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CHIEF PROJECT MANAGER FOR GROUND ENGINEERING

Location:
Lyngby, Denmark
Closing date:
23/05/2014
​Every day at COWI, you will get a golden opportunity to use your world-class knowledge to solve the most challenging problems and deliver 360° solutions to our customers. With us, your knowledge will make a difference.
For our office in Lyngby, Denmark, we are currently looking for a Chief Project Manager within ground engineering for our Department for Marine and Foundation Engineering. Our main market areas are offshore wind, marine terminals, ports and coastal engineering and, within ground engineering, also tunnels and bridges. We are a part of COWI's major business line, Bridge, Tunnel and Marine Structures, and work in a highly international environment with projects all over the world.
The department currently employs 90 dedicated employees and is divided into four sections, two of which focus on ground engineering. Our 40 geotechnical engineers and geologists are part of a unique professional and international environment with more than 120 employees working with ground engineering in COWI's offices worldwide.
You will be part of the management team in the department with specific responsibility for managing large projects and ground engineering-related parts of large multidisciplinary projects. Depending on your qualifications and interests, your projects will include metros and metro stations, C&C tunnels, large bridges, offshore wind foundations, marine terminals and ports.
Coordination and cooperation with other units in COWI as well as continuous contact with the market and external customers represent an important part of your job.

Your knowledge

  • Strong technical background within ground engineering
  • Experience from working in one or more of our key market segments
  • More than five years of experience with project management of complex projects in an international environment
  • Good knowledge of contractual and legal issues
  • Great communication skills in English (oral and written).

Your personality

  • You enjoy working in an ambitious and sometimes demanding working environment. 
  • You are able to maintain an overview in a complex environment.
  • You have a holistic mind-set and unleash the full potential of your project teams.
  • You are able to work across disciplines and to manage cultural differences.
  • You handle customer relations with excellence and engagement.


POWERING YOUR 360° SOLUTIONS

COWI is a leading consulting group that creates value for customers, people and society through our unique 360° approach. Based on our world-class competencies within engineering, economics and environmental science, we tackle challenges from many vantage points to create coherent solutions for our customer.
With offices all over the world, we combine global presence with local knowledge to take on projects anywhere in the world – no matter how large or small. At any given moment, we are involved in more than 17,000 projects.
We have more than 80 years of experience in the business, and COWI is a leader within its field because our more than 6,200 employees are leaders within theirs. Together with our customers, we create coherence in tomorrow's sustainable societies.

SEND APPLICATION

Please send your application by 23 May 2014 torihi@cowi.dk