Key Skills
Job Description
Overview
RoviSys Netherlands is looking for a Project Manager (PM) for our growing Automation team. PMs must have the ability to manage projects from start to finish, while leading a team of engineers at a high level. Experience with project financials, reporting, invoicing, procurement, drafting change orders, and coordination with customers.
Primary employment location can be Groningen or Utrecht, Netherlands, Berlin or Frankfurt Germany, or Dublin, Ireland or London, UK.
Responsibilities
Travel to Customer sites
- This position may include up to 30-50% travel. All travel from location of employment is paid by RoviSys, taxes may apply depending on country and country of employment.
Team Leadership
- Provide guidance, leadership, and mentorship to less experienced team members.
- Provide technical support to RoviSys engineering and commissioning teams.
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers and trade partners.
- Support the prioritization and assignment of tasks across internal teams and trades.
- Lead customer and project coordination meetings.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with customers and trade partners.
Documentation and Engineering Oversight
- Enforce quality plans for projects and monitors projects for quality throughout the project lifecycle.
- Responsible for final technical approval of engineering solutions and designs for projects.
- Provide technical guidance to project team when required
- Enforce use of engineering standards.
- Participate and contribute to QMS.
Commissioning Methodology
- Understanding of customer demonstrations and acceptance testing
- Understanding of point-to-point loop checks, functional tests, and status of the site Cx plan for all systems
- Participate in field related design modification meetings
Project Management Task
- Accountable for project margin and takes steps to increase the financial health of the project.
- Establish schedule for projects and carefully monitor project for completion.
- Review and monitor potential sources of risk and strategies for mitigation.
- Presents Project Schedule, Scope, and Resource Plan to divisional Director/Group Manager.
- Serve as the primary commercial contact for customers
- Determine causes of deviations from the project plan or schedule and the recommended corrective actions.
- Understanding of Risk Analyses and Mitigation Plan
- Participate in divisional staffing and is adept at securing and sharing resources.
- Manage large projects and/or multiple concurrent projects.
- Regularly communicate directly with account manager, group manager, division director on project and/or account status.
- Demonstrate the ability to balance project finances, customer satisfaction, and team development.
- Demonstrate excellent communications, planning, organization, leadership, and motivation skills.
- Contributes to the development of tools that facilitate project management.
Project Financials and Contracts management
- Responsible for accurately forecasting resources for their projects.
- Responsible for project financials including but not limited to: Project Financial Reporting, Cost projections/cash flow reporting, Monthly job Invoicing, Quantify and draft change orders.
- Capable of negotiating Terms & Conditions with customers.
Employees' Growth
- Provide feedback to Group Managers to assist with employee appraisals.
- Create positive work environment to promote the development of newer engineers.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Professional level English (C1, C2, or native)
- At least 3 years of project leadership experience – project management or technical lead
- Experience organizing, scheduling, and leading meetings with internal teams and customers
- Microsoft Office (Word and Excel)
- Microsoft Project, Primaveral or similar
- Understanding of HVAC systems in large building automation systems.
- Understanding sequence of operations and P&IDs for HVAC and plant utilities.
- Understanding instrumentation and control valves for HVAC systems.
- Building automation and/or industrial controls experience (Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider, AVEVA, Inductive Automation)
- Onsite commissioning experience
Preferred qualifications
- 2nd European language: German, Dutch, Spanish, French, or Italian (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2, or native)
- Project management professional (PMP) certification
- 5+ years of managing preferably large and complex
- Programable Logic Controller (PLC) based automation systems (>€10m)
- Mechanical cooling and heating systems (>20MW)
- Electrical systems (>20MW)
- 5+ years of experience in the construction of critical environments:
- Hyper-scale data centers
- Pharmaceutical production facilities
- Oil and gas processing facilities
- Chemical production facilities
- Or similar facilities
Core Responsibilities
Lead automation projects from planning through completion, managing schedules, resources, risks, project margins, financial reporting, invoicing, and change orders. Guide engineering teams, oversee technical quality and commissioning, and serve as the primary technical and commercial contact for customers and trade partners.
Requirements
Requires professional-level English, at least three years of project leadership experience, experience organizing and leading meetings, and familiarity with Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project, Primavera, or similar tools. Candidates should understand HVAC and building automation or industrial controls, including commissioning; preferred qualifications include a second European language, PMP certification, and extensive experience with large automation systems or critical facilities.
About RoviSys
Industry: Automation Machinery Manufacturing
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
As one of the world's largest independent systems integrators, RoviSys delivers comprehensive automation, digital transformation, manufacturing execution (MES), Industrial AI, discrete manufacturing, and information solutions that help customers improve performance, increase reliability, and accelerate innovation. Our expertise spans process automation, discrete manufacturing, industrial IT/OT, manufacturing intelligence, data infrastructure, cybersecurity, and enterprise integration. From concept and design through implementation, commissioning, and lifecycle support, we partner with leading organizations across life sciences, food and beverage, chemicals, energy, oil and gas, metals, consumer products, food and beverage, semiconductor, data center, and other critical industries. Our engineers combine deep industry knowledge with practical experience to solve complex operational challenges and deliver measurable business results. What sets RoviSys apart is our commitment to vendor independence, technical excellence, and long-term partnerships. We recommend and integrate the technologies that best fit each customer's objectives, creating scalable solutions that protect investments, deliver measurable ROI, and prepare organizations for the future. RoviSys employs more than 2000 engineers, developers, project managers, and technical specialists serving customers across North America, LATAM, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Our regional offices are supported by global expertise, and we deliver the responsiveness of a local partner with the capabilities of an international automation leader. For more than 35 years, RoviSys has helped manufacturers connect systems, leverage data, modernize operations, and confidently navigate the future of industrial automation.
