Project & Qualification Manager (m/w/d) 100%

Your responsibilities:

The ideal candidate will be responsible to strengthen our team, we are looking for a Project and Qualification Manager (f/m/d) for our UPS production site. 

In this role you will manage exciting projects in an international industrial environment, lead the respective project teams, monitor, and control financial progress and budget and finally be the main point of contact towards our customers. 

You will accompany the projects from order to commissioning, support in technical questions and actively contribute to develop our Solution Center Project Management Team at Gutor. In addition, a part of your responsibility includes the lead of the necessary activities to qualify component and equipment, for the use in Nuclear Power Plants (NPP).

Your essential duties will focus on this main topics:

 Customer Management:

• Point of contact for Project and Technical Communication (except Customer Technical Leader/Manager is part of the Project Team) with the customer
• Involves the customer in decision-making processes and provides regular information on project progress (progress reports)
• Responsible for customer inspections (PIM/FAT/Packing Inspection)
• Identifies and creates additional business opportunities out of the ongoing project

Project Execution (Planning, Steering & Controlling):

• Ensures that Sales initiates the hand over to execution. Participates at Customer Kick Off Meeting and initiates internal project Kick Off Meeting.
• Handles the planning elements and milestones according Schneider Customer Project Process (ETO CPP) in coordination with the Project Planning, Operation, Engineering, Customer Service teams.
• Identifies and minimizes non-conformance costs (within the area of responsibility)
• Leads and organizes status meetings for a regular project status review with the project team if required. Close cooperation with the assigned Application Design Engineer or Customer Technical Leader/Manager (depending on the project setup).
• Monitors document submission status in cooperation with documentation teams.
• Ongoing monitoring of project status, early identification of discrepancies and initiating targeted measures/action
• Performs project close review (commercial, lessons learnt, best practice)
• Ensures a proper handover of the project to the Customer Service department

 Finance Management:

• Leads the project within the defined budget
• Has cost and margin responsibility for the project as defined at project start
• Initiates invoicing according to project progress and follows up payment status
• Reviews initial project calculation, highlight and clarify discrepancies
• Participates at monthly project control reviews
• Optimizes project profitability
• Reviews final project performance

Risk-, Opportunity- and Claim Management:

• Throughout the project life cycle, identifies, assesses and monitors all risk factors and opportunities
• Assesses the contract in terms of claim-relevant significance
• Work closely with Legal department for legal advise
• Devises suitable strategies for risk mitigation (elimination, reduction)
• Informs customer, management and project team about scope deviations
• Identifies and mitigates external claims (defines costs and argumentation, prepares claim and negotiates change order) in close collaboration with purchasing and Sales/Tendering
• Identifies Opportunities for additional business (define costing, prepares offers and negotiate change order) in close collaboration with purchasing and Sales/Tendering)

 3rd party supplier (sub supplier) Management:

• Involves purchasing at an early stage of the project
• Involves qualified subcontractors/partners in a timely manner
• Leads commercial clarifications with support of purchasing and procurement
• Rigorously monitors the performance of the subcontractors/partners, conducts timely escalation (in the event of qualitative shortfalls and problems in cooperation) and, where there are any discrepancies , initiates timely suitable action

 Leadership & Communication:

• Participates at internal project reviews and management information meetings concerning the project status
• Ensures targeted and full communication within the project team and with stakeholders on an international basis
• Establishes key relationships within the factory
• Listens to others and communicates in an effective manner

 Solution Support (except Customer Technical Leader/Manager is part of the Project Team):

• First point of contact related to technical questions raised by the customer
• Reviews technical specification
• Reviews technical comments (Approval Back) and validates which points will be incorporated or rejected
• Creates project execution related documents (schedules, ITP, Quality Plan, Vendor Document List, etc.)
• Close cooperation with Customer Project Technical Leaders/Managers

 Your qualifications:

• You have a bachelor’s degree (or higher) in electrical engineering, automation technology, industrial engineering, or comparable practical qualifications.
• Also, you have proven and applied knowledge in international project management and intercultural project teams ( ideally 5-10 years’ experience ).
• You have got professional experience with the implementation of nuclear business projects in an international environment - ideally you also convince with UPS knowledge.
• In addition, you have already gained experience in sales and are looking forward to inspiring your international customers with your ideas.
• Your fluent written and spoken French and English are the basis for your work in international teams.
• You are also willing to travel for longer business trips (also outside of Europe).

Our offer:

• Employees can organize their working hours flexibly, without a fixed start, end or core time; as long as the operational requirements permit this
• 40 hours working time + 1 hour make-up time / week (bridge days off as well as between Christmas/New Year)
• At least 25 vacation days
• Up to 5 vacation days per calendar year can be transferred to a long-term vacation account
• Very good social insurance benefits
• Above average parental leave
• Opportunity for time off/sabbatical of up to 12 months; as operational needs allow.
• Financial participation in gym subscription
• Recognized further education is supported, if they fit the corresponding job
• A Wellbeing team dedicated to the well-being of our employees that also organize events and activities for all

If you recognize yourself in this position, Andrea Gambus is looking forward to receive your application via WORKDAY : https://wd3.myworkday.com/gutor/d/inst/1$9925/9925$157.htmld