Senior Project Manager NPI

The Job: 

As Senior Project Manager NPI you are responsible for highly innovative complex challenging projects in a high-end precision environment (Semi-con, Solar, Medical, Analytical). You have a responsibility, from customer request to development to implementation of volume production in the factory and delivery at customer site. The technologies are complex and the products are first of a kind. VDL ETG is a contract manufacturer and VDL ETG works on customer order only. 

Tasks & responsibilities 

You manage projects with a multidisciplinary team of highly skilled, mainly technical experts. That’s why we expect you to have a solid technical background, with experience in product development projects, as well as professional project management skills. 

Responsibilities: 

• Cooperate and understand customer needs and organize proper resource to build up the project scope. 
• Managing stakeholders: external customers and suppliers as well as internal stakeholders at various managerial levels and functional domain. 
• Ensure resource availability and allocation. 
• Develop a detailed project plan to track progress. 
• Manage the changes in project scope, schedule and costs. 
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques, and review/ report/ escalate to management or project steering as needed. 
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks.  
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation. 

Your profile 

• A degree in Mechatronics, Mechanics, Electronics, Physics or related; 
• Professional project management skills, preferably certified (PMP, PRINCE2); 
• At least 5 to 10 years experience as a project leader in new product development project management; 
• Knowledge of the Dutch language is a must; 
• The ability to challenge the internal organization on technology improvements, increasing efficiency equipment, quality improvement and (structural) cost price reduction. You are an innovative thinker 
• Affinity with Manufacturing Technology (machining, sheet metal, assembly, testing & qualification) has our strong preference 
• Strong leadership competences, people manager – capable to influence people. You are a pro-active, analytical, creative person with a “can do” mentality; 
• Capable of raising the competence level of both individuals as teams. 

What do we offer 

• You are part of the international, industrial, family-owned company VDL Groep; 
• You work with professionals in a technical and high end environment with a dynamic and informal atmosphere; 
• a competitive salary 

Want to apply for this position?

Are you interested and do you fit the above profile? Then apply via the application button. We welcome your CV and a brief motivation as to why you are interested in this particular position. For more information about this job vacancy, please contact Corporate Recruitment; Geena Houbraken, at +31(0)40-2925066.

Responses from (recruitment) agencies for this job vacancy are not welcome. We ask candidates to apply directly to VDL ETG Eindhoven and do not wish to fill this job vacancy through a temporary employment agency, secondment agency or recruitment & selection agency.

The company VDL ETG Eindhoven:

VDL ETG develops and produces complex innovative high-tech modules and systems, of which other say it is impossible. We provide technical challenges to contribute to computer chip development, fighting diseases and understanding cellular and molecular details. #LI-GH1