You will lead international EPC projects in chemical and industrial plant construction, with a mandate to translate strategic opportunities into successful project delivery. This includes overseeing FEED-to-EPC conversions, consortium-driven mega-projects, and ensuring flawless execution in line with contractual commitments and corporate goals.

Your role is pivotal in integrating strategy, governance, and execution, providing a unified leadership interface to clients, partners, and internal stakeholders.

• Full Accountability: Assume end-to-end responsibility for project performance scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk across all phases.
• Governance & Compliance: Chair Project Steering Committees, ensure adherence to corporate governance, and drive decision-making at executive level.
• Financial Stewardship: Own project P&L, ensuring profitability through proactive cost control, risk mitigation, and value engineering.

• Client Relationship Management: Act as the senior executive interface, building trust and shaping long-term partnerships through strategic engagement and negotiation.
• Commercial Strategy: Contribute to bid strategies and contract negotiations for mega-projects, ensuring alignment with risk/reward objectives.
• Consortium Leadership: Represent the company in joint ventures and consortium boards, ensuring clarity of roles and seamless collaboration.

• Team Empowerment: Lead large, diverse project organizations in a matrix environment, fostering a high-performance culture and One Team mindset.
• Talent Development: Mentor senior project managers and functional leads, building organizational capability for future growth.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive innovation in project delivery models, digitalization, and sustainability initiatives.

• Master’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Process, or related) or equivalent.
• Extensive leadership experience in EPC projects within chemical or industrial plant construction.
• Proven track record of delivering mega-scale projects (>500M) as Project Director or equivalent senior leadership role with an EPC contractor.
• Strong exposure to FEED-to-EPC conversion and complex contractual frameworks.
• Experience in execution of consortium and/or joint-venture projects is mandatory.
• Strategic thinker with a decisive, results-oriented approach and strong business acumen.
• Exceptional leadership and stakeholder management skills.
• Deep understanding of EPC commercial models and risk management.
• Proficiency in MS Office, SAP, and project control systems.
• PMI, IPMA, or equivalent preferred.
• High sense of responsibility, resilience, intercultural competence, and willingness to travel internationally.

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:

• Performance-related compensation
• Attractive old-age provision models
• Groupwide learning measures
• thyssenkrupp internal health campaigns

Sven Thier

Recruiting Expert