Engineering Project Manager

**Description**:** Purpose of the Position**

Project Managers have end-to-end full accountability to deliver business objectives through the efficient execution of capital projects, ensuring compliance with Corteva values related to safety, environment protection, ethics, innovation and collaboration.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Business case / Front-end Loading (FEL) development
- Guides functional teams to determine overall objectives and timelines of prospective projects, supporting yearly capital planning.
- Serves as the focal point to develop alternatives that meet business needs, using internal seed processing knowledge, project management expertise, and market trends and technologies.
- Staffs project teams timely and effectively, with internal and external resources, ensuring roles and responsibilities are clearly understood, team workload is reasonable, cross-functional communications are adequate, and conflicts are managed.
- Leads project teams to execute the required deliverables, ensuring completeness and quality of data, to formalize business requirements, design criteria, and project plans, scope, cost, schedule and quality.
- Communicates with stakeholders to grant formal project authorization.

**Design**
- Collaborates with internal customers and the project team to develop basic documentation, engaging outside consultants and contractors, as needed.
- Ensures design is developed according to project objectives and execution strategy, and that a robust quality assurance process is applied to check and approve the deliverables.
- Ensures smooth transition of design information throughout stages and among functional teams.

**Procurement**
- Ensures Corteva procurement practices are in place.
- Ensures procurement plans are approved by Procurement team.
- Engages functional teams to approve offers, from technical and management standpoints.
- Engages functional teams to review and approve contracts, when required.
- Ensures purchase orders are issued timely and with all required information.
- Ensures effective expediting and contract management.
- Approves invoices and guarantees payments are executed timely.

**Construction**
- Acts as the champion of safety.
- Ensures contractors are aligned with safety and quality requirements.
- Ensures contractors know the project execution strategy and that their own strategies align with it.
- Ensures site teams are aligned with construction and safety plans.
- Ensures owner's teams are staffed to guarantee proper supervision and approval of field execution.

**Project Management and Performance**
- Delivers assets that are safe to operate and maintain.
- Ensures all required permits are in place for the execution of the projects.
- Guides the effective management of scope, schedule, budget, cash flow, risks, changes, and execution.
- Communicates with stakeholders and ensures consistent, effective, and regular project reports are provided.
- Ensures team members are properly recognized for their contributions.

**Project Closeout**
- Manages the capital accounting process, complying with internal policies and procedures.
- Partners with the business finance to prepare projects financial evaluations and reports, as required.

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**Qualifications**:** Experience and Professional Requirements**
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Civil, Electrical (including Automation) or Agriculture Engineering.
- 5+ years of experience managing or controlling industrial projects, managing design and/or construction.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams, manage external partners, and effectively guide and influence stakeholders.
- Solid interpersonal relationship skills, with good written and oral communication.
- Strong owner's mindset.
- Willingness to work irregular hours, when required.
- Highest standards of conduct and respect for others.

**Differentiators**:

- Project Management related master's degrees / specialization or broadly recognized professional certifications.
- Previous experience with seed / grain / food processing or general bulk material handling projects.
- Proficient English is mandatory. One or more of the following languages, in advanced level, is recommended: French, German, Hungarian, Rumanian, Ukrainian, Turkish.
- Travel requirements: 50% of time, within Europe.