Software Project Engineer

As a Senior Project Engineer, you will play a key role in coordinating engineering activities, managing project deliverables, and ensuring programme milestones are achieved. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, you will be responsible for driving project progress, supporting testing and validation activities, managing documentation, and engaging with stakeholders across all levels of the business.

This role offers an excellent opportunity for an engineer who combines strong technical awareness with effective project management and communication skills.

• Location: Derby
• On Site: Hybrid (4x onsite)
• Clearance: Clearable 
• Experience Level: Mid Level

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the delivery of engineering projects, ensuring activities are completed in line with programme schedules and quality requirements.
• Coordinate engineering, testing, and project teams to ensure successful delivery of project milestones.
• Facilitate technical and project meetings, ensuring actions are clearly defined and tracked to completion.
• Monitor project progress, identify risks and issues, and support the development of mitigation plans.
• Manage and maintain project documentation, ensuring records are up to date and delivered within agreed timescales.
• Coordinate testing and validation activities, ensuring requirements, resources, and schedules are aligned.
• Support engineering change and modification processes, ensuring approvals and reviews are completed efficiently.
• Act as a key point of contact between engineering teams, project management, and external stakeholders.
• Prepare project reports, KPI updates, and presentation materials for management reviews.
• Drive collaboration across teams to promote high-quality, right-first-time delivery.

Required Skills:

• Experience working within engineering, transportation, rail, infrastructure, or regulated environments.
• Proven ability to coordinate multiple workstreams within complex projects.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience managing project documentation, reporting, and governance activities.
• Ability to identify and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise competing demands.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.

Required Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent military experience.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience within the rail or transportation sector.
• Understanding of systems engineering, testing, validation, or engineering assurance processes.
• Knowledge of engineering change control and configuration management.
• Experience working with distributed or international project teams.

Why join us? 

We bring together entrepreneurial, tech-driven people to deliver innovative solutions for leading companies.

At ALTEN, you’ll work on exciting projects, supported by ongoing learning, mentoring, and clear career development tailored to your goals.

Join a passionate team and help build tomorrow, today.

In short you get: 

• A personalised career path and a rewarding management style 
• A huge diversity of engineering projects and industries
• Private Medical Insurance
• Cycle & Tech Scheme 
• Employee assistance programme
• Life insurance & Pension Scheme
• Social atmosphere, regular gatherings & team buildings
• Flexible way of working (role dependent)

We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant & actively encourage applications from members of the Armed Forces community, including veterans, reservists, service leavers, and military spouses/partners. We recognise the value of military skills and experience and are committed to ensuring that no applicant is unfairly disadvantaged during our recruitment and selection processes. 

ALTEN is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and values the strength that comes from a global mix of backgrounds and perspectives. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of background or protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. 

This role may require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website Gov.UK. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed, or rejected . Details of this will be discussed with you at interview.