Project Manager

Main Purpose of the job:

Plan and lead CAPEX projects and coordinate the contributions of all stakeholders (from project initiation to closure) to deliver projects on-time, on-scope, and on-budget, continuously looking at ways to optimize.

Key responsibilities and outputs:

1. Lead Capital Projects – Manage the planning, budgeting, and execution of CAPEX projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and safety standards.

2. Drive Safety & Compliance – Enforce engineering safety standards and ensure compliance with local regulations, environmental policies, and internal procedures.

3. Oversee Technical Documentation – Maintain accurate and up-to-date engineering documentation, including P&IDs, SOPs, and maintenance records.

4. Vendor & Contractor Management – Coordinate with external suppliers and contractors for equipment, services, and project execution.

He/she supports the internal clients of the project.

He/she partners with Project Owner and leads project team members in their project tasks to assure the project expected delivery in full.

From INITIATION until CLOSING phases, he/she manages daily project activities scrupulously aligned with Project Management methodology and applies engineering standards when applicable and existing.

He/she ensures fact based, impartial and ethical decisions.

He/she permanently anticipates risk of deviations of the project and develops mitigation scenarios.

He/she monitors, reports, and escalates projects progress with transparency and accuracy.

He/she continuously looking for value for money, optimal schedule, scope match and highest HSE conditions for end-users and project contractors.

He/she is an active member and promoter of his/her projects and of the engineering community. He/she may manage several projects simultaneously.

He/she may be involved in project peer review and/or value engineering of other projects.

Performance measures: Adherence to CAPEX forecast month on month (MoM)

Deviation Estimate at Completion (EAC) from project approval to Closure

Adherence to agreed schedule and scope - Value for money delivery

Key Partners: Other PMs and Subject Matter Experts of the Engineering community

Project Engineers, Maintenance, Production, HSE team of the factory Procurement, Finance of the global/regional organization

Suppliers, Engineering firms

Education/experiences: § BS degree in technical field or Mechanical /Chemical Engineering Graduate

§ 10+ years experiences in both industrial project management (CAPEX>2mio€) and Operations, Industry experience from Food & Beverages, Hygiene Personal Care, Chemical production will be preferred.

§ Exposure to international project environment is required

IT: Advanced: MS-Office

Intermediate: Plan View / AutoCAD

Languages: French & English (B2 – Intermediate level minimum)

Functional competences and Behaviors PROJECT MANAGEMENT:

§ Master Problem solving, Budget control, Planning, management of change and risk analysis,

§ technical specifications, contracting, detailed and executive reporting

TECHNICAL:

§ Good at all engineering disciplines and technology, can challenge/question experts