Engineering Project Administrator
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10 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Red Ember Recruitment is seeking an Engineering Project Administrator on behalf of our client in the defence and electro-optical research and development sector located in Pretoria.
The successful candidate will provide project coordination technical administrative support and documentation management across multidisciplinary engineering programmes. This role is essential in ensuring efficient project execution accurate reporting configuration control and seamless communication between engineering production suppliers and management.
Key Responsibilities
Project Coordination & Support
- Assist Project Managers with planning scheduling and monitoring project tasks
- Interpret project requirements ensuring alignment with engineering needs
- Coordinate daily with optical mechanical electronic software and systems engineering teams
- Support project timelines Gantt charts risk registers and action item logs
Documentation & Configuration Control
- Maintain project documentation specifications minutes and change requests
- Control versioning and configuration of engineering documentation
- Compile documentation packs for SRR PDR CDR and qualification reviews
- Format and prepare SRS ICD ATP test reports and technical documents
Project Reporting & Communication
- Prepare internal status reports dashboards milestone summaries
- Document project meetings and track follow-up actions
- Facilitate communication between engineering teams suppliers and management
Operational Procurement & Production Support
- Interface with production to track build progress and update schedules
- Assist procurement with quotes requisitions and supplier follow-ups
- Track budgets hours costing and resource usage
- Support preparation for serial production and compliance processes
General Project Office Functions
- Arrange travel customer engagements demos and internal meetings
- Provide administrative and logistical support to engineering teams
- Assist with estimates quotations and related documents
- Perform any other reasonable tasks as required
- Occasional international travel
Requirements
- Diploma or Degree in Project Administration Project Management Business Administration or related field
- Minimum 5 years project coordination experience in engineering technical R&D or manufacturing sectors
- Experience supporting product development
- Proficiency in MS Project Jira SharePoint or similar
- Advanced MS Office skills (Excel Word PowerPoint)
- Ability to work across multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Defence/aerospace experience advantageous
- Strong organisational communication and documentation skills
- Ability to handle multiple priorities in a high-tech environment
Required Skills:
degree (electronic or computer). Software design and implementation experience. Experience in product development. Software system engineering experience. Specialist knowledge (required / preferred): Object orientated programming experience (C) (required). Embedded systems software development (required). Experience in image processing (preferred). Machine learning algorithms development (preferred).
Company Industry
IT Services and IT Consulting
Key Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Construction Experience
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Word
- Sage
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Project Management
- Sharepoint
- Microsoft Project
- Administrative Experience
- Project Coordination
