Jobs at GEA Group

Drive the design, optimization, governance, and standardization of global People processes and service solutions. Translate business requirements into scalable designs, improve employee and manager experiences, and collaborate with Product Owners, People Technology, AI, and People Services teams. Govern process documentation, operating models, compliance, and service standards, with a focus on payroll and time management. Advise senior stakeholders, promote automation, and lead continuous improvement across global HR operations.

Manages accounts receivable billing for spare parts and service projects, including invoice creation, auditing, transmission, customer account setup, billing issue resolution, and customer inquiries. Coordinates with customer service, collections, sales, and regional teams to correct errors and support timely payment. Requires accurate multitasking, ERP and payment portal proficiency, independent work, and collaboration during the US Eastern Time shift.

Develop and maintain Workday HR reports, dashboards, KPIs, and analytics; validate and reconcile data from Workday, SAP, and external systems; automate HR and payroll reporting processes; improve reporting standards, data quality, and workflows; and partner with global HR stakeholders on projects, system enhancements, and data-driven decision-making.

Lead and mentor the Project Engineering team while managing assigned process and project engineering efforts. Ensure projects meet budget, schedule, scope, and technical specifications; support risk mitigation, engineering standards, pre-sales input, and continuous improvement across chemical/process engineering projects. Coordinate customer engagement and resource planning.

Supports sales and project execution for evaporation and crystallization process systems in chemical, food, and pharmaceutical industries. Develops process designs, flow diagrams, heat and mass balances, equipment specifications, utility requirements, and technical proposals. Reviews designs, leads software FATs, supports commissioning, troubleshooting, HAZOPs, audits, customer training, and supplier evaluations. Collaborates with sales, procurement, project management, engineering, customers, and global technology teams while ensuring regulatory, safety, environmental, and industry-standard compliance.

Leads North American service sales for the Food and Dairy segment, including spare parts, repairs, field service, upgrades, customized projects, and service agreements. Develops and implements sales strategies, manages key accounts, identifies cross-sell and upsell opportunities, coordinates with equipment sales teams, prepares quotes, negotiates contracts, attends trade shows, and provides market feedback. The role requires frequent customer travel, strategic planning, strong relationship-building, and experience selling services or capital equipment.

Leads GEA’s Farm Technologies business in Italy, overseeing sales, service, P&L, market strategy, dealer development, customer relationships, compliance, and change initiatives. Manages the country leadership team, translates divisional strategy into local execution, identifies growth opportunities, represents the business with external stakeholders, and drives organizational performance, employee engagement, and continuous improvement.

Leads change management and internal communication for international transformation initiatives. Responsibilities include stakeholder and change impact analysis, communication strategy development, leadership advising, workshop facilitation, governance support, project tracking, resource planning, and cross-functional coordination. The role supports SAP S/4HANA transformation programs and requires fluent German and English, strong organizational skills, and occasional travel.

Owns project execution from contract through completion, managing governance, budgets, timelines, cash flow, risks, quality, and change control. Leads cross-functional teams, coordinates internal stakeholders, and serves as the primary customer contact through FAT and SAT. Manages customer expectations, steering committees, status reporting, and project alignment while contributing to continuous improvement. The role supports pharma and healthcare projects in an international environment.

Leads the design, development, testing, commissioning, and support of industrial automation solutions for process manufacturing customers. Responsibilities include PLC, HMI, SCADA, OT, and MES engineering; technical leadership across project lifecycles; customer engagement; FAT and SAT; troubleshooting; documentation; cybersecurity and functional safety compliance; training; and mentoring engineers. The role also supports sales, manages budgets and service agreements, drives standardization and digitalization, and requires customer-site commissioning and travel.

Provides technical and commercial sales support for aftermarket service opportunities involving industrial processing equipment. Responsibilities include identifying parts, preparing quotations and proposals, supporting spare parts and modernization projects, promoting service offerings, maintaining CRM information, assisting negotiations, and collaborating with sales, engineering, project management, and customers. The role requires understanding technical processes and service capabilities, customer relationship skills, and 10% travel to client sites.

Project Engineer supports filtration projects from pre-award activities through engineering, installation, commissioning, and startup. Responsibilities include equipment specification and sizing, technical documentation, design reviews, risk and cost management, vendor coordination, customer communication, site troubleshooting, testing, and operator training. The role collaborates with project managers and cross-functional teams, ensures regulatory and GEA standards compliance, and may manage assigned projects. Travel up to 30%, including some international travel, is required.

Senior Process Engineer supporting sales and project execution for evaporation and crystallization systems. Responsibilities include process design, equipment sizing, technical proposals, engineering documentation, heat and mass balances, P&IDs, supplier evaluations, commissioning, troubleshooting, customer training, safety reviews, and technical oversight. The role collaborates with sales, procurement, project management, engineering, customers, and international technology teams, with approximately 10–20% travel.

The Financial Controller coordinates daily controlling and accounting activities, supports month-end close and reporting, ensures accurate P&L and balance-sheet accounting, screens bank payments, prepares tax and legal declarations, manages intercompany reporting and invoicing, and automates routine tasks. The role also supports entity management and broader company initiatives while developing into a business partner.

Administers payroll transactions, employee updates, taxes, deductions, benefits, expatriate payroll, and compliance activities. Manages leave and attendance records, reporting, system rules, data quality, and vendor service levels. Supports audits, HR stakeholders, policy updates, process improvements, employee inquiries, and HR operations projects while coordinating multiple priorities and ensuring accurate, timely service delivery.

Reviews vendor payments, forecasts weekly cash requirements, processes urgent invoices, reconciles vendor accounts, resolves disputes, coordinates with shared services and business partners, supports 1099 reporting and audits, reviews approval matrices, and contributes to cross-functional process improvement projects.

The Junior Recruiter manages full-cycle recruitment across the USA and Canada, partnering with hiring managers and HR leaders. Responsibilities include sourcing candidates, conducting interviews, building talent pipelines, creating recruitment campaigns, supporting employer branding, improving recruitment processes, monitoring hiring KPIs, and ensuring a positive candidate experience. The role requires collaboration across cultures and functions, with travel to support recruiting activities and employer branding initiatives.

Supervises the PTS-Sanitary application engineering team, coordinating workloads, deadlines, governance, coaching, and deliverable reviews. Performs application engineering duties by reviewing RFQs, preparing equipment proposals and cost estimates, researching pricing, developing specifications, checking process calculations and engineering documents, coordinating with internal teams and vendors, and supporting customer presentations. The role requires technical-commercial judgment, process engineering knowledge, strong communication, and more than five years of relevant experience.

Drives B2B sales and business development for GEA separation technology solutions across energy, renewable resources, and oil and gas markets. Responsibilities include lead generation, customer presentations, technical solution support, account development, market research, CRM management, and ownership of the sales cycle through project delivery. The role requires extensive regional travel, customer engagement, quota achievement, contract negotiation, and collaboration with internal teams.

Own financial controlling for GEA Farm Technologies’ Nordic business, partnering with regional managing directors and management teams. Responsibilities include forecasting, budgeting, planning, month-end and year-end closing under IFRS, P&L and balance-sheet analysis, management reporting, KPI analysis, business cases, and divisional performance controlling. The role also supports finance process standardization, reporting-tool development, digitalization, and international performance-management initiatives.