Project Management Coordinator (100%)

We shape the new future with you …

Schweizer Salinen AG produces and processes high-quality salt for various applications at the three saltworks Riburg, Schweizerhalle, and Bex. We employ around 300 people who are embarking on the journey into Industry 4.0. Our family-like SME culture with the corporate values enthusiasm, agility, respect, and performance guides us in our daily work and actions.

To ensure salt supply for the coming decades, we are investing in our production sites as part of a significant transformation. For this entrepreneurial realignment, we are looking for a practical Project Management Coordinator in the area of Project Organization SalinaFutura. 

Your role: You coordinate the large-scale project SalinaFutura operationally and relieve the overall project manager. You manage processes, ensure clear meetings and decisions, keep project documentation up to date, and provide reports, controlling data, and risk registers on time. You also support the onboarding of new team members and ensure smooth communication – both internally and externally.

What you can achieve with us

• Coordination and control of project processes - Defining, introducing, and ensuring planning and work processes, coordination within the project team as well as with the general planner.
• Organization of meetings and decision-making processes - Building and maintaining an efficient meeting structure, preparation, minute-taking, and follow-up of decisions, tasks, and pending items.
• Ensuring documentation and data basis - for change management implementation, schedules/progress reports, project risk registers, design and procurement coordination, etc.
• Supporting communication and onboarding - Promoting efficient project communication internally, accompanying the hiring of new employees, organizing onboarding.

Your qualities as a professional and person

• You have a university degree or comparable further education.
• You bring at least 10 years of experience in the project environment.
• Ideally, you have a PMP/PMI or IPMA certification.
• You have solid experience in CAPEX or industrial plant projects, preferably in process industry, chemistry, life sciences, or infrastructure.
• Project management methods, scheduling, cost and progress controlling, risk management, and change management are familiar territory for you.
• Technically, you are skilled and familiar with process engineering, plant construction, civil engineering, and automation.
• You work independently and with high personal responsibility, are communicative, team-oriented, and consistently apply high-quality standards.
• You can present complex issues clearly and maintain an overview as well as a measure of composure and humor even in challenging situations.
• You have very good German skills and can communicate in another national language.

What we offer you

• Flat hierarchies and great freedom in shaping your work.
• A corporate culture that promotes and inspires. 
• Sports offers within the company and other attractive benefits. 
• Attractive employment conditions with a top pension fund.

With us, you are not just a number but an important link and cornerstone for the active further development of our organization. Short decision-making paths and proximity to management make this role an exciting challenge. Don’t miss the chance to get to know us! We look forward not only to your resume but to you as a personality and person.