Junior Project Manager

Join us and take your career to the next level

As our Junior Project Manager, you'll be instrumental in delivering Crane Upgrades projects on schedule and within budget. You'll facilitate every stage from contract to handover, meticulously managing scope, timelines, and costs. Your accountability will cover the preparation and timely delivery of all quality deliverables for project planning, execution, and communication.

What are your key responsibilities:

• End-to-End Project Leadership: Manages complex projects from contract to handover, including SAP software implementations, ensuring delivery within established budget, schedule, and quality goals.

• Contract & Scope Management: Assumes direct contract responsibility, defining project scope, requirements, and timelines, while ensuring all disciplines adhere to ordered specifications.

• Primary Customer & Stakeholder Liaison Acts as the prime point of contact for the customer and main project manager, building strong relationships and facilitating clear communication throughout the project.

• Team Alignment & Execution Ensures project activities are understood, and commitment is gained from the project team to meet overall objectives, driving effective project planning and quality.

• Financial & Performance Monitoring Responsible for meticulous project budget and actual cost monitoring, internal reporting, and providing regular progress updates based on customer needs.

• Proactive Issue & Commercial Management Handles exceptions (scope, budget, schedule, technical) effectively with all parties, and identifies opportunities for add-on sales in cooperation with the sales team.

What we offer you:

“Green business is good business – it’s not just a slogan; we’re investing in fossil-free steel and real change.”​

• Rewards that truly count: We offer meaningful development opportunities through varied assignments, fair and gender-neutral pay, and flexible working conditions — all within a culture that values your growth and celebrates success. 

• Work-Life Balance: Our generous time-off policy includes 27 vacation days and 13 ATV days, supporting a healthy balance between your professional and personal life.

• Safety that moves us forward: Build your career with a company rooted in safety since the 1940s, ensuring stability and an environment that empowers you to speak and be heard.

• Purpose that drives change: You'll contribute to solutions that transform global trade, creating environmental and operational innovations. You'll be in the driver's seat of ideas, developing digital technologies that set industry standards and position us as the forerunner.

• People who move together: You'll collaborate with people who build lasting relationships through global expertise, connections, and a commitment to sustainability.

Become part of our global network of 5,200 professionals across 120+ countries, where your work drives innovation, sustainability, and meaningful impact around the world.

What you bring to the role:

• Qualifications: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or related field. Fresh graduate or 1–3 years of experience in a similar business. Fluency in English and Dutch.

• Technical Expertise: You bring engineering know-how in your field. Your work is grounded in quality, safety, innovation, and real-world application.

• Safety Commitment: Strong awareness and adherence to safety protocols to ensure a secure work environment for yourself and your colleagues.

• Customer Focus: Demonstrates the ability to prioritize the end user’s needs by being curious about how customers use our solutions, understanding their pain points, and identifying opportunities leading to practical outcomes

• Proactive Team Player: You are self-driven in tackling challenges and continuously improving your skills, where you value feedback and see teamwork as essential to finding the best solutions.

Ready to elevate your career? Apply today!

We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis, and the position will be filled as soon as the most suitable candidate is identified.

Please note that we do not accept referrals through our job advertisements from external agencies.

For more information about this role, contact Bianca Olthoff, Country HR Manager via Bianca.Olthoff@kalmarglobal.com

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