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Would you like to take the project planning and control expertise to the next phase within FrieslandCampina Ingredients Projects and Technology Excellence Center (IPTEC) as our Lead Planning Engineer? You are the functional manager of 6 Project Planners who are responsible for the project planning management for 100+ brown field and (turnkey) green field Capex and optimization projects within FrieslandCampina Ingredients. It is an important role as you are in a position to make the go-nogo call regarding projects.
A job that matters
To realise FrieslandCampina’s goals, it is important that every employee takes responsibility and fulfils his or her commitments. In all of this, Project Management is like a spider in the web, planning and guarding budgets and quality. Project Management adds value by tying it all together. Aiming for things that matter gets us all in the desired mind-set: it enables us to win in the market together. Our employees around the world have a strong drive to do things that matter and are commercially obsessed with adding value to those things that matter. Moreover, they have an owner’s mind-set, empowering them to make decisions on things that matter.
Job description
As our Lead Planning Engineer you are part of the IPTEC Project Management Office and it is your challenge to manage effectively a project planning and progress control system. The planning should support the Project Manager’s decision-making process and allow him to complete the project according to the internal baselines and in compliance with the contractual dates and requirements. Also the project planning should be crafted in such a way that it ensures that any deviation from plan can be promptly spotted and analysed, final time impact is estimated and the effect of corrective actions taken is monitored. You are able to further optimize the Way We Work project planning within IPTEC. You will guide the Project Managers IPTEC how to translate their project scope and milestones within their project planning. You will be responsible for planning methodology and project control in all stages of our projects, from Front End Engineering to Detail Design, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning. Furthermore, we ask you to monitor and coach the project planners and planning engineers that work within the 100+ project teams within FrieslandCampina Ingredients on different production plants.
The Lead Planning Engineer:
Business Group Ingredients (BGI) develops, produces, markets and sells on a B-to-B basis a range of milk and whey based ingredients and semi-finished/finished products. This includes consumer packaging for the B-to-C market of some of our customers. Through innovation in the broadest sense, BGI enables B-to-B customers and CPA to develop and market branded products which and meet consumer demands/needs, and generate added-value revenues. Innovative production processes are developed and implemented through structured execution of projects and programs using in-house, Corporate and External R&D, Engineering and Technology resources.
IPTEC is responsible for the turn-key delivery of about 100 active CAPEX-projects in parallel per year. The total annual investment of these projects are about €200-250M and the total Estimate At Completion (EAC) is around €800-900M. The projects are executed at 13 different locations, spread over the Netherlands, but also in other European countries, Asia and the US. Project planning for BGI Capex projects is recognized as key project control which should be brought at a higher level.
Complexity for IPTEC in:
FrieslandCampina is a purpose driven company focused on winning in the global market for dairy based products. We want to be profitable, so we can make a positive, lasting impact. Not only does FrieslandCampina have iconic B2C brands, a big part of the business is in the B2B market, where we sell ingredients and semi-finished products to manufacturers of nutrition, the food industry and the pharmaceutical sector globally.
“During my Traineeship I collaborated with the finance team of Nigeria to calculate the feasibility of setting up a cow breeding centre in West Africa. It is fantastic that FrieslandCampina strives for better nutrition for the world. I am proud to contribute to projects that achieve a better world.”
"I like the construct of a cooperation between member farmers assuring the quality of the milk, and Frieslandcampina turning it into an endless scale of dairy products. I never knew that the extent of possibilities of dairy products was so broad, in so many industries!"
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