Team Lead Project Execution Mv Drives

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ABB System Drives is a global supplier of high-power, high-performance drives, drive systems and packages for industrial processes and large infrastructure applications. With our industry leading technology and global support, we help our customers, partners and equipment manufacturers with asset reliability, performance improvement and energy efficiency in mission critical applications. Our people and culture are the foundation of our success. We all together make the difference for our customers every day.

This position reports to

Head of Tendering and Order Execution

Your responsibilities

• Ensures that the area of responsibility is structured to fit the business model, sufficiently staffed with skilled resources, and directed appropriately
• Develop functional and communication skills and provide direction for future requirements to achieve a superior customer experience while respecting ABB core values, HSE, functional safety, cybersecurity, integrity, diversity and inclusion (D&I) and compliant with SOX/accounting regulations
• Leads, directs, coaches, and supervises the local Project Execution team consisting of approx 5 project managers, 4 engineers and some interns in a dynamic business environment in collaboration with other MV Drives teams abroad (eg US, CH, FI, CN and IN)
• Ensures that ABB principles, instructions and guidelines are consistently followed. Depending on your background, you will lead your own projects (Eng or ProjMgr)
• Participation in bid and sales process, factory loading in order to support “S&OP” (sales and operations planning) process for the whole backend organization, proactively provides feedback on cost overruns/savings on completed projects and ensure proper communication flow between relevant internal and external stakeholder
• Act as de-escalation authority for your team internal and, above all, customer-related topics. Ensure proper contract, risk and claim management in accordance with ABB guidelines/policies, ensures that lessons learned from Project Execution are relentless analyzed with Lean Six Sigma (L6S) methods and conclusions are incorporated in continuous improvement (CI) actions
• Responsible for the team's project portfolio – ensure state of the art documentation, monitoring key performance indicators compared to the project budget, e.g. OTD, hours spent, costs, invoicing, cash flow, defaults) to ensure that the profit margin on projects is not undermined
• Open for new duties and additional management tasks that arise over time

Your background

• Higher education in engineering, economics or business administration (Master's degree will be an asset)
• Several years relevant work experience in international Project Execution with external customers, experience in negotiating and claim management and technical knowledge in the field of power electronics/mechanics
• Customer focused leadership, excellent communication & coaching skills with down to earth, cultural awareness, empathy and reliability for your own team as well as surrounding stakeholders
• Inspiring leader with a mindset to establish a “Yes-we-can and do” culture
• Fluency in English, Polish will be an asset
• Ability to identify improvement potential in processes/organizations, taking improvement actions.
• A certification from a major project management /engineering institute e.g. PMP, IPMA, ABB etc. will be an asset
• Advanced knowledge of Office 365 apps and its integration into daily tasks; knowledge of transport management, tax and export compliance, SAP or other ERP systems will be an asset

More about us

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