(International) Project Manager

Are you a natural leader who thrives on challenging projects?
As Project Manager at GEA, you will have the opportunity to combine your leadership skills and technical expertise in dynamic projects that truly make a difference. The focus of your projects will be on larger and complex refrigeration systems and heat pumps for leading international clients, particularly in the food industry. These high-quality installations not only make a significant contribution to the production processes of these clients but also often improve the sustainability of their operations.
Do you want to be part of an international company where you can make a direct impact and where your ambitions have plenty of room to grow? Then we are looking for you!

Responsibilities / Tasks

As International Project Manager, you are responsible for all activities related to project management, such as stakeholder management, planning, costs, scope, and contract management. You lead project teams and work closely with various internal departments such as sales, supply chain, and finance. You also maintain relationships with various clients.

Your tasks:

• Monitoring the project in terms of technical, financial, and organizational aspects.

• Together with your project team, delivering engineering, procurement, logistics, on-site installation, and commissioning.

• Performing project risk assessments and analyzing and mitigating bottlenecks.

• Maintaining customer contact throughout the entire project lifecycle.

• Managing change orders (additional and reduced work).

• Delivering and transferring the project to the client in accordance with contractual requirements.

• Communicating with internal stakeholders and sister companies (many projects are carried out with GEA NPE (Nutrition Plant Engineering) entities).

• Documenting agreements in writing and preparing the critical path (Gantt chart).

• Pursuing variation orders when the client does not meet agreed commitments.

Your Profile / Qualifications

• You have completed a technical bachelor’s degree (applied sciences) or master’s degree, supplemented with project management experience in a technical environment.

• Knowledge and experience in industrial refrigeration is a plus.

• You are a team player, communicatively strong, and fluent in both Dutch and English (spoken and written).

• Depending on project complexity, you demonstrate inventiveness, creativity, technical insight, flexibility, decisiveness, organizational skills, and adaptability to achieve better results or prevent issues.

Competencies:

• Customer focus.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Strong collaboration skills.

• Decisiveness and drive.

Our offer to you:

• A challenging international role within a leading and innovative organization.

• Competitive salary, aligned with your experience and background and 8% holiday payment.

• 27 vacation days and 13 ADV days based on full-time employment.

• Extensive opportunities for personal development and training.

• Participation pension fund (PME).

• Possibility of collective health insurance.

• Compensation for your sports subscription.

What happens once your application is submitted?

• You will receive an email when your application has been processed. One of our Talent Acquisition Partners will review and verify if the application meets the qualifications of the role. If your application has been successfully verified, you will be invited to a first interview either virtually or face-to-face. Usually after the second/third interview round we will make a decision.
  Please do not hesitate to reach out to our team at any stage of your application.

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Then please click apply above to access our guided application process.