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Project Manager

Location: 

Cary, NC, US, 27511

Work Site:  Onsite
Duration:  Permanent / Unlimited
Date:  Apr 27, 2026

Two billion people eat food every day that was produced with Bühler equipment. One billion people drive vehicles whose parts were manufactured with our machines.​ Bühler aims to balance humanity, nature, and the economy in every decision as it develops solutions that unlock sustainable business opportunities in the global food, feed, and mobility industries. We strive to create innovations for a better world, with a special focus on healthy, safe, and sustainable solutions. Therefore, we team up with customers, start-ups, multinationals, and academia to accelerate impact together.

Summary

Managing and leading the project team including internal partners, engineering subcontractors as well as external interfaces. (Type C and D projects)

Profit and loss responsibility for the allocated project by delivering the project within time, budget and cash targets in the required quality whilst optimizing the margin.

Ensuring compliance with Bühler related directives and EHS standards.

Job Responsibilities

  • Ensures that the project schedule baseline is agreed upon the involved parties at the start of the project
  • Manage and lead the project team to achieve and further improve the cost, schedule, quality and EHS targets
  • Perform proper risk and opportunity management
  • Ensure proper deviation management within the project. Assess, approve and expedite technical aspects of change orders and define effective claim strategies towards clients, partners, subcontractors, etc.
  • Prepare and perform Project Reviews as requested, report according to Bühler Project Management process
  • Responsible for the site briefing meeting; Ensures that all site relevant documents are handed over to site personnel.
  • Develop and maintain corresponding relationships with clients, partners and main subcontractors to ensure smooth operation of projects and smooth dispute resolution
  • Establish, implement and maintain operating standards to ensure quality project results and customer satisfaction
  • Capture return of experience and best practice, apply lessons learned. Organizes and accomplish a debriefing meeting
  • Supervise, support and coach the Project Team Members, provide input to project people performance reviews to functions
  • Supervise the final negotiations for the allocated project and provides an execution strategy

 

Qualifications

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Strong project management skills
  • Strong teamwork and leadership skills
  • Customer focus
  • Strong planning and organizing skills
  • Sound judgment and decision-making skills
  • Ability to anticipate, identify and manage risk
  • Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
  • Ability to work in a matrix organization
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to interface effectively with people inside and outside of the company
  • Industry-, as well as general business and financial knowledge
  • Ability to be detail oriented without losing sight of the big picture
  • Comfortable working on multiple projects at one time. Able to plan and organize work in order to meet project dates and objectives

 

Technical Skills (BU/BA specific requirements)

  • Ability to understand and communicate technical information
  • Familiarity with reviewing, interpreting, and communicating details from mechanical drawings and electrical schematics

 

Measurement / Key Performance Indicators

  • Development of gross margin and provisions on the project
  • Accuracy of forecasting
  • Project KPIs SPI and CPI
  • Development of the number of project related complaints
  • Development of cost, time schedule and quality on the project
  • Compliance with processes, procedures and tools
  • Meeting the time schedule and quality targets of all documentation
  • Provision of experience feedback to other projects

 

Educational Requirements

Mandatory

Desirable
  • Bachelor degree (or equivalent) in Engineering
  • English level FCE
  • PMI Certification
  • Multilingual

 

Experience

Mandatory

Desirable
  • Minimum 3 years as Project Engineer or corresponding Project Management experience
  • Basic commercial knowledge for assessing business risks and opportunities to undertake commercial negotiations
  • Technical and commercial knowledge covering multiple disciplines
  • Strong planning, organising and priority setting skills, with a proven ability to manage teams
  • Planning, organising and coordinating skills in an international environment
  • Proven ability to build relationships with clients, suppliers and contractors
  • SAP experience
  • Experience in industrial manufacturing of OEM equipment

 

 

At Bühler we are not only offering working opportunities and international exchange of like-minded professionals. We are more than just a global company. Our value proposition to transform the way companies feed and move the world, is driving positive change in the industries in which we operate globally. Become a part of a dynamic environment that combines your drive for innovation with a world ​of possibilities.​ Joining us means embracing a shared purpose of creating innovations for a better world while becoming part of a company that is dedicated to your success.

As a global organization, we embrace the diversity of our global workforce. At Bühler, you will collaborate with professionals from around the world, each bringing in a unique perspective to the table. It is a business priority for us to harness the diversity of our global workforce and include them in their uniqueness to create a culture of belonging guided by our TOP values – Trust, Ownership and Passion. Embark on a journey that combines the excitement of global collaboration with the reassurance of a welcoming workplace.

Let’s create impact together! 

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