About Ingredion:
Join Ingredion, where innovation impacts lives worldwide! Without even realizing it, you\’ve experienced our work in your favorite chocolate, your pet\’s food, the paper you write on, and your everyday snacks. As a global powerhouse across more than 60 industries, we harness the potential of natural ingredients to transform lives. Whether you\’re just starting your career or bringing years of experience, there\’s a place for you here to make a real difference. Be part of our team that values a wide range of perspectives and is committed to shaping a better world with every product we create.
Senior Project Engineer, Europe (m/f/d)
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Workplace Type: On-Site
This role is responsible for planning, coordination and management of our investment projects. In this role you will be required to travel across various Ingredion sites as part of the projects.
As Senior Project Engineer, you will be responsible for end-to-end project management in coordination with the needs of the business partners as well as ensuring efficient, time, resource-, and cost-effective execution. In this role, you will report directly to Senior Manager Engineering & Reliability, Europe and will work with project team members as your indirect reports.
What will you do:
- End-to-end project management – Develop (new) technical concepts and transfer into concrete projects along with risk management. Manage the project from concept design to planning, implementation, commissioning and handover to the future owner/user.
- Technical and commercial project management –
- Preparation of specifications and requests for quotations for key components and services
- Budget management: budget estimation, cost tracking, reporting
- Technical review of offers and order confirmations and its justification
- Manage documentation
- Ensure Compliance – Continuous project control with responsibility for adherence to scope, budget, schedule, health and safety as well as quality objectives
- Stakeholder Management – Manage internal & external stakeholders, including suppliers and contractors
- Cross-functional collaboration – Close collaboration with other departments such as Operations, Process Engineering, Maintenance, EHS, Quality…
- Continuous Improvement – Independent identification of optimization opportunities and implementation of improvement projects, e.g. in the areas of operational efficiency, quality, EHS
- Participation in plant on-call duty (Werksrufbereitschaft)
What you will bring:
- Master of Science or similar degree in Process Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or similar
- Experienced in Project management with 5 to 10 years of work experience
- Experience in Project Management, Process Engineering, ideally in a manufacturing and maintenance environment
- Exceptional communication skills, with fluency in Spoken & Written English and min. B2 in German
Who you are:
- Proficient in MS Office, MS Project, and SAP
- Team player with ability to build teams and manage personnel
- Autonomous, analytical, structured in your way of working (end-to-end)
- Strategic and proactive, with results oriented working approach
- Willing to grow personally within the global organization
We value diversity in our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, military status, or disability status.
Ingredion offers support to applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If an applicant requires accommodation during the application or selection process, we will work with the applicant to meet their needs.
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Kontaktperson:
Ingredion Incorporated HR Team