The Technical Project Manager is responsible for industrial project management covering cross functional alignment, scheduling, resource planning and progress follow up of manufacturing process equipment and material handling projects for my clients advanced factories. Responsible for delivering an overall manufacturing process functionality in time, quality, and cost from design phase to hand-over to manufacturing and maintenance team.

• Responsible for describing, documenting, and approving the designated project scope delivering an overall manufacturing process functionality, from purchase orders to hand over to manufacturing.
• Responsible for fulfilling designated project in line with the project's scope, time and cost.
• Responsible for delivering the project scope through cross functional departments and tracking of the cross functional project timeline.
• Responsible for securing that following key organizational disciplines involved in a manufacturing process equipment project are fully aligned in scope, time and cost.
  • Process engineering expert o Equipment buyer project management
  • Construction design management
  • Automation engineering
  • Material flow engineering
  • Factory layout engineering o Network engineering
  • CE-expert and safety engineering
  • Maintenance engineering
  • Product design engineering (R&D)
  • Equipment quality engineering
  • Project logistics o Manufacturing technicians
  • External equipment suppliers
• Responsible for development and management of a detailed engineering timeline completely aligned with all organizational disciplines.
• Responsible for development and management of a detailed equipment commissioning and ramp up scenarios jointly with Engineering Managers and Commissioning Managers.
• Responsible to drive and document manufacturing process equipment constructability reviews.
• Responsible for driving technical equipment design reviews
• Responsible for aligning and securing cross functional project continuity and sharing project information with involved organization disciplines.
• Responsible for equipment project management from design phase to hand-over to manufacturing and maintenance team including implementation and coordination of re-occurring project follow ups and steering meeting.
• Responsible as the risk focal point for the designated project, ensuring completion to close out of all risk processes, reporting and follow up.

• Responsible for project budget follow up for the designated equipment project in a detailed engineering level to secure decisions.
• Responsible for securing long term and short team cross functional project resource planning and equipment project prioritization.
• Develop an industrialization project toolbox jointly with Engineering managers to standardize the activities across different projects and feeds it into the Factory Blueprint.
• Report project status and dependencies to program manager

Required education/experience

• BSc or MSc degree in mechanical, industrial or chemical engineering
• Extensive project leadership experience in fast moving demanding industrial environments
• Experienced in multi-cultural working environment
• 3+ Years of Experience as Project Manager

Specific skills, Abilities and Personal Success Factors (e.g., specific programs, languages, certifications etc.)

• Excellent English written and oral skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Project
• Multi-tasking
• Highly execution-oriented
• Excellent time management skills
• Strong skills as communicator, both internally as well as externally to suppliers
• Ability to work under high pressure and tight deadlines
• Structured and organised
• Ability to work as team player as well as independently
• Flexible personality with skillset to manage unclear tasks or directives
• Good cross functional collaboration and problem-solving skills
• Sense of quality
• Highly execution-oriented
• Driven and passionate to motive teams achieving demanding targets
• Has a "can-do" attitude and an entrepreneurial spirit
• Ability to manage challenging organizational situations and handling conflicts
• PMi or PMP Project Management certification is a plus.

ersg are an equal opportunities employer; we are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all job applicants. We do not discriminate against applicants on the basis of age, sex, race, disability, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or religious background; all decisions are based on merit.