The Big Picture:

Howden is a leading global engineering business who focuses on providing mission critical air and gas handling products to our clients, helping them to increase their environmental and operational efficiencies. We recognize the value of people and truly believe that by working together, aligned to a common purpose, we all have the opportunity to grow, learn and make a difference. Our expertise has made a valuable difference for our clients for the past 100+ years, and we are now looking for Manager Engineering who will join our team and supports us in making a valuable difference in the century to come.

The Manager Engineering is accountable for all engineering activities, starting at proposal engineering support for sales opportunities and ending at the on-time delivery of all engineering deliverables. The role focusses on the performance and development of the Engineering organization, consisting of the project, product and package engineering teams. The Manager Engineering ensures that people and processes in the Engineering function are delivering to the performance requirements in terms of order intake, on-time delivery, cost of poor quality, variances, productivity and other relevant measures as applicable.

This is a unique opportunity to work with a highly motivated team to capture the growth opportunities in our markets, including the renewable hydrogen market. Join us in this exciting journey!

What needs to be done?

• Ensures that processes are aligned across the various engineering disciplines and is responsible for realizing a unified engineering process and structure within the organization. There should be a strong focus on people processes with and in the leadership team in Engineering to ensure talent and performance are maintained on a high level.

• Responsible for establishing strong connections with the Chart Europe and global Engineering teams and uses this connection to optimize performance in terms of scalability, flexibility and cost reduction in the engineering function.

• Develops a long-term strategy for the engineering function, taking long term business goals and market developments into account and translate this in to near and mid term objectives and development goals for the engineering function.

• Accountable for the performance of the entire new build engineering function and performing all people leader related activities, including coaching, talent management, retention, performance management, recruitment, wellbeing, absenteeism management etc.

• Establish a Zero Defects culture – ensure quality of deliverables, reduce cost of poor quality to zero.

• Ensure 100% On-Time Delivery of detailed engineering milestones, capable of meeting demand fluctuations.

• This position is part of the middle management team of our location that has a collective responsibility to achieve the company annual operational goals.

What do you need to bring?

• Bachelor degree in Engineering or equivalent.

• Proven experience in leading people with respect to performance and development – ability to develop and coach people leaders.

• Communication – strong communicator, easily establishing relations on individual and team level, able to build a motivating and stimulating culture within the engineering function.

• Change management – demonstrated ability to effectively lead change in organizations.

• Coordination and delegation – retain oversight on activities and priorities, delegate and prioritize accordingly.

• Demonstrated competencies in identifying, implementation and delivering impact through process improvements.

• Full proficiency in the English language to navigate in international business environments.

• We prefer candidates with experience in EPC contracts and Engineered-to-Order projects and experience in leading technical proposal- or engineering activities.

• We prefer candidates with experience in Configure-to-Order processes, product/solution standardization and experience in manufacturing engineering / DfX processes.

• Pro-active attitude, ability to anticipate challenges and set-backs, ability to mitigate the impact for the business and for the team.

• Creative mindset with a customer focus.

• Team player and self-starter.

• Strong analytic skills and fact-based decision making.

• Occasional travel could be required.

What will you get in return?

You will get the chance to contribute to the energy transition and to work with local and global teams with a good atmosphere and dedicated colleagues. We offer an interesting and challenging position within a professional, international organization with freedom to act and the opportunity to work with a variety of stakeholders. As part of the middle management of HTC, you will focus on having an impact and lead the business and your team. As we consider talent management as key to the success of our organization, we offer opportunities for personal and professional development.

About us:

We enable our customers’ vital processes , which advance a more sustainable world . This is the Howden vision that drives us! Liaise with our colleagues in 34 countries. We offer global and local opportunities , 6000 employees and world leading engineers, who create cutting edge developments .

You will be a part of over 160 years of innovation and development that continues today with our digital solutions. At Howden we have a strong corporate identity and purpose . You will be a member of our team, shaping the future of the world and tackling some of the most pressing issues facing the planet. Our products and organization are Revolving Around You. Our culture promotes individual development to enhance our most important asset – our people.