About the Voith Group
The Voith Group is a global technology company. With its broad portfolio of systems, products, services and digital applications, Voith sets standards in the markets of energy, paper, raw materials and transport & automotive. Founded in 1867, the company today has around 22,000 employees, sales of € 5,5 billion and locations in over 60 countries worldwide and is thus one of the larger family-owned companies in Europe.
For VPC, we're looking for you as a Project Manager.
Project Manager
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
External:
- Understand and advocate customer expectations
- in contract
- beyond contract
- create consensus in case of conflict
- Start in OTO / stay to the end
- Maintain trust based customer relationship
- Drive life-cycle handover
- Lead communication with customer and respond to inquiries and feedback
- Trigger proactive communication and aim for clarification in case of conflicts
- Direct claim management
Internal:
- Have strategic view
- Provide general, proactive coordination of full scope of the project including all contributions of involved parties in OTC
- Understand and drive the setup of the project (budget, risk, targets)
- Optimize budgets and schedule
- Initiate required measures: evaluate chances, mitigate risks
- Direct the development of schedule, e.g., buffer allocation by risk/chance
- Forward looking, proactive management of the schedule in regular formats together with master scheduler, controlling and all involved functions
- Understand, challenge, and orchestrate deviations
- Maintain a professional Project Reporting
Requirements:
- Critical thinking, solution oriented, business acumen, sense of urgency, lean thinking, striving for change, self-disciplined
- Knowledge in paper-machine business highly beneficial
- Experience in international project leading required preferably in plant business
- International work/study experience is highly beneficial
- Fluent English communication skills
- Mainstream ERP/reporting systems: knowledge of order-processing-systems (SAP), MRP and network scheduling, MS Office especially MS Project
- Professional communication and explanation skills
- Highly independent workstyle required
- Readiness for national and international travels required