Industrial Engineering Project Manager

Industrial Engineering Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Full end-to-end ownership of industrial CAPEX projects, from concept and feasibility through commissioning and handover
• Steer external engineering partners by making their work transparent (scope, progress, quality, and cost of deliverables), challenging their designs, estimates, and schedules, and holding them to commitments
• Define and own project scope, deliverables, and battery limits
• Personally prepare and defend business cases and investment requests, including CAPEX estimates and contingency, through investment approval
• Manage project budget: commitments, forecast-to-complete, variance analysis, contingency, and change control
• Build and own integrated baseline planning in MS Project, including shutdown and tie-in windows
• Lead and coordinate all project phases: pre-study and concept selection, basic and detailed engineering, procurement and contractor selection, construction and site execution, commissioning, and handover to operations
• Resource planning: secure internal and external capacity across disciplines and anticipate bottlenecks
• Lead multidisciplinary teams (internal and external) across process, mechanical, piping, electrical, automation, civil, and EHS
• Contract and steer EPCM/EPC partners and contractors, including handling deviations, change orders, and claims
• Manage risks and deviations on scope, budget, and schedule, with timely escalation and proposed solutions
• Act as single point of accountability towards site management, operations, EHS, and senior stakeholders; report to steering committees
• Drive a strong safety culture during engineering and execution in an operating plant

Requirements

• At least 15 years of industrial experience, with at least 10 years as owner-side Project Manager with personal end-to-end accountability
• Personally prepared business cases and investment requests, and owned the resulting budget
• Proven direct steering of at least one EPCM or EPC contractor
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams, including resource planning
• Demonstrated experience in pre-feasibility and concept studies, CAPEX budgeting and investment approval, and commissioning and handover of industrial installations
• Engineering background (mechanical, electrical, piping, civil, etc.), ideally with 5+ years as project engineer as part of the 15 years above
• Strong hands-on experience with MS Project (planning ownership)
• Master's degree in engineering, or equivalent level through experience
• Not considered equivalent: experience solely as PM at an engineering firm or EPC contractor, as project engineer or project coordinator, as portfolio manager without delivery accountability, or on small or standard projects

Non-Technical Profile Requirements

• Acts autonomously with a full accountability mindset
• Strong leadership: challenges senior stakeholders and contractors with facts
• Excellent communicator at all organisational levels, from shopfloor to steering committee
• Natural authority in complex industrial environments
• Combines helicopter view with analytical depth to test a contractor's estimate or schedule
• Committed to long-term continuity within the projects
• Proven knowledge of MS Project

Methodology / Certification Requirements

• VCA-VOL (mandatory)
• PMP, Prince2 or IPMA is a plus

Language Proficiencies

• Dutch: Native / Fluent
• English: Fluent