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Requirements
What we're looking for
- HBO (Higher Professional Education) working and thinking level
- Experience with leadership in a technical environment
- Knowledge of project execution and operational processes
- Strong in planning, organizing, and prioritizing
- You maintain an overview, even under pressure
- Analytical, decisive, and result-oriented
- Good command of the Dutch and English languages
- You are a true people manager: accessible, clear, and motivating
Nice to have
- Affinity with elevator and/or escalator technology is a strong plus
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
- A challenging position at a TOP Employer with many growth opportunities;
- Excellent employment conditions including a 13th month;
- Generous leave: 27 vacation days and 13 ADV days;
- An optimal work-life balance;
- Your development is important to us; we offer training and education to shape your development;
- Freedom in your role where your input is valued;
- Pleasant colleagues who are always there for you, a culture in which diversity and inclusivity are important.
- 13th month
- 27 vacation days + 13 ADV days
- Company car that can also be used privately
- Bonus scheme
- Working at an international company and Top Employer
- Plenty of room for growth and development
- An experienced team where you truly have an impact
- Strong employment conditions according to CAO Metalektro
- Good work-life balance
The role
We Elevate... Quality of urban life
Our elevators, escalators, and moving walks safely transport over two billion people daily to buildings and other transport hubs. Are you ready for the next step in your career? Are you innovative and do you aspire to an independent role in a technical environment where you can develop yourself? We are looking for a new colleague to strengthen our team. Are you the one who will help us shape the future and continue building on our success that began in 1874? Then read on quickly!
What you'll do
- Managing new installation and modernization projects within the standard segment
- Ensuring tight planning and resource allocation
- Monitoring progress, quality, and customer satisfaction
- Supervising compliance with safety guidelines
- Identifying bottlenecks and making timely adjustments
- Monitoring project budgets and financial progress
- Analyzing results and identifying deviations
- Initiating corrective measures
- Preparing forecasts and reports with Controlling
- Ensuring balance between quality, cost, and customer value
- Aligning schedules with Supervisors and Planners
- Coordinating the deployment of ±40 technicians
- Anticipating delays and capacity issues
- Optimizing the deployment of personnel and materials
- Prioritizing projects based on customer agreements and targets
- Aligning the deployment of subcontractors
- Translating departmental objectives into concrete actions
- Setting up and optimizing processes and working methods
- Monitoring progress (quantitative) and quality (qualitative)
- Managing and developing employees
- Responsible for HR activities such as onboarding, development, and appraisal
- Stimulating collaboration within and outside the department
- Identifying opportunities for improvement in processes and services
- Translating bottlenecks into improvement projects
- Leading improvement trajectories (e.g., Lean and process optimization)
- Actively stimulating improvement initiatives from the team
How you'll work
Location: Den Haag, Netherlands, Netherlands
Application ID: 89473
What do you get from us?
- Salary between WHICH SCALE?
About Schindler
- Industry
- Elevators
- Founded
- 1874
- Employees
- 50,000–100,000
- Headquarters
- Ebikon, Switzerland
- Website
- schindler.com
In their own words
About the company & team
Installation Manager
Are you an experienced leader with a technical background and a sharp eye for both operations and people?
Do you want to make an impact on large-scale projects while simultaneously building strong teams?
Then this is your role.
As Installation Manager you are responsible for the execution of new installation and modernization projects within the mainstream segment. This means: standardized elevator solutions (e.g., 4-5 stops) where efficiency, planning, and quality are central.
You directly manage approximately 8 employees, and indirectly about 40 technicians via Supervisors. You interface daily with internal stakeholders such as Planners and Supervisors, and externally with contractors, suppliers, clients, and homeowners' associations (VvE's).
You report directly to the NI/MOD FF Director.
Additional information
Is this vacancy tailor-made for you? Do you want to work for a TOP Employer? Join #TeamSchindler!
Then quickly contact Twan Daniels at twan.daniels@schindler.com, telephone number (+31) 703843660. Recruitment agencies responding to this vacancy are not appreciated.
At Schindler Group, we attach great value to inclusivity and diversity and guarantee 'equal opportunities for everyone.' We work hard to ensure that we treat every candidate for a position the same and do not look at age, origin, ethnicity, color, religion, membership of a trade union, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, nationality, genetics, health, or disabilities.
Recruitment in response to this vacancy is not appreciated. No rights can be derived from the unsolicited proposal of candidates without a prior assignment.
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