Special Projects Project Leader

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Date: Oct 19, 2026

Contract location: Canton, MI, US, 48187

Company: ANDRITZ AG

Every day, ANDRITZ continues to deliver successful innovative solutions to our customers globally. Why are we so successful? Because we are passionate and love what we do! We are at the forefront of future engineering technologies, with solutions that ensure the success of our clients in key industries that are shaping the future of the world we live in.

Brief Description

This role serves as the primary project contact with the customer and will coordinate Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Logistics, Field Service, Accounting, suppliers, subcontractors, and affiliates.

The Project Manager establishes and maintains the approved scope, schedule, budget, cost forecast, risk and opportunity register, change-management process, and project documentation. The role proactively identifies and escalates risks to customer commitments, project margin, cash flow, quality, safety, and contractual performance, and drives actions through resolution.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in the review of project RFQ’s and provide input to project estimating as required.
• Attend project “kick off” meetings and ensure handover of all information from Sales to project management.
• Distribute customer’s specifications, standards, buy-off protocols, and other supporting documentation to team members.
• Create and maintain project timing plan in MS project.
• Establish project budget plan and manage project expenditure within agreed item values.
• Report budget and timing, actual and forecast to complete, and identify any areas of risk in a timely manner and elevate potential margin erosion, unapproved scope, schedule exposure, overdue customer decisions, and contractual risk.
• Define mitigation actions, owners, and target dates, and elevate material risks through the applicable management process.
• In coordination with Sales, Engineering, Legal, and Finance, identify scope changes, develop the technical and commercial basis for change requests, lead negotiations with the customer, obtain required internal approvals, and ensure authorized changes are reflected in the applicable purchase orders and project baseline.
• Ensure change requests are documented, commercially evaluated, approved, and incorporated into the customer purchase order before execution whenever practicable.
• With input from engineering write specifications for third party services or scope of supply.
• Review supplier quotations against specification and make recommendations for selection
• Arrange and manage; project review meetings, buy-off meetings, site visits and other meetings with the project team, customers, suppliers and affiliates.
• Take meeting minutes, create open issues lists and follow up on actions to get resolution.
• Act as the single point of communication between the customer and the project team.
• Distribute all current or relevant information to interested parties and maintain issue control.
• Provide manpower plan and regular updates to SIC field service coordinator and coordinate with affiliates and sub-contractors for additional manpower as required.
• Coordinate site set up, delivery and start of installation with customer, Schuler site manager and logistics dept.
• Ensure project activities are planned and executed in compliance with applicable EHS and company requirements, while coordinating with Site Management and the customer to address safety, quality, site-access, installation-readiness, nonconformity, and customer complaint issues through resolution.
• Attend site regularly to monitor progress and provide support to Schuler site manager, following up on any open issues as required.
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