CAPEX Team Leader

This is your challenge as CAPEX Team Leader

As a CAPEX Team Leader you lead a project engineer team for effective management of all Capital Expenditure projects for Nunspeet Factory equipment and infrastructure, ensuring all aspects are performed in accordance with Nestlé standards and best practices, with safety and environmental compliance at the forefront. You are also responsible for ensuring that the financial management of all such projects is always maintained to a high degree of accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring compliance with all relevant health and safety regulations, and promoting a safe working environment through the project lifecycles.
• Assign projects/tasks, manage resources, and facilitate collaboration among the factory to achieve project objectives, while also directly managing projects.
• Lead and coordinate the project team and maintain competencies, motivation and performance to achieve the project team mission and objectives.
• Ensure that there exists within the project team an attitude of absolute intolerance for unsafe situations regarding people, (product) quality or the environment.
• Manage the selection/recruitment of team members by ensuring that the team possesses the required skill levels and that all relevant management functions are represented.
• Support PE (Project Engineer) in the definition of the Project Baseline (Scope/WBS, Schedule, Budget), breaking down detailed technical, product and project scope into work packages and activities that enable accurate estimates and resource allocation.
• Ensure that requirements and inputs from the operational team are captured and incorporated at an early stage.
• When working with external engineering services, contractors, suppliers etc., ensure that scope, deliverables, performance and milestones are clearly detailed and agreed up front.
• Conduct regular engineering and project control reviews with the project team to ensure execution is on track (safety, quality, cost & schedule) and to identify and implement remedial actions in case of deviation from project objectives.
• Ensure that the design is directed towards a low cost, highly efficient and flexible operation.
• Ensure that adequate project control systems needed to manage risk, cost and schedule are timely in place.
• Ensure implementation of state-of-the-art technical solutions and compliance with internal and external quality, safety and ecology standards.
• Ensure successful hand-over of the project to the user team, including the right level of training and correct documentation.
• Continuously challenge the way things are done and always look for opportunities.

As CAPEX Team Leader you report to the Head of Engineering and you are part of the Engineering department of Nestlé Netherlands in Nunspeet.

What we are looking for

• Bachelor’s Degree in the direction of mechanical or maintenance Engineering, with experience in areas of engineering, project or maintenance in an industrial manufacturing environment.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to motivate and guide a team.
• Ability to coach and develop people and enable results through others.
• Problem-solving and decision-making abilities to quickly address project issues and make sound judgments.
• Proven knowledge of project management.
• Proven experience in project execution.
• Excellent communication in Dutch and English, with strong team interaction and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as lead/participate on cross-functional teams.
• Proven experience as a self-starter who effectively manages multiple tasks and achieves results with minimal supervision.

What the job offers

• Excellent employment conditions, including a 13th-month salary and 25 vacation days.
• You are going to work together with our technical specialists within Nestlé Nutrition/ Health Science.
• You will develop your project management skills following Nestlé and international standards.
• You will be working on a product which has a lot of meaning to a vulnerable group.
• A nice working environment, chemistry, company pride and passionate colleagues.
• Various career development opportunities, both in the Netherlands and internationally.
• The various activities and perspectives within Nestlé give you the perfect opportunity to grow and develop yourself in maintenance and project management areas (internationally), making the job a real challenge.

careers@nl.nestle.com