Project Leader

工作内容

Context and Mission

“Product Development & Project” setting where Atlas Copco recruits a Product Development Project Leader to strengthen the centrifugal team “Turbo Technology”. This team is responsible for developing and maintaining centrifugal products & technology (with focus on dynamic compression). Developments can go from scratch to making the machine. You operate in an international setting where engineering and production are not necessarily located on the same site.

Team

Your product development team (depending on the project your team varies between 10 and 30 colleagues) will consist of specialists from different disciplines such as aerodynamic engineers, mechanical engineers, designers, constructors, rotor dynamics specialists, test engineers, software engineers... Also members of other departments will strengthen your team, such as purchasing, process and production.

Responsibilities and Task Areas

As a Project Leader, you guide a cross-functional team from the engineering phase to the final series production, monitoring project scope, timing and budget. You manage all risks and issues in a structured manner.

• Your team oversees the entire process of research, design, testing of prototypes and entering series production.
• You are responsible for defining project specifications together with all stakeholders and for setting up the entire project approach and plan. You report regularly to management and maintain a good relationship with the customer.
• You look for innovations together with the R&D unit and external parties such as universities.
• You work according to the NPPI (New Product and Process Introduction) process to guarantee product and process quality.
• Travel ratio: You are willing to occasionally travel abroad for short periods: maximum 9 weeks per year. On average you travel 3 times a year for 2 to 3 weeks, mainly to the sites in China and India.
• As Project Leader of a product development project you are also responsible for the technical part of the project. This means:

Profile, Desired Knowledge & Experience

• You already live in Belgium.
• You have experience as a Project Leader or Project Manager in an R&D, Product Development or Technology Development environment in the manufacturing industry.
• You have a relevant engineering degree: (electro)mechanical engineering, aeronautical engineering, ...
• You are familiar with the principles of project management and you have organizational skills.
• You communicate fluently in English.
• You are interested in development, validation, testing, design and manufacturability of Turbo Technology, Turbomachinery.

Desired Personality

• You make (technical) decisions in difficult situations, take risks into account and take responsibility for the decisions taken, while maintaining project scope, timing & budget.
• You implement decisions according to agreements and plans, you are firm in the implementation.
• You enjoy working with international teams in an international, multidisciplinary environment. You can motivate and inspire people from different backgrounds and personalities.
• You recruit the right people for the right tasks in your project team; you clearly define everyone’s role.
• You are sufficiently critical, work accurately and take initiative. Decisions are based on facts and figures.
• The dynamic environment of product development gives you energy. You handle the pressure and coach your team.
• You are flexible and think out of the box. You challenge the status quo and look for opportunities.
• You are challenged by complex problems, but you like simple and elegant solutions.
• You express yourself clearly, concisely and effectively. You communicate fluently and uncomplicated.

Offer

• Home working: maximum 2 days a week. You will work at the site in Wilrijk (Antwerp in Belgium) at least 3 days a week.
• You make an indispensable contribution to the company objectives. You get a sense of involvement and meaningful work. You see how your work makes the difference within the bigger picture, within the whole.
• You will be warmly welcomed by a multidisciplinary team of colleagues in various positions: designers, product development engineers, calculation engineers and project leaders.
• You will receive extensive, intensive internal training. Atlas Copco is strongly committed to training, learning & development. Atlas Copco offers training on a regular basis to acquire new skills.
• Atlas Copco will challenge you (technically) and support you!
• You will have the opportunity to develop your personal and professional skills, maximize your potential and direct your own career development.
• Perspectives! There are both horizontal and vertical development opportunities; both hierarchy ladders and technology ladders.
• You report to the Team Leader Engineering, a real People Manager with years of experience in the sector, more than 10 years of experience at Atlas Copco who succeeds in raising people to a higher level, allowing them to grow professionally and to rise above themselves .
• You will experience the multifunctionality and flexibility of an SME with a multinational as its backbone. You are part of the broad Atlas Copco community.
• Career in a leading company. Atlas Copco offers a challenging position with a lot of autonomy within an international context with a strong brand recognition that takes care of the health and well-being of employees where involvement, openness, high ethics and empowerment are core values. Atlas Copco attaches great importance to a stimulating working atmosphere.
• You choose a very varied and multidisciplinary position in which you come into contact with various forms of technology, various technical applications within various sectors & industries.
• You get the chance to make your mark, to work out your ideas effectively, including the opportunity to change things and take ownership. Your added value will be noticed because you are a very important link in the organization where you have a view of the entire value chain. You will mean added value, being able to exert an impact on the end result/final product.
• You can count on a dynamic no-nonsense open culture where transparent communication, initiatives and ideas are really valued. Everyone is very approachable. Atlas Copco has a feedback culture with short communication lines.
• You will have the opportunity to help build a growth company with a long-term strategy, to further develop yourself in a reference company that gives responsibilities to its employees. Own input is encouraged and you get credit for relevant new ideas.
• In this multidisciplinary position you have both internal and external contacts and you see the result of your work and the effect on the end result.
• You can of course count on excellent employment conditions: a complete remuneration package: a performance-motivating salary policy with an extensive package of fringe benefits. Atlas Copco has a cafeteria plan where you can opt for a company car, among other things.
• Flexible working hours: you choose when you start between 6.30 am and 10 am. Your working day will end between 2.45 pm and 6.15 pm. General flexibility: there is also a lot of flexibility outside these flexible hours. If overtime is worked, these hours can be compensated. Employees can find the work-life balance that works for them.
• Vision aimed at connecting people and dialogue.
• Performance-motivating and human policy with special attention to values ​​& norms.
• Atlas Copco attaches great importance to a stimulating working atmosphere and collegiality.
• Very big technical challenge and diversity of technological applications! Atlas Copco is strongly committed to customization and in-house management.
• Focus on manufacturability and cost efficiency. Large concentration of divisions are located close to the production environment on site in Wilrijk: test infrastructure, prototype view, lab, internal customers ...
• Atlas Copco attaches great importance to sustainability and pursues an active sustainable policy.
• Video Digitalisation, Transformation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K5cXAuKI-Q

About Atlas Copco

The Atlas Copco Group is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden and is active in more than 180 countries. The international headquarters of the compressor branch within the group is located in Wilrijk (Antwerp): Atlas Copco Airpower. They are the market leader in compressed air technology and develop and manufacture a wide range of industrial compressors and related products. Driven by innovation, they strive to provide their customers around the world with the best compressed air systems and solutions to respond to their complex technical problems. In addition to engineering and production, logistics, purchasing, finance and aftermarket are equally important. As an employee you will find yourself in an international working environment with a diversity of contacts and many career opportunities.

Passionate people create exceptional things

At Atlas Copco, they believe in challenging the status quo, always looking for a better way. Their leading technology enables them to innovate for a sustainable future. They believe that people make it possible and with them you are able to act. Your ideas can really make a difference and contribute to the quality of life of people around the world. They offer a wide range of interesting career opportunities.

More information / Introductory meeting

The application procedure is conducted exclusively via Talent Link NV

Single point of contact (SPOC): Wouter Hansen

Contact details

M: +32(0)471448120

E: wouter.hansen@talentlink.be