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