Project Manager

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This position reports to

Head of Project Execution

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will oversee various customer projects within the ABB Traction division in Turgi / Switzerland, providing clear guidance, tasks and milestones, while motivating and providing feedback. Reporting to the Project Management Team Lead, you will maintain and enhance customer satisfaction by ensuring that customer requirements and all targets are met, providing excellent service at every stage of the project. You will be mainly accountable for: • Leading the project team, establishing the project execution approach, and overseeing initiation, planning, execution and monitoring & control activities for internal and external stakeholders to accomplish all project goals. • Identifying, qualifying, quantifying, managing project risks, and ensuring all opportunities are identified and pursued. • Oversee commercial aspects of order execution relating to several customer projects with the aim of ensuring quality and efficiency • Act as reliable point of contact for customers (change management, FATs, claim management, etc.) • Driving the formal acceptance of the project, contract close-out, and acknowledgment by the customer, all in accordance with the contract. • Report status / progress to internal stakeholders and the customer with appropriate detail • Contribute to internal improvement projects, applying Lean Six Sigma methods

Qualifications for the role

• Mandatory: At least 4 years of experience in management of project scope, cost, schedules, and vendors/subcontractors
• Familiarity with drives or (traction) converter value chain
• A collaborative, solution-focused approach, and strong written and spoken communication skills
• A Bachelor’s degree e.g. in Business Administration or Engineering
• Professional level in English and German, other languages an asset
• Project Management certification (e.g. PMP / IPMA)
• Knowledge in Railway technology

More about us

ABB Traction is a leader in traction technologies, driving innovation in rail and e-mobility. Our propulsion, auxiliary and energy storage solutions contribute to making transportation more sustainable, while saving energy every day. Our people and culture are the foundation of our success. We all together make the difference for our customers every day. We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). The recruiting process is being led by Sofia-Li Andersson, Talent Partner ABB Switzerland Ltd. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. ABB Data Privacy Statement: https://new.abb.com/privacy-notice/candidate Work model: hybrid #LI-hybrid