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

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

As Team Lead Project Management and Engineering (m/f/d) you will be responsible for leading and overseeing the delivery of all projects within the entity as well as managing our German Project Management and Project Engineering Teams.

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.