About this role
50% TEAM LEAD People and functional leadership of the PM team 50% PROJECT MANAGER Independent management of own customer projects Your Mission As an experienced Project Manager, you take the next step towards team leadership. You develop a team of approximately six Project Managers while continuing to lead your own customer projects. In doing so, you combine operational project proximity with growing leadership responsibility.
- Your Responsibilities as Team Lead Project Management Project control: Support the team with schedules, quality, risks, opportunities and claims, and follow up on required actions.
- Resource planning: Manage workload and project allocation and escalate capacity bottlenecks early.
- Financial control: Ensure consistent project forecasts and manage revenue, cost, cash flow and deviations at team level.
- Escalations & stakeholders: Act as the first point of contact for critical project, customer and contractual topics and as a sparring partner for the Project Managers.
- Health, Safety & Quality: Ensure compliance with applicable H&S and quality requirements.
- Leadership & development: Provide functional and disciplinary leadership with support from the Project Director, including feedback, coaching, onboarding and gradual ownership of people development.
- Improvement: Promote best practices, lessons learned and consistent PM standards.
- Your Responsibilities as Project Manager Lead own customer-funded B2B projects from order intake through to acceptance.
- Take responsibility for contract-compliant, on-time, high-quality and profitable project execution.
- Coordinate internal specialist departments as well as external partners and subcontractors.
- Manage revenue, EBIT, cash flow, schedules, quality, risks, opportunities and claims.
- Prepare and update project plans, forecasts, status reports and decision papers.
- Maintain clear, proactive and reliable customer communication, including in critical situations.
- Provide transparent information on confirmed facts, open points and next steps.
- Identify, assess and actively manage project, schedule, contractual and financial risks as well as claims and opportunities.
Your Profile
- At least eight years of relevant professional experience, including at least four years as a Project Manager in customer-funded B2B projects.
- Experience in complex turnkey projects with technical and commercial responsibility, including installation, commissioning and acceptance.
- Initial functional leadership experience, for example as Lead Project Manager, project team lead, mentor, coach or deputy.
- Good knowledge of project finances, forecasting, contract, risk and opportunity management.
- Understanding of electrical installation and integration projects; industry experience in airports, transportation, energy, industrial or automation environments is an advantage.
- Experience with VOB is an advantage; a project management certification, such as PMP, is an advantage.
- Leadership and development potential, decisiveness and a structured, customer-oriented and responsible way of working.
- Ability to inform customers appropriately for the audience and to build trust through transparent, committed communication.
- Willingness to combine operational project responsibility with growing team leadership responsibility.
- Fluent German and English skills; confident use of MS Office and MS Project; willingness to travel up to approximately 30%.
What We Offer
- A key role with own projects and a direct influence on the further development of the PM team.
- An international environment with technically demanding projects in the aviation industry.
- Targeted support in the development step from experienced Project Manager to people leader.
- Would you like to lead people and projects to success?
- We look forward to receiving your application