Senior Project Manager

GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 60 countries contribute significantly to GEAs success come and join them! We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.

Why join GEA

GEA Groups Liquid & Powder Technologies (LPT) division is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead complex beverage processing projects from quotation through commissioning and handover. This role is responsible for managing scope, budget, schedule, and customer satisfaction while coordinating cross-functional teams across global GEA entities. The Senior Project Manager ensures strong project execution, oversees risk and change management, and drives a culture of safety, ownership, and continuous improvement to deliver high-quality processing solutions.

• Managing large projects (usually > 5Mio. $) as a Project Manager according to the GEA Project Management Guidelines as defined in the PPP.
• Overall responsible for the execution of a large project being involved through all phases of the project from the initial quotation phase right up to commissioning, handover and project close down - often cross-cultural and sometimes across different GEA companies.
• Overall responsible for the financial performance and result of the large project, ensuring the best outcome for GEA by creating and maintaining the detailed project budget and invoicing plan.
• Coordinates activities of the project organization while being responsible for the project success and providing strong direction for the project team.
• Responsible for ensuring a strong culture of ownership within the project team in meeting the project objectives if applicable beyond their own GEA entity.
• Planning and maintaining project schedule by monitoring project progress including the work breakdown structures and activity lists of all project contributors and margin goals.
• Responsible for completion of phase gate reviews and reporting of the development in the project to multiple stakeholders e.g. steering committee, customer. Manages complex stakeholder relationships.
• Responsible for ensuring that tasks are coordinated and carried out in a manner which is in line with GEAs standard practice and procedures and meets with the customer expectations as far as commercially possible.
• Responsible for completion of large projects according to scope, cost, quality and schedule deliver project within budget.
• Responsible for the customer management and satisfaction during the execution of the large project
• Ensure that the site work is managed by the site manager and that H&S is implemented at all times. Attend client meetings on site to facilitate the commissioning of GEA supplied equipment and proving all the KPIs. Usually High amount of installation hours.
• Responsible for Claim Management & Change order management.
• Perform Risk Management to mitigate and minimize project risks.
• Motivate, capture and evaluate Lessons Learned of a project at a team perspective.
• Create Procurement plan with supply chain to schedule fabrication and component receipt to meet project schedule. Ultimately responsible for the RFQ process for installation, contractor selection, contractor management.
• Creates and maintains the project resource plan and communicates resource needs to relevant line managers.
• Ensures project documentation and correspondence is stored on company servers according to GEA requirements.
• Lead a large team of project engineers without direct line reporting relation.

• Bachelor's Degree within engineering
• More than 5 years of Project Management experience from large technical projects.
• The ideal candidate holds a PMI certification or another relevant project management education
• Background experience in the chemical, dairy, food or beverage projects are highly desirable.
• Experience working on large technical projects.
• Strong in project management methodologies and solid skills in commercial project management.
• Experience in handling legal and contractual matters.
• Experience in negotiation and dispute resolution.
• Successful track record of finishing large projects with regards to results, timing, customer satisfaction and quality.
• Direct people management through influential leadership capabilities. Potentially also through others. Leader of others.
• Demonstrates commercial awareness exploring risks and opportunities of the business. Strives to maximize commercial benefit.
• Breaks down the problem. Takes action to avoid future problems. Solves highly complex problems.
• Wants to do the job well. Strives for higher standards. Improves team performance.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to handle large teams of project engineers establishing clarity and direction as well as building a good positive team.
• English (fluent written and verbal) language skills are a pre-requisite. The ability to communicate in other languages is a plus.

The typical base pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $90,000 - $130,000 per year. GEA Group has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States.

The pay range is not a guarantee of compensation or salary. The estimated range is the budgeted amount for the position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, location, qualifications, and other job-related reasons. You may be eligible for additional rewards, such as discretionary bonus (based on eligibility) and/or equity awards.

Working at GEA Group has significant benefits:

12 Paid Holidays
PTO Paid time off
Medical Plans
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Health Savings and Spending Accounts
Tuition Reimbursement
401k with excellent employer match
Wellness Incentive Program
Employee Assistance Program

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