Senior Project Engineer (English & German Speaker)

TK Airport Solutions: Elevating airports around the globe. We are part of TK Elevator group : At TK Elevator we strive to make cities the best places to live, advancing an industry that moves more than 1 billion people every day. With customers in over 100 countries served by more than 50,000 employees, service is at the heart of our business. The company has more than 1,000 locations around the world that form an extensive network that ensures proximity to customers. During the last decades, TK Elevator has established itself as one of the world's leading lift companies.As a market and innovation leader, we drive sustainable and efficient mobility with our broad product portfolio. As a manufacturer of lifts, freight elevators, escalators, moving walks, platform lifts, stair lifts and boarding bridges, you will find us, for example, in the One World Trade Center building in New York, in the Shanghai Financial Centre, in the Berlin TV Tower and in almost every airport.

At TK AIRPORT SOLUTIONS, our goal is to improve every airport’s efficiency and every traveler’s experience.

This includes enhancing mobility for a growing number of passengers. That’s why we’re proud to be making airports smarter around the world. We:

• Seamlessly move 1.8 billion people through our passenger boarding bridges every year
• Installed more than 5,000 global gate solutions at over 370 airports worldwide
• Manufactured and installed over 5,000 passenger boarding bridges worldwide
• Delived and maintain 143 state-of-the-art passenger boarding bridges at Istanbul’s new mega-airport

THE ROLE PURPOSE

We are looking for a hybrid technical-management profile to be part of projects related to industrial automation for airport and port operations environments, with a strong focus on boarding bridge solutions and vessel/aircraft docking guidance systems, as well as other engineering projects within the airport and port ecosystem.

Our PM plans the projects and ensures their completion, meeting key milestones, deadlines, and conditions agreed with the client. This includes seeking ways to generate new commercial proposals and maintaining a good long-term relationship with the client while achieving the established economic results for each project.

MAIN TASKS OF THE ROLE

1.- Project planning. Do "do":

• Ensure that each department of the company performs its duties for the completion of the project under its responsibility.
• Be the voice of the client within the company and the voice of the company to the client.
• Ensure that the client receives what they want on time and within the expected costs.
• Coordinate project technicians: organizing the work of technicians assigned to projects, coordinating material resources (purchases, rentals, etc.) and human resources for the project.
• Establish the strategy to follow in each project in terms of timeline and cost.
• Detect potential risks in the project.
• Mobilize different departments in the right direction when unforeseen events arise.
• Attend visits and other client requirements.

2.- Control the projects

• Ensure that the final result matches the descriptions in the contractual documents (order, proposal, and approved plans).
• Control project revenues, costs, and timelines. Monitor the financial progress of ongoing projects.
• Communicate and supervise changes to the scope of supply.

3.- Identify areas for improvement

• Identify inefficient processes
• Highlight deficiencies in procedures
• Pursue improvements. Ensure "doing"

Minimum of 5 to 10 years of experience as a project manager in an international company dedicated to the manufacturing of capital goods or the management of large projects.

Strong communication Skills in order to coordinate and work as a team with other departments in order to achieve the project goals.

C1 english level or equivalent

**INTERMEDIATE - CONVERSATIONAL LEVEL OF GERMAN IS A MUST. THE POSITION REQUIRES TO INTEACT WITH STAKEHOLDERS IN THIS LANGUAGE. **

- Education / Qualifications:

University degree, either bachelor's or master's. Specialization in Industrial Engineering.

- Desirable: Training in PMP and/or project management.

- Knowledge of planning tools (Primavera, MSP).

• Hybrid working model
• Secure job and salary – permanent contract in a technically exciting, stable, and sustainable industry and an attractive compensation package
• Social benefits
• Teamwork & safety – an open, transparent, and value-oriented culture
• TKE is a company with an open, transparent culture that focuses on the people who make it up. At TKE you will receive frequent feedback, continuous training and space to contribute your ideas.