You will report to the Director of Process & Sustainability Innovation and work closely with specialists and commercial stakeholders. You will manage and lead the development projects from idea and project initiation to the final prototype test and hand over the fully matured product to the business. To sum up, your tasks will include but not be limited to:

• Practice lean but effective project management in a weak matrix organization
• Lead, navigate and inspire our specialists
• Providing transparency by hosting regular meetings and reporting key figures to our organization
• Plan the best ways of executing projects while making sure to utilize our specialists’ resources optimally
• Through understanding the technical details in the projects, you will guide the technical decisions in our projects

To be a success in this role, we expect you to be creative and innovative in your working style. It is important that you, with a result-oriented approach, can balance theory with practice to develop best in class solutions for our customers. Furthermore, we imagine that you can see tick some of the boxes below:

• You hold a B.Sc.,M.Sc. or Ph.D. degree with a strong track record in product development in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Process, Chemical engineering, or a related field.
• We are flexible regarding your academic background (given our vast domain from novel process solutions to equipment and electronic device development). As a Senior Project Manager you will have opportunities to engage in many different areas utilizing your specific strengths.
• We seek technical brilliance paired with a genuine passion to innovate and introduce new products to the market. A natural curiosity and eagerness to venture into unfamiliar territories is crucial.
• We expect you to have technical know-how coupled with Project Management experience. If you have successfully created tangible products, services, or software - we highly value such real-world achievements. If you have a PMI certificate or similar, it will be a plus, but it is not a requirement.

Application

Please apply via the indicated link. Please note that GEA exclusively uses electronic recruiting, and only applications received through our application system will be considered.