Project Engineering Manager

About GEA

• GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 60 countries contribute significantly to GEA’s success – come and join them! We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.

• Why join GEA

• GEA is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will therefore receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, religion, world view, national origin, genetics, disability, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other protected characteristic required by applicable law. Applicants with disabilities are welcome and will be given special consideration if they are equally qualified.

Your profile and qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Process, Manufacturing or related Engineering discipline.

• Chartered Engineer status or equivalent professional accreditation desirable.

• Project Management qualification (APM, PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent) desirable.

• Significant experience leading engineering project delivery within a multi-disciplinary engineering environment.

• Proven experience managing engineering teams, resources, workloads, and delivery performance.

• Strong understanding of project lifecycle management, engineering governance, risk management, and technical reviews.

• Experience of delivering capital equipment projects within regulated industries such as Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Food, or Process Industries.

• Experience working with ERP/SAP systems, Bills of Materials, engineering change management, and manufacturing release processes.

• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities across multiple projects while maintaining delivery performance.

• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance technical, schedule, cost, and customer requirements.

• Experience collaborating with Manufacturing, Procurement, Quality, Product Management, and Project Management functions.

• Strong leadership, coaching, mentoring, and people development capability.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across all levels of the organisation.

• Ability to influence decisions and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.

• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills with a pragmatic, delivery-focused approach.

• Commitment to engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and development of best practices.

• Experience working within global, multi-cultural engineering organisations.

• Ability to communicate complex technical and business information clearly to customers, project teams, and senior management.

Your responsibilities and tasks

• Provide day-to-day leadership and operational management of the Project Engineering team.

• Ensure successful delivery of engineering work packages across the project portfolio, meeting scope, budget, schedule, quality, and compliance requirements.

• Develop resource strategies and capacity plans to meet current and future project demands.

• Monitor engineering performance, utilisation, and delivery KPIs, taking corrective actions where required.

• Provide regular updates to Project Management and Engineering Leadership on progress, risks, resource constraints, and improvement opportunities.

• Lead the allocation and prioritisation of engineering resources across projects and business objectives.

• Support technical escalation, risk mitigation, and resolution of complex engineering, manufacturing, and procurement challenges.

• Ensure effective management of SAP/ERP engineering data, Bills of Materials, engineering releases, and project documentation.

• Drive collaboration between Engineering, Project Management, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Product Management, and Site Services.

• Support customer meetings, project reviews, design reviews, and key technical discussions where required.

• Promote and ensure the application of engineering standards, procedures, best practices, and regulatory compliance requirements.

• Lead engineering design review processes (PDR, CDR, technical reviews) and ensure resulting actions are effectively managed.

• Develop team capability through recruitment, coaching, mentoring, succession planning, performance management, and career development.

• Support PDP activities, appraisals, objective setting, training plans, and workforce development initiatives.

• Identify opportunities to improve engineering tools, processes, standards, knowledge management, and ways of working.

• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.

• Support business growth initiatives by providing engineering input to strategic projects, new opportunities, and organisational development activities.