Senior Project Manager with Technical Insights and Commercial Flair

Gram Equipment; Kolding; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Gram Equipment is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead turnkey equipment projects and complete ice cream production lines for international food suppliers. You will be the “CEO of the project,” owning the contract from agreed requirements to customer acceptance and coordinating across sales, engineering, purchasing, operations and service to ensure successful delivery.

You bring an engineering background with project management education and international experience, plus strong financial

Qualifications

• Background as engineer or machinist with a project management education.
• Experience on turnkey deliveries for process industries.
• Willingness to travel internationally (40-50 days/year) and fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Act as the CEO of the project, owning all contract aspects from requirements to delivery and customer acceptance.
• Coordinate with sales, engineering, purchasing, operations and service to ensure on-time, on-budget execution.
• Handle deviations, new requests and align expectations internally and with the customer.

Skills

Project management

International experience

Engineering background

Financial understanding

Education

Engineering degree

Project management education

Job description

Gram Equipment is looking for colleagues to our team of dedicated project managers. The projects are ranging from individual equipment to complete ice cream production lines delivered to large international food suppliers.

The Senior Project Manager Role

The Senior Project Management role in Gram Equipment is a critical role in ensuring that we meet our promises to our customers as well as our internal need for profitability and well executed projects. The role is fundamentally the “CEO of the project” and responsible for managing all aspects of the contract from agreed contractual requirements and deliverables to ensuring customer acceptance at the end.

When the contract has been signed, you take over the responsibility for the project. You are working closely together with the customer to handle deviations and new requests and to make sure that they feel safe about the process and corporation. Alignment of expectations both internally and externally are very important.

When the customer changes direction or comes up with new ideas, you must be aware of what consequence it has in relation to the schedule and the commercial agreement. Internally, you orchestrate the flow throughout the entire project execution process, were many colleagues from sales, engineering, purchasing, operations, and service are involved.

Your good collaboration skills and your overview combined with an engaging and motivating approach means that you quickly build strong relationships both internally and externally in the organization.

Personal profile

You are structured with a distinct drive and the necessary energy to create momentum in the projects. You work purposefully and result-oriented, so that delivery is met, and satisfaction and quality are created around you.

Pro-activity, business understanding and following the projects to the final stage are vital competences you possess. Furthermore, you have a constructive impact and understand how to listen and meet others with an open mind.

It is important, you thrive on a busy and changing workday, where there is also time for a humorous angle on life. You want to make a difference and appreciate knowledge sharing and you will be a part of the continued development in the department.

Your background

You have a background as engineer, machinist or the like supplemented with a project manager education. You are an experienced project manager with international experience which counts for more than your formal education. The complexity in the job requires that you have a good financial understanding and a solid technical foundation.

Experience as project manager with turnkey deliveries or with equipment for the process industry, is a promoting competence. You probably already have international experience, and your private situation allows you to have 40-50 yearly travel days. Company language is English and if you besides that have some knowledge to German or Spanish it will be an advantage.

We offer

You are offered an exciting and challenging senior project manager position with great freedom in an international organization, where you can create significant and visible results. Gram Equipment has a good working environment with energetic and committed colleagues and room for both professional and personal development. Furthermore, we offer a competitive salary package according to your qualifications and an organization reflecting a sane work-life balance.

You will be based out of Kolding, Denmark.