Project Director

**Context of the opportunity**:
With industry always keen to take advantage of the latest technological developments without negatively affecting life on Earth, John Cockerill endeavours to improve the performance of production facilities and infrastructures whilst also making them more resource-efficient and environmentally friendly. The John Cockerill Industry offerings comprises the following:

- Equipment and services for the treatment of steels and non-ferrous metals relating to reheating furnaces, pickling, acid regeneration, cold rolling, strip processing and automation;
- Thermal treatment furnaces for the moulding and forging industries;
- Electrolytic and chemical surface treatment for various types of industry.

Our considerable experience in the fields of engineering, international project management and sourcing enable us to provide innovative and global solutions tailored to your needs for comprehensive industrial complexes, specific equipment and technical solutions. We operate all over the world and can oversee your equipment right throughout its lifespan, from its design and setup right through to its transformation and upgrading, all the while striving to minimize downtime.
John Cockerill Industry offers a whole host of tailored after-sales services and spare parts, not to mention helping you to improve the performance of your facilities by providing various training courses, expert services and remote support.
John Cockerill Industry has branches in North America, Germany, Belgium, China, Finland, France, India and Russia and benefits from the global geographic footprint of the John Cockerill Group.

In view of a large project intake and two record-breaking years for our business with industrial clients, we are looking to strengthen our teams with the recruitment of a new **Project Director** (M/F/X).

**Nature & scope**:
Leads, coordinates projects and programs of the highest level of complexity in terms of operational and technological risks, delivery time, number of involved entities/partners, customers profile and sales price. Directly reports to the Sector or Business Line level Management.

**Main responsibilities**:

- The customer relationship with appropriate communication, behavior, reliability, and business intelligence
- The execution and the reporting of a Program/Project from the effectiveness of the contract till its completion/close-out (including collection of payments and handling of claims) seeking the best combination between:

- The optimization of the financial results (globally and annualy) and techniques specified in the contract
- The customer's satisfaction (in terms of quality and delivery time) oThe identification of opportunities along the project oThe stakeholders’ management (internal and/or external, such as, but not limited to, interactions between dedicated Project team and other company teams, partners, or external authorities)
- The identification and implementation of long-term specific strategies/tactics to mitigate risks and to seize opportunities
- The project’s budget control and forecast of costs, percentage of completion and cash The control and management of the financing approach (currencies edging, external sources of capital,...), the set of securities (documentary credit, bank guaranties,...), the taxes (VAT, intracos, withholdings, duties...) and insurances (export credit insurance, all risks transports,...) in coordination with Group Experts
- The management of his/her whole project team (governance rules, organization, performance and development objectives and assessment...) and coordination of multidisciplinary teams (not direct report) possibly on different sites, countries, organizations. In addition, he or she defines and follows the workload to meet the execution needs
- The coordination of the Projects activities (from main milestones to individual tasks) through schedule management (schedule baseline, critical path and buffers)
- The appropriate reporting and communication to the project stakeholders in line with Group governance

**Profile**:

- Min of 10 years’ professional experience in Project Management roles in an international and industrial context (having successfully closed several transactions)
- Experience on large industrial equipment installation and or EPC projects of minimum 10M€
- Proven experience in Project Methodology
- Team management experience
- Excellent interpersonal skills, customer oriented, team player, business acumen, autonomous and driven
- Fluent in English and French. Other languages are “plus”
- Ability to travel on regular basis.