Team Lead Project Management and Engineering (m/f/d)

Team Lead Project Management and Engineering (m/f/d)

Flensburg

Are you ready for something new, solution-oriented and keen to work in a future-oriented and sustainable industry that is driven by innovation and the latest technologies? Then look no further! We are currently looking for a Team Lead Project Management and Engineering (m/f/d) to lead our German Project and Engineering Team at our HQ located in Flensburg!

This is how you make a difference

• Ensuring targets for time, cost, quality, and margin are achieved.
• Acting as the primary escalation point for critical or underperforming projects, defining and driving recovery actions.
• Ensuring accurate project forecasting, including EAC/ETC, cash flow, and milestone commitments.
• Enforcing global project management standards, governance, and gate processes consistently at BU level.
• Managing and developing the project management and engineering organization locally, including coaching and performance management.
• Reviewing and challenging project plans, risks, schedules, and commercial assumptions throughout the lifecycle.
• Safeguarding project profitability through disciplined change management and contract compliance.
• Leading customer and internal steering meetings, supporting escalation management and key decision‑making.
• Ensuring high‑quality project reporting and data accuracy for global portfolio and management reporting.
• Providing structured feedback and improvement proposals to the Global Head of Project Management based on BU experience.

You are

• Effective in managing stakeholders and customers, including steering committees and escalation handling.
• Able to lead and recover complex or troubled projects, applying structured recovery and escalation plans.
• A strong people leader and coach, with proven experience in developing, guiding, and performance-managing project managers, engineers, and support roles.
• Someone with a strong risk management and issue resolution mindset, with proactive identification and mitigation of delivery and commercial risks.
• Clear and structured when communicating and able to provide reliable project status, forecasts, and escalations to global management.

What you bring to the table

• A university degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field with a solid foundation in project delivery, commercial management, and project economics.
• 6+ years in project delivery with 2+ years leading PM teams, delivering complex multi‑disciplinary projects (€2–20M+) and recovering troubled projects.
• Strong commercial and financial control (contracts, change/claims, EAC/ETC, cash), proven governance enforcement, and experience with customer steering, supplier management, and handover to service.
• Proven expertise in end‑to‑end project delivery, ensuring time, cost, quality, and margin objectives are met.
• Solid knowledge of project planning and control techniques (critical path, milestone trend analysis, risk & dependency management).
• Experience applying and enforcing global PM governance frameworks, standards, and gate processes at BU level.
• Competence with project management tools and reporting (e.g. MS Project, Power BI consumption, portfolio dashboards) and data accuracy discipline.
• Experience with MS Project/Power BI/Teams and building PM capability.
• A fluency in German and English.

Also an advantage

• PM certifications.
• Sector experience with regulated/safety‑critical environments.
• Entry into an innovative and future‑oriented industry.
• Flat hierarchies and an open‑door philosophy.
• Flexible working time models and a 37‑hour week.
• Hybrid working up to two days a week.
• Ergonomic workplace equipment.
• E‑bike leasing for you and your partner.
• An offer portal (corporate benefits) with discount codes for numerous brands from all areas of life.
• An annual health budget that can be used for many different services, including visual aids, prescription medication and professional teeth cleaning.