CAPEX Lead

The CAPEX Lead is responsible for the design, execution and hand-over of CAPEX investment projects in Visp Shared Infrastructure areas within safety, cost, schedule, quality and functionality. This includes the capability to manage and to provide the leadership to a multinational project team as well the capability to interact with the senior management. This role is at a Senior Manager level and has operative leadership of midsize and large CAPEX projects in the range of 1 – 50 MCHF.

Responsibilities

·     Ensure the compliance with all pertinent safety policies, rules and regulations.

·     Establish the project CAPEX charter including scope of work, goals and deliverables together with the relevant site level senior management and stakeholders.

·     Execute the CAPEX project according to budget, scope and on-time deliverables

·     Ensure that the adequate project control systems needed to manage the risk, cost and schedule are timely in place.

·     Conduct regular engineering and project control reviews with the project team in order to ensure that the project execution is on track (safety, quality, cost & schedule) and to identify and implement remedial action(s) in case of any deviation from project objectives.

·     Define and implement overall project resources (internal and external) and to provide daily leadership.

·     To ensure the implementation of the state-of-the-art technical solutions and to ensure compliance with internal and external quality, safety and ecology standards.

·     Ensure the sharing and leveraging of best practices and expertise within engineering community.

·     Ensure the successful hand-over the project to the user-team including the right level of training and correct documentation

Candidate Profile

·     Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering (Mechanical / Plant Engineering or similar).

·     5-10 years of engineering experience thereof 5 years in investment projects (CAPEX) in an infrastructure environment (Energy, Waste water etc.)

·     Successful project management and leadership experience on major investment projects in international environment

·     Excellent project management skills including contract management

·     Broad project controlling and project appraisal knowledge

·     In-depth technical knowledge in infrastructure project engineering possibly in the chemical and / or pharmaceutical industry

·     Wide interdisciplinary knowledge

·     Extended HSE knowledge

·     Strong leader, motivating team player, drives results, excellent communication skills and experience in managing matrix-based cross-functional teams.

·     Solid internal and external collaboration and influencing skills and the ability to lead diverse, cross-functional teams in the successful delivery of projects.

·     Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.

·     Can conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

·     Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a fast-paced environment is crucial.

·     Ability to read communication styles of team members and contractors who come from a broad spectrum of disciplines.

·     Persuasive, encouraging, and motivating.

·     Strong written and oral communication skills.

·     Strong interpersonal skills

·     Fluent in German and English is a must