Food & Beverage Industry - Senior Project Manager

Food & Beverage Industry - Senior Project Manager

About the position

GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 50 countries contribute significantly to GEA’s success – come and join us! We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.

Your responsibilities and tasks

• Managing large projects (usually > 10Mio. €) as a Professional Project Manager.
• Overall responsible for the execution of a large project being involved in the initial quotation phase right up to commissioning, handover and project close down - often cross-cultural and sometimes across different GEA companies.
• Overall responsible for the financial performance and result of the large project, ensuring the best outcome for GEA.
• Ensure the organization of the project is defined while being responsible for the project success and providing strong direction for the project team

Responsible for promoting a strong culture of ownership within the project team in meeting the project objectives.

Planning and updating project schedule by monitoring project progress including the man-hour estimates (done by execution team) and margin goals.

Responsible for reporting the development in the project to multiple stakeholders i.e. steering committee, customer, main internal stakeholders.

• Responsible for ensuring that tasks are coordinated and carried out in a manner which is in line with GEA’s standard practice and procedures and meets with the customer expectations as far as commercially possible.
• Responsible for completion of large projects according to scope, cost, quality and schedule – deliver project within budget.
• Ensure project deliverables are generated in a timely manner according with the commercial and technical offer.
• Responsible for the customer management and satisfaction during the execution of the large project.
• Ensure that the site work is managed by the site manager and that H&S is implemented at all times. Attend client meetings on site to facilitate the commissioning of GEA supplied equipment and proving all the KPI’s. Usually High amount of installation hours.
• Responsible for Risk Management to mitigate and minimize project risks.
• Motivate, capture and evaluate Lessons Learned of a project at a team perspective.
• Create Procurement plan with supply chain to schedule fabrication and component receipt to meet project schedule.

Ultimately responsible for contractor selection, based on the outcomes of the RFQ process i.e. the technical evaluations conducted by the execution team and the commercial evaluations carried out by the procurement team.

Oversee the contractor management done by the responsible functional areas.

• Lead a large team of project engineers without direct line reporting relation.
• Willingness and ability to travel approximately 25% domestically and internationally.

Your profile and qualifications

Educational Background

• M.Sc. or B.Sc. in Mechanical, Chemical, Process, Electrical Engineering or in lieu of degree applicable related experience in a similar role.
• The ideal candidate holds a PMI certification or another relevant project management education.

Professional Knowledge and Experiences

• Experience in intercultural management.
• Experience working on multinational projects.
• Strong in project management methodologies and solid skills in commercial project management.
• More than 5 years of project management experience from large technical projects.
• Experience in handling legal and contractual matters.
• Experience in negotiation and dispute resolution.
• Successful track record of finishing large projects with regards to results, timing, customer satisfaction and quality.

Other Skills & Competencies

• Direct people management through influential leadership capabilities. Potentially also through others. Leader of others.
• Demonstrates commercial awareness exploring risks and opportunities of the business.
• Breaks down the problem. Takes action to avoid future problems. Solves highly complex problems.
• Wants to do the job well. Strives for higher standards. Improves teams’ performance.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to handle large teams of project engineers establishing clarity and direction as well as building a good positive team.
• English (fluent written and verbal) language skills are a pre-requisite.
• The ability to communicate in other languages is a plus.
• Proficiency in Office 365 suite and Microsoft Project.

Equal Opportunity Statement

GEA is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will therefore receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, religion, world view, national origin, genetics, disability, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other protected characteristic required by applicable law. Applicants with disabilities are welcome and will be given special consideration if they are equally qualified.