Project Manager - EfW Projects

Responsibilities

• Drive Execution Strategy: Flow down the Project Execution Strategy, PEPP, and Project Quality Plan effectively across your entire assigned scope.
• Baseline Schedule Creation: Partner actively with the project scheduler and TPMs to establish a robust time schedule baseline meeting all contractual dates.
• Secure Design Freezes: Support the Project Engineering Manager to achieve timely, robust design freezes and Quality Gate Reviews to prevent future changes.
• Manage Documentation Flow: Oversee document tracking to ensure critical construction, installation, and commissioning materials reach the site team on time.
• Control Quality Drivers: Steer your engineering team to prioritize hardware costs, constructability, and the absolute minimization of poor quality costs continuously.
• Please note: This is a non-exhaustive list of job responsibilities. The successful candidate may be required to perform other duties as reasonably requested to meet changing business and project needs.
• Engineering Degree with strong practical/industrial experience.
• Robust understanding of industrial process and product systems, ideally in Energy from Waste environment, backed by solid MS Office user skills and a strong results-oriented, resilient mindset under project pressure.
• Leadership & Team Building: Proven ability to drive, inspire, and coach a multidisciplinary engineering team while utilizing strong project management and moderation skills to foster a collaborative culture.
• Effective Communication & Mediation: Strong analysis and synthesis capabilities as an effective communicator who delivers simple, punchy messages to diverse audiences, alongside proven experience mediating internal and external conflict.
• Commercial & Legal Awareness: Practiced in managing contracts, navigating risk, and handling complex negotiation talks with external stakeholders, suppliers, and internal business groups confidently.
• Desirable Credentials & Languages: Fluency in English is mandatory, while an IPMA/PMI project certification, a business-related education, SAP system knowledge, or proficiency in German will provide a distinct advantage.
• Pension up to 10% employer contribution, life assurance 4x salary, disability insurance
• Private medical and dental insurance
• 24 days annual leave per annum
• Team-oriented working atmosphere in an international Green Tech Company
• For HR agencies: Please note that we do not accept applications coming from agencies. Thank you.

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Additional Information

Kanadevia Inova is seeking a dedicated Project Manager for Energy from Waste (EfW) Projects to join our Regional Service Centre. Reporting into the Project Director, you will lead one of the 2 large scopes within an EFW project; 1. Core Products: CB ( Combustion & Boiler), FGT (Flue Gas Treatment), WSC (Water-Steam Cycle) and STS (Steam Turbine Generator / System or 2. Plants: EIC (Electrical, Insutrumentation and Controls, BOP (Balance of Plant), BS (Buildings and Structures / Civil Works), Taking ownership for delivery on cost, schedule and quality. Leading a team of Technical Project Managers, controlling alignment of their interfaces and that each TPM delivers on costs, schedule and quality responsibilities, addressing gaps as required.

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