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Lead Planning Engineer

Posted 22 Mar 2024
Work experience
4 to 7 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required languages
English (Fluent)
Dutch (Fluent)

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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:

  • Establishes and manages an effective planning and progress control system within IPTEC. This control system encompasses all stages, workstreams and also external contractor activities within a given project;
  • Develops, implement and take care of compliance of IPTEC Project planning standards and alignment strategies between project planning and client and/or contractor information to corporate into the overall project master schedules;
  • As expert the Lead Planning Engineer is accountable for the methodology of planning in a project. He is not only advising the project but managing this WWW of scheduling for the whole project portfolio of IPTEC;
  • Functional manager for all external project planners on the several projects of IPTEC;
  • Develops plans and schedules with assigned project manager and/or(lead) project engineers to meet project objectives for project(s) through all the stages;
  • Challenges the overall master project schedule of a project and gives suggestions for improvement;
  • Highlight planning and schedule related problem areas and recommends remedial actions;
  • Evaluates critical paths in the project schedules and recommends alternative schedule options;
  • Challenges project plans on the risks and corrective measures and suggests proper control mechanism;
  • Participates in risk, opportunity and lessons learnt workshops and adapts and improves IPTEC Planning standards based on these outcomes;
  • Executes probabilistic analysis of completion dates and potential alternatives;
  • Check project progress by performing Estimated Value of Work Done calculations based on physical progress measurements as input for the cost forecasting and controls engineer;
  • The Lead Planning Engineer participates in Quality Board 2. He is responsible for the go/no go decision regarding planning and scheduling of IPTEC projects.

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:

  • Portfolio and Project activities mgt for IPTEC across sites, countries, partners and products;
  • Management of short, medium and long-term objectives;
  • Dynamic organisation context with many Stakeholders with partial degrees of decision power, but partially aligned objectives;
  • Maintaining a forefront position in Process Technology and Engineering in selected areas of excellence (within FC and external).
  • Bachelor Degree, for example in Logistics Management or Mechanical Engineering;
  • Able to guide and train less experienced planning engineers and project planners;
  • At least 4 years project planning experience with multidisciplinary investment projects, preferably in the process industry;
  • You have experience with different methods in project planning and you have the expertise to critically review progress of the existing projects:
  • Ability to break down complex data sets into simplified structures;
  • Create a schedule awareness atmosphere among all project participants;
  • Good understanding of logical construction sequences;
  • Good communication skills in Dutch and English, both in speaking and writing. Fluency in Dutch is a must.

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.

FMCG
Amersfoort
Active in 30 countries
20,000 employees
60% men - 40% women
Average age is 35 years

What employees are saying

Robin

Finance Trainee

Robin

“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.”

Suus

Supply Chain & Operations Trainee

Suus

"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!"