Project Manager

Location: 

Rødkærsbro, DK

Project Manager, Arla Foods, Rødkærsbro
 

Are you looking for a great opportunity to develop your project management skills in a production environment where growth is part of our journey? Do you appreciate working in a highly dynamic team with great possibilities to take lead and set your mark on our business and operational development? Than you might be the new colleague we are looking for as Project Manager in the packaging department at Rødkærsbro Dairy. 

 

You will be a part of a team with four operational specialist and four team leaders. The department has 145 employees in total and has four subdepartments with 10 production lines . In your daily work, you will spend most of the time working with cross-functional project groups locally at Rødkærsbro Dairy and with colleagues from our headquarter in Viby J (Aarhus, Denmark).

 

We are facing a tremendously exciting journey with the implementation of two new state-of-the-art production lines, as well as the modernization of older equipment for our packaging lines in Rødkærsbro. In addition, we have had an enormous growth in the industry in recent years. Therefore, I need a project manager who can ensure deliverables of CAPEX projects and take lead on improvement activities in collaboration with a very strong team.” says Operations Manager Lasse Sørensen

 

Read more about our part of the business here: A LIVING LINK BETWEEN FARM AND FRIDGE | Arla

 

 

How you will make an impact

As project manager you will take ownership of one of the main scopes of our production expansion project and take lead on delivering a new retail packaging line with end-to-end capabilities from processing semi-finished goods to customer fulfillment of a packed product.  Further, you will be continuously working to develop our way-of-working with project deliverables.

 

Our key words in any position is safety, motivation, food safety and efficiency, when you will…
 

  • be leading CAPEX projects together with project groups and reference groups
  • aligning requirement between Arla and suppliers
  • making and evaluating technical requirement specifications
  • supervise project budgets and resource plans
  • creating and deliver business cases for possible future investments
     

This role will be organized in the packaging department at Rødkærsbro Dairy with great opportunity of hybrid workplace.

 

 

What will make you successful 
The ideal candidate has a natural approach to take ownership and responsibility of the projects or tasks at hand. The candidate strive to achieve the target while doing so in a structured and professional way. You have very good social- and communication skills and are able to build relations and commitment from a wide variety of colleagues from cross-functions. It is important you are decisive and take pride in prioritizing a high level of integrity.

 

In addition, we imagine that you:   

 

  • have a few years of experiences from project management or manufacturing specialist position, possibly at entry level.
  • has a university degrees within engineering/technology or similar.
  • have some experience with indirect leadership
  • have great IT skills
  • speaks and write English a professional/technical level

 

What do we offer? 
Rødkærsbro Mejeri is among the world's leading producers of mozzarella and pizza topping for the grocery, restaurant and trading industries. We have just over 400 employees at the dairy, which has been developing rapidly since its establishment in the early 90s.

 

You will become part of a very professional organization, with great ambition and high expectations. You will be welcomed by a fantastic team spirit, and by a highly professional team who will assist with professionalism and specialization.

 

Would you like to join us? 
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please send your application as soon as possible, as we will do interviews on an ongoing basis.

 

If you have any questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Operations Manager Lasse Sørensen on tel.: +45 91 31 40 14 

 

We have a purpose for Good

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

 

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Description

Example of position

  • Project Manager

Level definition

Leader/Specialist with major impact on the success of a department or a key project delivery.

Executes operational plans or delivers high-profile/specialist projects with a direct impact on functional success. Challenges processes and practices identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities

  • Partly responsible for managing the constraints of the project, including cost, time, scope and quality of outcome.
  • Manages project team members in a small/medium-scale project.
  • Responsible for planning and management of projects to ensure that the specified project objectives are achieved to agreed specifications.
  • Ensures continuous business anchoring of the project through close dialogue with the pro-ject sponsors and key stakeholders.
  • Ensures that the Arla Foods project process is followed and that the appropriate tools and systems are used to report and document changes and results throughout the project.
  • Ensures that legislation is kept and that important knowledge/results from the project are documented and protected.
  • Ensures a smooth and efficient project completion. That also includes suggesting changes of the project organisation if needed.
  • Participates in the development of Arla Foods project culture by giving feedback on existing or new tools/systems/processes relevant to project management in Arla Foods.

Educational background/Experience

  • Documented experienced as a small/medium-scale project manager.
  • Documented experience as a project team member in a large-scale project.
  • One year of business management experience.

Band: E1

Competencies

01. Global Mindset
02. Organisation understanding
03. Intellectual power
04. Create direction
05. Show integrity & judgement
06. Build positive relationships
07. Build commitment
08. Live the change
09. Enable the team
10. Add ambition
11. Be decisive
12. Develop self & others

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