Location: Ghent, Belgium
Type: Full-time, on-site
Duration: 3–4 years

Your role

Joining an ambitious and dynamic project, you will be part of the GP project team in Ghent as an Electrical Project Engineer for the scope related to adaptations in the existing Steel Shop. You will handle major sub-projects and work closely with the project managers/engineers in the team “Adaptations Steel Shop”:

The implementation of the new Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Steelmaking process will significantly impact our existing assets and operations. To ensure logistical alignment with the new EAF plant, our current Steel Shop will require both a series of substantial change projects as the erection of new Ladle Furnace (LF) for important metallurgical treatment of the EAF steel. The change projects will address key challenges, such as the heavy-load transport of hot metal and steel, the relocation of large existing assets, and the modification and rerouting of blocking structures, among others. The new LF scope includes the erection of a new ladle furnace and the associated material handling, water cooling and dedusting plant. The scope of these projects will be built entirely within the existing facilities of the Steel Shop, making it a real brownfield challenge.

Your expertise in coordinating and providing technical direction within the electrical discipline will be crucial in ensuring the team delivers this major project on time and within budget

Key tasks

• Responsible for the project management of several subprojects (>10MEURO) with a mainly electrical scope, considering highly complex brownfield conditions and production restrictions,
• You collaborate closely with EPCM and permitting partners (scope definition, reviewing schedules for deliverables, enforcing standardization).
• You are the main contact person to dive into technical discussions with suppliers and engineering contractors.
• You check and define technical requirements, designs and offers from a general technical, multidisciplinary and common-sense perspective. You are supported by expert discipline engineers for detailed technical knowledge, who you give clear directions regarding their tasks and the related subproject scope
• You take a leading role in challenging electrical design concepts, ensuring the choice of the best available technology.
• You ensure integration and validate brownfield adaptations always ensuring the preservation of existing operations.
• You guide reviews and approvals for documents, drawings and requests for change.
• Proactively escalate project governance issues that are creating a barrier to project delivery in a timely manner towards the lead project management team and make recommendations for how they can be realigned with the plan.
• Drive continuous process improvements through the project lifecycle, by using lessons learnt and identifying opportunities.
• Analyse improvement areas identified via maturity assessment, evaluate use cases & prioritize and propose actions.
• You enable periodic internal reviews and coordination with stakeholders to address scope gaps and follow-through resolution towards project completion.
• Proactively escalate project governance issues that are creating a barrier to project delivery in a timely manner towards the lead project management team and make recommendations for how they can be realigned with the plan.
• Drive continuous process improvements through the project lifecycle, by using lessons learnt and identifying opportunities.
• Analyse improvement areas identified via maturity assessment, evaluate use cases & prioritize and propose actions.

You will support and report to the Steel Shop project delivery lead of the GP project.

Profile description

Technical skills

• Expertise in Project Management
• Goal oriented, results driven, takes initiative, leadership and attention to detail
• Effective communicator, with ability to proactively deal with senior executives and stakeholders.
• Proven people management skills

Job experience / other skills

• +10 years’ experience as a Project Engineer in a similar role. Responsibilities in this position can be expanded based on experience and expertise
• A broad technical background is needed to understand and navigate the entire scope. Experience in any of these areas would be a plus.
  • Electro-mechanical installations
  • 6-30 kV networks, switchgears and transformers
  • Low voltage distribution
  • Instrumentation and control
  • Level 1 and 2 automations

Courses

• Master/Bachelor degree in engineering or equivalent professional technical education, with Electrical, instrumentation or automation background

Language skills

• Project language is English
• Knowledge of the Dutch language is a prerequisite