Project Manager

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Project Manager - Chemical Engineering
- Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.- As a **Project Manager - Engineering & Maintenance m/w/d** you will directly report to our PM Team Lead and you will join our Operations team in **Vernier**.- You will be in charge of the implementation of many-sided projects on site from justification and technical design to successful implementation and commissioning.**In this exciting role you will**:

- Manage requests for the study and implementation of projects at Vernier site in the following areas:

- ingredients production
- compound production
- logistics
- utilities production and distribution
- waste water treatment plant
- laboratory facilities
- build technology
- buildings and open spaces (roads, effluent networks, green spaces, etc.)
- Project management:

- Manage CAPEX projects
- Lead project team and external resources
- Monitor compliance with design and construction parameters, respecting all norms and EHS regulations
- Monitor project execution parameters, including timing, detailed cost estimate, list of deliverables and implement corrective actions whenever necessary
- Co-lead tender process with suppliers, contractors and IM&S
- Follow-up project Indicators and lead steering committees
- Support project team in the project execution
- Conduct hazard studies, risk assessments and process optimization
- Support Execution supervisor for contractor management
- Report project status and budgetary control for approved projects
- Produce all required design documents (including specifications)
- Accomplish project plans within approved budget and schedule
- Follow Givaudan project management process (PGP)
- Manage project reporting in PPM Tool (cost plan, milestones, status report )
- Participate in the training and seminars proposed
- Engineering:

- Profile GCC: Is responsible for all design aspects related to chemical engineering, fluid dynamics and mechanical processes.
- Profile EA: Is responsible for all design aspects related to electricity, instrumentation and automation processes.
- Profile Building: Is responsible for all design aspects related to buildings (industrial and administrative), civil engineering and landscaping.
- All profiles monitor technology and propose solutions, standardize processes, equipment, engineering concepts and create norms.

**Your success profile includes**:

- Project Management Certification IPMA (min C level), PMI or equivalent.
- Profile GCC: Bachelor’s degree in engineering HES (ETS) or EPF in chemical engineering, fluid dynamics and mechanics
- Profile EA: Bachelor’s degree in engineering HES (ETS) or EPF in electricity, instrumentation and Automation
- Profile Building: Bachelor’s degree HES (ETS) or EPF in engineering or architecture EIG or in a building trade
- 5 to 10 years of experience in factory engineering, including management of multiple process engineering projects involving resources from diverse disciplines.
- Experience working with diverse cultures and versatile specialists (internal and external).
- Experience working in complex/matrix organizations.
- Technical skills in:

- chemical production and mixing facilities
- utilities production and distribution facilities
- installations related to logistics
- build technical installations (HVAC, fire extinguishing and detection, standard and emergency lighting)
- civil engineering and building trades
- ATEX regulations
- Project management, using TPM, Indicators, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing.
- Knowledge of financial concepts (e.g. OPEX, CAPEX) and tools (e.g. SAP).
- Languages:

- French: fluent
- English: fluent
- German: good command a plus
- Plan and align: manage complex projects.
- Take responsibility and don't accept the status quo.
- Customer-focused with a sense of production urgency.
- Collaborate: autonomous and team spirited.
- Manage complexity.
- Challenge with a continuous improvement behavior, following the site’s CI culture.
- Work systematically with facts, to make the most rational decisions. Knowing how to take a step back, especially in an emergency context.
- Cultivate improvement and standardize: systematically seek solutions that can be duplicated