Vanderlande is the global market leader in Airport & Parcel Solutions, and sorting systems for Warehouse Solutions. Working within the Project Delivery team for Airport & Parcel Solutions, the Project Manager will execute the delivery of complex automation system projects into dynamic, evolving and challenging airport and parcel environments in the APAC region.
Position : Project Manager
The Project Manager will be flexible, self-reliant, driven, and will provide ownership in managing and leading activities in the delivery of each project from customer order through to final acceptance. These activities could be (but not limited to); planning, procurement, commercial, contractual, financial, documentation, stakeholder management and risk & issue management. This is an ideal role for those looking to develop into more senior project management roles.
Job Description
- Solve abstract problems and takes over concern by being proactive (initiative): definition of the problem is the first step.
- Manages the process: attention focused on the acceptance of the solution by the stakeholders, not just the contents.
- Looks further than own field and integrates. Is mature sparring partner of management.
- Innovation concerns groups, not individuals/cases.
- Manages medium to large projects (indication project size: up to 20M). In addition to proven technology, limited new technology must also be implemented.
- Scope is more like extension of running operation instead of innovation of operation of organizational processes. Improvement instead of innovation.
- Manages contracts with high risk, with minor effect on org. strategy.
- Profound understanding of contracts and able to effectively mitigate related risks.
- Understands claim avoidance and when necessary, claim handling.
- Comes up with challenging but do-able project plan and leads the realization.
Job Requirements:
- Successfully completes large / complex projects.
- Self-reliant in drawing up challenging project plan, in getting the plan accepted and in realizing it.
- Manages quality, time, costs (profit), provision of information and expectations.
- Strong negotiator (additional work) for customer and suppliers.
- Settles contract issues professionally.
- Manages stakeholders at management level.
- Ability to mobilize internal organization.
- Tough negotiator with customer and subcontractors. Manages contract issues in a professional way.
- Spots leads for business and capitalize on these opportunities.
- Multi-disciplined.
- Ability to work within an international work environment and different cultures. This includes travelling, flexibility.
Qualifications
- Bachelor degree Mechanical or Electrical engineering
- 7+ Yrs Project Management experience. Preferably in Airports and Parcel.
- Delivering projects in the South East Asian region would be an advantage
- Fluent written and spoken English