Engineering and R&D Manager - Green Hydrogen Mobility

ENGINEERING & R&D DEPARTMENT MANAGER

Driven since 1817 by the entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation of its founder, the John Cockerill Group develops large-scale technological solutions to meet the needs of its time: facilitating access to fossil free energies, enabling sustainable industrial production, preserving natural resources, contributing to greener mobility, enhancing security and installing essential infrastructures.

Its offer to businesses, governments and communities consists of services and associated equipment for the sectors of energy, defence, industry, the environment, transports, and infrastructures. With over 6,500 employees, John Cockerill achieved a turnover of € 1,046 billion in 2022 in 24 countries, on 5 continents.

Context of need

John Cockerill Hydrogen is the world leader in production and distribution solutions. As one of key strategic goals of the company, Hydrogen mobility is addressing all the infrastructure required to feed any means of transportation such as cars, buses, boats, forklifts, trains,…

With a sharp growth of this sector of activity (over 60% of growth in road transportation in the last 2 years), John Cockerill Hydrogen is continuously reinforcing their teams.

In this context, John Cockerill Hydrogen is recruiting their Engineering and R&D Manager (M / F) to drive and manage the dedicated Mobility technical team.

Main duties

• Manage the Technical department (about 15 people) which includes engineering, R&D and site services

• Support and develop the technical expertise of the Mobility technical team on Hydrogen Refuelling Station (compressor, storage, cooling system, dispenser, etc)

• Ensure the good execution of the hydrogen mobility projects both with a constant focus on cost, scope and schedule. Responsibility of managing the Technical Project Managers working on Mobility projects

• Coordinate activities in close relationship with John Cockerill Hydrogen other departments : project execution, engineering, quality, purchasing, etc

• Support the definition of site services including budget and performances

• Along with the VP Mobility Solutions and strategy experts, develop future technical solutions through a dedicated R&D program.

• Ensure that the Mobility technical team remains at the forefront of hydrogen distribution development (refuelling protocols, norms and standards, competitor analysis, etc)

• Assist the Mobility proposal team to define and validate solutions and budgets

• Lead and provide support to other John Cockerill Hydrogen projects involving compression and storage

Profile

• Strong technical background in mechanical, electrical and fluids (PID,…)

• Ability to bring projects to completion on time and within budget
• Team player, ability to work with other departments
• Languages : English, French ; other languages are a plus

Your career

John Cockerill offers you more than just a job. It also gives you the opportunity to work on helping move towards a CO2 free economy in line with the Paris accords. As part of a dynamic team, you will exercise your talents on concrete projects and contribute to our success.

We offer you a career in a dynamic and ambitious group, with a strong positive culture of leadership, team spirit and mentoring.

Join us and apply via our website https://johncockerill.com/en/jobs/