is delivered by using matrix resources from automation engineering teams and working with colleagues in other departments. The implementation (fit out of Automation) wherever the new CFC be in the world, is covered by our colleagues in Engineering Implementation, with the realisation engineer remaining with the project to ensure full support until ‘go-live’. This is not a role for a project manager, this requires an engineer that can project manager who understands and get hands on with automation engineering detail.

As a lead, you provide both technical and people leadership / management for the CFC you personally work on and those delivered by realisation engineers in your team. Setting example, coordination of work ensuring we have global consistency, in our processes, and deliverables in an efficient and scalable manner.

What will I be doing?

  • Be the link and liaison between teams based at different locations and time zones
  • Communication & reporting across teams and to project stakeholders
  • Stakeholder management
  • Ensuring programmes stay on plan especially during technical design and manufacturing phases.
  • Ensure projects stay on budget and meet engineering specification
  • Responsible for many commercial aspects of the project; including formulation of the capital budget; negotiation on costs; contractual arrangements, management of variations, working closely with procurement, finance and admin colleagues
  • Risk identification and mitigation, anticipating engineering challenges
  • Support Automation Engineering Implementation
  • Take ownership of engineering problems, seeing them through to resolution
  • Work to and follow all CDM guidance or international equivalent, both external (CDM Regulations 2015 and associated ACOPs) and internal (CDM15, HS&E policy and associated Arrangement Policies). To seek guidance from the HS&E team where there is uncertainty.
  • Workflow management of cross functional teams
  • Working with planning colleagues to create and maintain realisation programmes
  • Work closely with product engineers who provide product technical detail and support to projects

As a lead

  • Accountable for deliverables of your team
  • Effectively manage and coordinate realisation engineers
  • Develop the individuals in the team
  • Ensure resiliency within team

Establishing, maintaining and championing both engineering and project best practice and standards

What do you want me to bring to the party?

  • Be the link and liaison between teams based at different locations and time zones
  • Communication & reporting across teams and to project stakeholders
  • Stakeholder management
  • Ensuring programmes stay on plan especially during technical design and manufacturing phases.
  • Ensure projects stay on budget and meet engineering specification
  • Responsible for many commercial aspects of the project; including formulation of the capital budget; negotiation on costs; contractual arrangements, management of variations, working closely with procurement, finance and admin colleagues
  • Risk identification and mitigation, anticipating engineering challenges
  • Support Automation Engineering Implementation
  • Take ownership of engineering problems, seeing them through to resolution
  • Work to and follow all CDM guidance or international equivalent, both external (CDM Regulations 2015 and associated ACOPs) and internal (CDM15, HS&E policy and associated Arrangement Policies). To seek guidance from the HS&E team where there is uncertainty.
  • Workflow management of cross functional teams
  • Working with planning colleagues to create and maintain realisation programmes
  • Work closely with product engineers who provide product technical detail and support to projects

As a lead

  • Accountable for deliverables of your team
  • Effectively manage and coordinate realisation engineers
  • Develop the individuals in the team
  • Ensure resiliency within team

Establishing, maintaining and championing both engineering and project best practice and standards                   

The Ocado Way

At Ocado, in everything we do, we strive to offer the very best to our customers - the best service, the best quality and the very best customer experience. That begins with each and every one of us and how we behave.

Our values are Ocado’s DNA; they act as a guide for everything we say and do. ‘The Ocado Way’ develops our values into the details about the way we do things - how we act and work together with each other and our customers. It describes how you need to behave at work to make a real and positive impact on our success.

To read more about The Ocado Way and please click here.

Tell me again about your amazing benefits

  • Pension
  • Life Assurance
  • Private Medical insurance
  • 23 days holiday, increasing to 25 with 3 years’ service
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Free Shares
  • Opportunity to participate in Sharesave and Buy as you earn scheme
  • Discounted shopping on Ocado.com, Smart Pass and destination site
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DISCLAIMER: This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

Company

Ocado was established in the UK over 16 years ago and listed on the London Stock Exchange in July 2010. We are the world’s largest dedicated online grocery retailer with over 580,000 active customers shopping with us today. Our objective is to provide our customers with the best shopping experience in terms of service, range and price, which builds a strong business and delivers long term value for our shareholders. 

We have developed a unique end-to-end operating solution for online grocery retail based on proprietary technology and IP, suitable for operating our own business and those of our commercial partners. 

The world is changing fast, driven by different shopping habits and ever more advanced technology for the consumer. Grocery is the largest of all retail segments and is moving online. Moreover, the rapid growth of shopping using mobile devices opens new opportunities. We are well positioned to take advantage of these long-term structural trends for the benefit of our customers, partners and shareholders.

With everything from websites to warehouses designed in-house, our departments are specialists in a wide range of technologies.

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