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🥝 Hands-On Engineering Project Lead

Elev8 Recruitment | norwich, United-Kingdom | Posted May 19, 2026

Job Description

Most engineering project roles are really admin jobs with Gantt charts attached.

This one isn’t.

This business develops complex electro-mechanical products in-house. Engineers still solve problems properly here. Projects involve real technical uncertainty, prototypes, testing, redesigns, competing priorities and constant coordination between mechanical, electronic and software teams.

They are looking for someone who can sit in the middle of that environment and keep things moving.

Probably someone who started life in engineering and gradually became the person projects naturally gravitated towards.

You might currently be:

  • A Senior Design Engineer running projects unofficially
  • A Technical Project Engineer
  • An Engineering Project Manager in a smaller business

The key thing is this:

You understand how engineering development actually works.

You know prototypes fail.

You know drawings chan...

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