Project Manager

Gutor is committed to providing its customers with the best possible support. The company has a team of experienced engineers and technicians who are available to help with any problems that may arise.

To strengthen our team, we are looking for a Customer Project Manager (f/m/d) Nuclear Business area for our UPS production site in Wettingen (Canton Aargau).

In this role you will manage exciting projects in the field of nuclear power, lead the respective project teams, monitor, and control financial progress and budget and finally be the main point of contact towards our customers.

You will accompany the projects from order to commissioning, support in technical questions and actively contribute to develop our Solution Center Project Management Team at Gutor.

As a Customer Project Manager you will be **responsible for managing complex projects in the Nuclear Business area**:

- from planning and implementation to customer approval.

In this position, you will take over the management of various projects (including both large projects in individual companies as well as multi-country companies) and continuously monitor the progress of the project.

The responsibility for the compliance with the cost budget, the schedule as well as the management of supply, costs, resources, quality and risks is part of your daily tasks, since you will guarantee the profitability of the project and the satisfaction of your customers.

In addition, you will act as a mentor within the Solution Center Project Management team, making an important contribution to the project manager community.

**ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- **Customer Management**:

- Main Point of contact**for Project and Technical Communication (except Customer TechnicalLeader/Manager is part of the Project Team) **with the customer.**
- Involves the customer in decision-making processes and provides regular information on

project progress (progress reports).
- Responsible for **customer inspections (PIM/FAT/Packing Inspection)***:

- Identifies and creates additional business opportunities**out of the ongoing project
- **Project Execution (Planning, Steering & Controlling)**:

- **Ensures that Sales initiates the hand over to execution**. Participation at Customer Kick Off

Meeting and initiates internal project Kick Off Meeting.
- **Handles the planning elements and milestones**according GUTOR Customer Project
- Process (ETO CPP) in coordination with the Project Planning, Operation, Engineering

(Customer Service teams).
- Identifies and minimizes non-conformance costs
- **Leads and organizes status meetings**for a regular project status review with the project team

if required. Close cooperation with the assigned Application Design Engineer.
- **Monitors document submission status**in cooperation with documentation teams.
- Ongoing monitoring of project status, early identification of discrepancies and initiating

targeted measures/action
- Performs project close review (commercial, lessons learnt, best practice)
- Ensures a **proper handover of the project to the Customer Service department.**
- **Finance Management**:

- **Leads**the project within the defined budget.
- Has **cost and margin responsibility**for the project as defined at project start.
- Initiates invoicing according to project progress and follows up payment status.
- Reviews initial project calculation, highlight and clarify discrepancies.
- Participate at monthly project control reviews.
- Optimizes project profitability.
- Review final project performance.
- **Risk-, Opportunity
- and Claim Management**:

- Throughout project life cycle, identifies, assesses and monitor all risk factors and opportunities.
- Assesses the contract in terms of claim-relevant significance.
- Work closely with Legal department for legal advise.
- Devise suitable strategies for risk mitigation (elimination, reduction).
- Inform customer, management and project team about scope deviations.
- Identifies and mitigates external claims (defines costs and argumentation, prepares claim and

negotiates change order) in close collaboration with purchasing and Sales/Tendering.
- Identifies opportunities for additional business (defines costing, prepares offers and negotiates

change order) in close collaboration with purchasing and Sales/Tendering).
- **3rd party supplier (sub supplier) Management**:

- Involves purchasing at an early stage of the project.
- Involves qualified subcontractors/partners in a timely manner.
- Leads commercial clarifications with support of purchasing and procurement.
- Rigorously monitors the performance of the subcontractors/partners, conducts timely

escalation (in the event of qualitative shortfalls and problems in cooperation) and, where
there are any discrepancies, initiates timely suitable action.
- **Leadership & Communication**:

- Participates at internal project reviews and management information meetings concerning the

project status.
- Ensures targeted and ful