Integral Project Manager

Your role

As an Integral Project Manager, you are responsible for highly innovative, complex, and challenging projects in a high-end regulated environment (e.g., Semi-con, Medical, Defense). You have integral responsibility, from customer request to development, implementation of volume production in the factory, and delivery to the customer. The technologies are state-of-the-art and the products are first of a kind. VDL Konings is a contract manufacturer that offers design, industrialization, and production competencies under one roof. You must build and maintain a close relationship with the customer. Projects have an international scope, so as a Project Manager, you will deal with different corporate cultures, different regional cultures, and different ways of working (Project Management and Development processes).

Tasks & responsibilities

You manage projects with a (large) multidisciplinary team of highly educated, primarily technical experts in the fields of design, supply chain, and production. Therefore, we expect you to have a solid technical background, with experience in product development projects, as well as professional project management skills. You are responsible for:

• The delivery of innovative mechatronic systems from initiation and concept & development to production and customer acceptance; taking the triple constraint into account;
• Project setup, organization, and governance;
• Leading the project team, in close cooperation with a system architect;
• Monitoring and controlling project progress (costs, risks, and quality), taking action, and escalating when necessary;
• Managing stakeholders: external customers and suppliers, as well as internal stakeholders at various management levels and functional domains (e.g., design, business, production);
• Applying the organization's project management and development processes;
• Contributing to the continuous development of the department's project management competence.

• Professional project management skills;
• A degree in Mechatronics, Mechanics, Electronics, Physics, or related;
• Preferably 3 to 7 years of experience as a project leader in high-end product development projects, leading multidisciplinary team(s);
• You have knowledge of Design for Excellence;
• You are a team builder and able to inspire, motivate, and persuade people;
• You are a proactive, analytical, creative person with a "take ownership" and "can do" mentality;
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written;
• Willingness to travel and stay abroad for a few weeks per year.

• profit sharing;
• 27 vacation days and 13 ADV days (for full-time employment);
• a good pension scheme
• plenty of personal development through training and education
• an annual VDL party with all colleagues from the VDL Group;
• internal career growth opportunities;
• various collective schemes;
• staff offers;
• participation in sports activities.