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Automation Engineering Project Manager

Employer
Ocado Engineering
Location
Welwyn Garden City (Remus)
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
11 Apr 2019
Reference
AEPM2019

Job Details

Ocado’s Product Development team is revolutionising the next wave of automation within engineering and as a result, we're looking for a talented Automation Engineering Project Manager to join us.

This role will have technical responsibility for the delivery of automation projects to support growth, reduce operating costs and improve efficiencies for our 24/7 Customer Fulfilment Centres (CFCs).

Key accountabilities:

  • Generating stage gated development plans in order to to project manage the process from planning to 'go live'
  • Vendor selection and making sure that appropriate and effective contractual arrangements are in place
  • Vendor management 
  • Matrix management of appropriate internal business-wide resource 
  • Risk management – owning and management of technical risk register
  • Taking product business requirements and turning into technical requirements
  • Ability to give effective and engaging presentations on engineering topics to technical and non-technical stakeholders (up to and including Board level)
  • Project closure –  ensuring that product and associated documentation meet the criteria for entry into the product catalogue

Minimum skills/experience required:

  • An Engineering qualification, to HND or Degree level
  • Good technical ability (or experience) relating to automation hardware
  • Proven track record in system or technical design and delivery
  • Experience in managing project budgets
  • Ability to quantify or qualify project risk against business impact and take appropriate decisions
  • Very good negotiation skills
  • Experience in vendor selection 
  • Experience in making tactical and strategic based decisions
  • Experience in giving effective presentations to stakeholders

Preferred (in addition to minimum):

  • A project management qualification (APM PMQ or PRINCE2)
  • Experience with electronics, robotics and vision

Benefits Package

  • 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 schemes
  • Discounted shopping on Ocado.com, Smart Pass and destination site

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.

 This role may require travel to other sites.

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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