Technical Senior Project Manager

About the job

In this key role, you lead an interdisciplinary project team and are responsible for the technical overall integration of strategic, complex, and construction-intensive large-scale projects in the food industry, typically exceeding 150 MCHF. This particularly includes new factory constructions, site developments, as well as extensive renovation and expansion projects with high structural and technical integration requirements.

What you achieve

• You bear overall responsibility for the technical planning and successful realisation of demanding and construction-intensive large-scale projects from approximately 150 MCHF.
• You lead and coordinate an interdisciplinary project team and take on the professional leadership of the sub-project managers.
• You manage the relevant interfaces and ensure that costs, deadlines, quality, resources, and risks are always monitored.
• You create well-founded, risk-based decision-making bases for project clients, steering committees, and management.
• Together with operations, production, engineering, construction, logistics, utilities, automation, and IT, you define and coordinate the technical requirements.
• You develop and evaluate technical as well as economic solution variants and derive decisions and recommendations for further action.
• You accompany tenders, awards, and contract negotiations as well as approval and authorisation procedures.
• From commissioning through acceptance to documentation and handover to operations, you ensure successful project implementation.

What you bring

• Education: Completed degree (University/ETH, FH, HF)
• Field of study: e.g. civil engineering, mechanical engineering, process engineering, electrical engineering, or food technology; further training in project management is an advantage.
• Professional experience: Proven leadership of complex and construction-intensive large-scale projects with cost responsibility of over CHF 150 million in an industrial environment, ideally in the food industry.
• Cost, schedule, risk, quality, contract, and claim management are part of your daily project routine.
• You understand production processes and the associated supply chains and can assess technical as well as operational contexts holistically.
• You think entrepreneurially, keep an overview even in complex projects, and successfully bring together different specialist areas and interests.
• You convince with negotiation skills, assertiveness, and a confident handling of demanding situations and differing interests.
• You work independently, in a structured and solution-oriented manner, and gladly take on responsibility.
• German (B1)
• French (A2)
• English (A2)

What we offer you

• Central workplace: At Limmatstrasse 152, directly at Limmatplatz
• Modern infrastructure: Own hardware, modern office equipment, height-adjustable desks, curved monitors
• Flexible working hours: Flexitime, 41-hour week, 5 to 7 weeks of holiday per year.
• Flexible workplace / home office: Individual planning of temporal and local work deployment.
• Maternity/Paternity leave: 18 weeks paid maternity leave / 5 weeks paternity leave (3 weeks paid and 2 weeks unpaid).
• Social benefits: Accident: full net salary / daily sickness allowance: full net salary up to 730 days / pension fund contributions: employer pays 2/3
• Cumulus points: Additional number of Cumulus points on purchases made
• Catering: Staff restaurant Guggi at Limmatplatz. Excellent catering at favourable prices.
• Migros Bank: Private and investment account with preferential interest rates and fee-free account management
• Klubschule Migros: Coverage of course costs from 70% up to a maximum of CHF 1000 per year
• Sports and fitness offers: Contribution to fitness subscriptions: max. CHF 200 per subscription per year

Recruitment process

• Submit application documents
• Pre-selection of applications
• Personal video or telephone interview
• Technical interview with case presentation
• Final interview before contract issuance

Contact
Ms Maxine Knöpfel

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