Department Manager

**Offer ID**:

- 52397**Métier**:

- Project Managers / Electromechanical**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Schedule**:

- Full-Time**Country**:

- Belgium**Equans** is recruiting a **Department Manager** for the department Solar Technics in Belgium.

You will be driving the existing Solar team in Belgium with bootcamp location in Roeselare and you will have full P&L responsibility.

**Your mission?**
- you will be responsible for achieving the financial, quality, environmental and safety objectives
- planning, developing, organizing and coordinating all activities
- you have a strong personal commitment to HSEQ and motivate your employees towards a strong safety culture
- you ensure a positive social climate
- you encourage your teams in creativity, new ideas and innovation but also in new technologies in a rapidly changing environment
- you develop and maintain processes for continuous improvement
- you monitor the quality and quantity of the employees required to achieve the objectives and, in this sense, also keep an eye on the further development of employees
- you detect the training/recruitment needs and initiate these with HR
- you detect opportunities in the market, and develop & strengthen the department's position in the market
- you supervise the commercial activities, support the development of contacts with potential customers and align commercial activities with the strategy
- you have final responsibility for financial and economic reporting
- you are responsible for optimizing the profitability of your department
- you detect deviations from the budgeted costs, turnover & results, and initiate & follow up on corrective actions
- you decide on the tenders to be followed and set the course and conditions during major contract negotiations
- you are ultimately responsible for all execution activities, you decide on or validate the actions undertaken
- you report directly to the Division Manager

**What do you need?**
- you have a master in engineering, preferably in an electrical field: electromechanics, energy, electricity, etc. and at least 5 years of relevant experience in the field of Solar, project management and team management
- you have experience in the Solar market in the Benelux with international experience in the UK, Ireland,
- you ideally have good knowledge of the technical market with regard to Solar
- you have a good financial overview and make the necessary reports
- you are good at sales and negotiations
- you are an experienced people manager, able to motivate others
- you are a good communicator and able to work together in synergy with other group entities
- you are strong in optimizing and, where necessary, changing processes and getting your team on board with this
- you are a team player
- you are performance
- and result-oriented
- a good level in French-Dutch & English is required

**Department information**:

- 50 mio turnover/year
- 40 employees: mainly white collars and exempts
- contacts with national and international clients, companies, subcontractors and suppliers
- you will be responsible for projects in the area of Solar

**Want to tackle tomorrow’s multi-technical challenges with us?**

Then join our experts in the various **innovative** and **exciting projects** of Equans. You get the opportunity to use your **technical skills** as well as to discover **cutting-edge technologies** and help customers in the 3 major transitions of today: the energy transition, the industrial transition and the digital transition.

Joining Equans is more than that You also get:

- a **competitive salary** in line with your education and experience
- interesting **training and career opportunities**:

- group-, hospitalization-, disability **insurance**:

- eco & **meal vouchers**, representation allowance, 13th month, holiday pay
- **lease car (with fuel card)**:

- **smartphone **with subscription, laptop, internet fee
- **additional paid leave**, homeworking

**We are looking forward to meeting you