
Project Manager - Technology & Innovation Office
Work Arrangement
Office Days per Week: 3 days
Key Skills
Job Description
About Wavin Orbia Building & Infrastructure Business:
What if your work could improve how water moves, how cities adapt, and how buildings perform every day? At Wavin, Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, this is what we do. Count on a warm welcome, where purpose comes to life. Here, we take responsibility for each other and our company, stay brave in pursuing innovation, and embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents. We encourage our employees to develop their talents and become the best version of themselves. Working as a strong team, we grow and advance life around the world. You will join an international, professional team and benefit from a competitive compensation package.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead innovation projects through Wavin's Stage-Gate development process, ensuring projects are delivered according to scope, timing, budget, and quality requirements.
Maintain project governance, reporting, budgets, resource planning, and milestone tracking across multiple projects.
Coordinate cross-functional teams including R&D, Operations, Quality, Procurement, Marketing, and regional stakeholders.
Act as a technical contributor within projects, providing engineering input, evaluating technical decisions, and helping teams resolve complex challenges.
Identify risks early and drive mitigation plans to keep projects on track.
Challenge unclear requirements, and ensure alignment between stakeholders.
Ensure all required deliverables, including validation, certification, manufacturing readiness, and stakeholder approvals, are completed to enable successful product launches with zero critical compliance or quality gaps.
Act as a central point of expertise for technical, design, processing, and application-related aspects of relevant product ranges.
Who We Are Looking For
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering (Plastics, Mechanical, Industrial Design, Electronics, or similar).
Proven Project Manager with experience in product development, manufacturing, industrial, or other technical environments.
Experience with new product development and industrial manufacturing processes; plastics processing knowledge is an advantage.
Strong problem solver with excellent analytical skills and the ability to identify risks, assess project health, and make sound decisions in dynamic environments.
Skilled stakeholder manager who can align, influence, and challenge cross-functional teams across R&D, Operations, Quality, Procurement, and Marketing.
Hands-on, resilient, results-driven, and proactive, with a focus on delivering successful outcomes.
Fluent in English and Dutch, both written and spoken.
Willingness to travel up to 20%.
Why Join Wavin?
A highly varied role combining project leadership, engineering involvement, and cross-functional collaboration.
Work alongside experienced technical specialists and innovation teams.
Opportunity to make a visible impact within a global organization committed to innovation and sustainability.
Enjoy a flexible hybrid working environment, with 3 days per week in our Dedemsvaart office and 2 days working from home.
Wavin, Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 70 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by ensuring safe and efficient water supply, sanitation and hygiene, climate-resilient cities, and better building performance. Wavin has over 10,000 employees across more than 40 production sites worldwide, serving customers in over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, and Plastigama Wavin.
Wavin, Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business is committed to inclusive hiring. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, background, sexual orientation, disability or any other characteristic.
Recruitment agencies are requested not to respond to this vacancy. Unsolicited applications from third parties in general are also not accepted.
Core Responsibilities
Lead innovation projects through the Stage-Gate development process while managing scope, budget, and cross-functional team coordination. Act as a technical expert to resolve complex engineering challenges and ensure all product launch requirements are met.
Requirements
Requires a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering and proven experience in project management within technical or manufacturing environments. Candidates must possess strong analytical skills, stakeholder management abilities, and fluency in both English and Dutch.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Flexible hybrid working environment
About Orbia
Industry: Utilities
Company size: 10,001+ employees
Orbia is a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in the Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor & Energy Materials sectors. The five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on ensuring food and water security, expanding information access and connectivity and advancing decarbonization and the energy transition with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 22,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with a strong U.S. manufacturing presence and headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv.