Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage engineering projects, including overall integrated project plans, product cost, technical details, resource management, budgets, and tooling investments.
- Collaborate with engineering and product management teams to align customer requirements with internal technical requirements.
- Prepare and conduct weekly standing meetings with internal teams and external vendors/contractors to plan and track deliverables.
- Balance both in-depth details and high-level executive summary regarding project specific requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement of project management tools and methodologies.
- Ensure compliance with applicable legal and or safety standards.
- Embrace and help drive the Lean culture.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in applicable field.
- Excellent communication skills, proficient in English
- Preferred: Recognized project management certificate, i.e., CAPM®, PMP®, or Prince 2®.
- Proven experience with project management.
- ERP System knowledge (SAP, preferred)
- Knowledge of product development lifecycles.
- Experience interfacing with cross-functional support teams.
- Experience with utilizing Lean methodologies and root cause analysis.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in applicable field
- Excellent communication skills, proficient in English
- Project management certificate (CAPM, PMP, Prince2)
- Proven experience with project management
- ERP system knowledge (SAP preferred)
- Knowledge of product development lifecycles
- Experience interfacing with cross-functional support teams
- Experience with Lean methodologies and root cause analysis
What We Do
Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries. We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers. Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry. With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis. No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally. Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales
