Job Description

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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.

• PM certifications.
• Sector experience with regulated/safety‑critical environments.

Your Benefits

• A comprehensive onboarding phase.
• 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.

Interested?