Your responsibilities
- Establishment of the new function Process Technology of Business Unit Business Unit Uhde within the thyssenkrupp Decarbon Technologies segment.
- Reporting directly to the COO of the Business Unit, ensuring alignment with global organizational goals and standards.
- Responsibility for the process related engineering for operational customer projects, including a strong Process Design Package, basic and detailed process engineering.
- Integration of new innovative developments from Technology & Innovation into operational process designs.
- Implement a seamless process which ensures well established interactions in the sales and execution phase of the projects.
- Ownership for development of Process Technology execution process and tools globally, building a strong global process technology community.
- Ensure process safety protocols are implemented, including innovative solutions to simulate risk and ensure safety is a regular milestone check during the development of the Process Design Packages and related documentation.
- Provide a standardized PDP that allows for efficient sales and execution while allowing customizations to be adopted in a professional and well-documented way.
- Continuously develop our employees to have an excellent technical, methodical, and leading competence in the right quantity.
- Identify areas for improvement and drive continuous optimization efforts, considering efficiency measures like standardization, lean, Six Sigma, digitalization and AI.
- Achieve goals for a cost competitive PDP and optimized lead time.
- Highly collaborative approach to operations, working together with functions like Sales, Engineering, Project Management, Procurement and Construction, Commissioning & Fabrication.
- Collaborating with Technology & Innovation to ensure a continuous development and innovation for our Uhde process technologies.
- Managing interfaces with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, third party companies, Sales, Engineering and Procurement divisions to ensure alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
Your profile
- At least 10 years of professional experience in Process Technology in chemical industry.
- Degree in an engineering discipline (mechanical engineering, process engineering, chemical engineering or similar), or in Chemistry, ideally supplemented by an economic degree (MBA).
- Extensive knowledge of some of our Process Technologies (e.g. Ammonia, Nitric Acid, Methanol-to-X, biomass gasification, ).
- Experience in working with corporate decision makers, contractors and internal & external stakeholders.
- Strategic mindset, able to develop a strong strategy for Process Technology and capable to develop a strategic workforce plan for a global team of 200 employees.
- Proven records of leading international teams respective intercultural awareness and ability to leverage cultural differences.
- Extensive knowledge and experience with MS Office Package.
- Drive and able to work under high pressure while still meeting highest level of results.
- A strong customer orientation as well as a keen sense of interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Exceptional organization and coordination skills.
Leadership capabilities
- Modern leadership style with a collaborative mindset, working on equal footing with other functions and seeing collective success as the focus of actions.
- Energetic attitude, characterized by a proactive approach and a focus on achieving results.
- Full ownership for the function.
- Proficient in developing and motivating the team to foster high-performance outcomes.
- Ability to develop valuable relations within a complex, multicultural organization.
Cultural fit and impact
- Flexible and open-minded, receptive to new ideas and perspectives.
- Positive personality and optimism and a high level of integrity.
- Intrinsically driven - delivering results and continuously striving for personal and professional development.
Your benefits
We work together closely and respect each other, for over 200 years now and up till today. If that is just as important to you as it is to us, please apply online now under specification of your salary requirement and your notice period.
It goes without saying, that we would like to offer attractive working conditions. This includes for example:
- Attractive old-age provision models
- Groupwide learning measures
- thyssenkrupp internal health campaigns
Contact
Sven Thier
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