Buhler Group in Plymouth, MN is looking to hire a full-time Consumer Foods Project Manager to manage and lead projects for our agriculture and food processing customers. Are you a natural-born leader? Do you want an opportunity to advance your career in mechanical engineering? Would you like to join an innovative sustainable technology company dedicated to changing the world for billions of people? If so, please read on!

This project management position with our sustainable technology company earns a competitive wage. We provide excellent benefits, including health, dental, vision, a health savings account (HSA), short- and long-term disability, a 401(k) with a 6% company contribution, 15 days of vacation time, sick time, parental leave, and exciting development and training opportunities. If this sounds like the right agriculture and food processing project management opportunity to use your mechanical engineering skills, apply today to join our sustainable technology company!

ABOUT BUHLER GROUP

Buhler Group is a family-owned Swiss company that creates sustainable innovations for a better world. Our aim is to transform the world's most pressing food and mobility challenges into sustainable technologies, process solutions, and business models. Two billion people each day enjoy foods produced on Bühler equipment, and one billion people travel in vehicles manufactured with parts produced with our machinery. Having this global relevance, we are in a unique position to turn today's global challenges into sustainable and good business.

At Buhler, our employees are empowered to show initiative and take responsibility. In our family-oriented company, personal success goes hand in hand with shared success, which is why we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace where integrity and courage are key drivers of our success. When you join our team, you get access to personal development opportunities and exceptional benefits to encourage you to make a difference in the lives of our customers.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A CONSUMER FOODS PROJECT MANAGER

As a Consumer Foods Project Manager in sustainable technology, you play an essential role in leading a project team of internal partners, contractors, and subcontractors for mostly type B and C projects. You ensure that deliverables are consistently on time, within budget, and in line with customer expectations. Prior to beginning a new project, you make sure the project schedule baseline is approved. You also provide an execution strategy and conduct final negotiations.

In addition, you ensure project deviation is properly managed as well as assess, approve, and expedite the technical aspects of change orders. You also define effective claim strategies for customers, partners, subcontractors, and others. Using your exceptional organizational skills, you prepare and perform project reviews and facilitate brief meetings, ensuring all site-related documents are delivered to the correct site personnel.

You develop and maintain strong working relationships with customers, contractors, and subcontractors to ensure all project operations run smoothly. Keeping our processes in good shape, you establish prevention and detection internal controls, which address potential risks of inefficiency, ineffectiveness, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement with reasonable assurance. You also implement and maintain operating standards to guarantee quality project results and customer satisfaction.

As needed, you provide guidance and support to your project team members, as well as participate in continual learning activities and integrate newly acquired practical applications into your work. You're a strong leader who cares about your team, and it brings you great fulfillment to use your mechanical engineering and project management expertise to help our clients in food processing and agriculture!

QUALIFICATIONS FOR A CONSUMER FOODS PROJECT MANAGER

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• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in electrical, automation, or mechanical engineering or a related field
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• 3+ years of experience in a lead project engineering role OR an equivalent combination of education and experience
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• Experience in or knowledge of the milling industry, food processing, bulk material handling, or agriculture
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• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, and SAP
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• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time
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• Strong leadership skills
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Knowledge of 3D Mechanical, Architect, and Gantt is preferred. A PMI certification would be a plus but multiple factors will be taken into consideration.

Do you have excellent verbal and written communication skills? Can you set clear goals and function effectively under tight deadlines, heavy workloads, and other pressures? Are you able to gather and analyze information to identify goals and brainstorm strong resolutions? Can you work collaboratively with a group of employees to achieve a common goal? Are you good at conducting follow-ups to ensure agreements and commitments have been fulfilled? If yes, you might just be perfect for this food processing and agriculture project management position with our sustainable technology company!

WORK SCHEDULE FOR A CONSUMER FOODS PROJECT MANAGER

This full-time mechanical engineering project management position typically works the day shift with some domestic and international travel required.

ARE YOU READY TO JOIN OUR PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM?

If you feel that you have the right mechanical engineering skills for this job helping our food processing and agriculture clients at our sustainable technology company, please fill out our initial 3-minute, mobile-friendly application. We look forward to meeting you!

Location: 55441