px Group

Project Engineer

px Group  •  Sunderland, GB (Onsite)  •  17 hours ago
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Job Description

Project Engineer

Application Deadline: 20 July 2026

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Sunderland

Reporting To: Head of Project Engineering

Our Business

pxFairport (pxF) is a project delivery specialist offering full turnkey EPC and OEM solutions to the bulk material handling and plant processing markets. Our services cover the aggregates, processing, tunnelling, mining, quarrying, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, ports, and food sectors, globally. With unrivalled industry expertise, pxF manages, specifies, engineers, designs, supplies, installs, operates, and maintains market leading equipment for complex material handling needs, guaranteeing performance excellence, reliability, and optimal operating costs.

The Opportunity
We are now recruiting for a Project Engineer. The primary function of the role is to coordinate and specify the engineering and technical elements of project delivery.

You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence.

Key Responsibilities

  • Attend internal handover meetings and review bid documentation, contract, schedule, cost tracker, and client specifications.
  • Ensure all output from the Engineering group complies with project specifications and statutory regulations, confirming all safety aspects of the system design are achieved.
  • Review the project structure and maintain alignment throughout project.
  • Compile and maintain the Scheme Level and Assembly Level Scope documents.
  • Responsible for the development and adherence to the work breakdown structure (WBS), ensuring engineering deliverables and activities are on time and aligned to the project requirements.
  • Evaluate, organise, and prioritise engineering functional workload in line with the project schedule and obtain weekly progress status for all tasks from functional areas, and feed it back to the Project Manager and Planning Manager.
  • More responsibilities can be found on the Role Profile.

Minimum Requirements:

  • BEng (Hons) in Engineering (preferably Mechanical or Chemical Engineering), or equivalent.
  • Previous experience in an engineering field.
  • Knowledge of the construction and process industries and applicable standards.
  • Understanding of control system operating principals and directives.
  • Planning, managing, and reporting project tasks and responsibilities.
  • Strong attention to detail and committed to quality performance and output.
  • Ability to apply logic to programmes.
  • Ability to assess situations quickly, diffuse confrontation, and drive pragmatic decisions.
  • Strong communicator with internal and external customers and with good presentation skills.

What you will receive from us:

25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Contribution towards eye test and glasses
Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym membership discount
Long Service Awards
Employee recognition scheme – ELITE Awards
Employee Assistance Programme
Flexible Benefits Package
Onsite parking

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.

px Group

About px Group

px Group is a fully integrated infrastructure solutions business which delivers net zero and stakeholder success through elite performance in the safety, availability, reliability and efficiency of energy infrastructure, industrial processes and related commercial activities - unlocking value for our customers as a trusted partner. Part of the Ara Partners portfolio of companies, Ara Partners is a private equity firm specialising in industrial decarbonisation investments.

Operating on a 24/7 basis, providing services at this level requires professionalism and competence coupled with a safety and environmentally conscious mind set to deliver operational excellence.

This capability has been shaped by a 25 year history in managing, operating and maintaining some of Europe’s most significant industrial infrastructure including two of the UK’s largest and most strategic gas processing facilities.

px Group also owns Saltend Chemicals Park at the heart of the UK’s Energy Estuary in the Humber, home to several world-leading manufacturing businesses such as Mitsubishi Chemicals, INEOS, and Vivergo Fuels and the location for Equinor’s hydrogen production plant with carbon capture, the anchor project for Zero Carbon Humber. This introduction of hydrogen at our Saltend Park, and our continuous search with all current and new industrial users for further synergies in energy and resource use will help to transform the park into a future proof Green Energy Park.

We are committed to the Energy Transition, and reducing emissions across all our operations, including the sites we manage and operate on behalf of our clients. We are growing internationally and are involved in some of the newest flagship waste-to-fuels projects including ReNew’s plastic recycling plant in Teesside and GIDARA Energy’s advanced biofuels facility in Amsterdam which will convert non-recyclable waste into bio-methanol.

Industry
Oil, Gas & Mining
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Stockton On Tees, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
pxlimited.com
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