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AFRY

Engineering, design, and advisory for sustainability.

Department Head - Engineering Management

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMainz, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A completed university degree in Supply Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Building Automation, Energy Engineering, or a comparable field.
  • At least 7–10 years of professional experience planning technically demanding industrial or life-science facilities.
  • Experience providing technical or disciplinary leadership for employees and project teams.
  • Experience establishing, leading, and strategically developing a department.
  • Experience in multidisciplinary engineering projects and collaboration with external planning partners.
  • Sound knowledge in at least one of technical building equipment, building automation, or electrical engineering, and a good understanding of the interfaces among these disciplines.
  • Experience coordinating complex engineering projects, quality assurance, and technical evaluation of planning and execution documents.
  • German proficiency at C2 level, spoken and written, and very good English skills.
  • Willingness to travel for project-related needs.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills and interest in developing teams and employees.
  • Structured, solution-oriented, entrepreneurial work style and high quality standards.
  • Confidence interacting with customers, project partners, and internal stakeholders, and ability to steer and develop interdisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

  • Build, lead, and develop the Engineering Management department, including engineering employees and discipline leads for technical building equipment, building automation, and electrical engineering.
  • Plan employee and external specialist capacity and assignments, and develop professional expertise.
  • Define department-wide engineering standards, conduct design reviews, and manage interfaces with the Process Engineering and Project Management departments.
  • Coordinate and review cross-disciplinary concepts, planning documents, and specifications in close collaboration with specialists in technical building equipment, HVAC, building automation, and electrical engineering.
  • Ensure integration of building automation, process systems, clean utilities, cleanrooms, and overarching technical infrastructure.
  • Evaluate system architectures, loads, redundancy, availability, energy efficiency, and maintainability in light of project-specific GMP requirements.
  • Coordinate engineering resources, deliverables, technical risks, and changes with Project Management, and support project leads with effort, budget, and schedule planning.
  • Coordinate technical matters with clients, specialist planners, suppliers, and execution partners from concept and detailed planning through commissioning.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of GMP-regulated environments, particularly controlled production environments and technical infrastructure.

About the Company

AFRY

Engineering, design, and advisory for sustainability.

AFRY provides engineering, design, and advisory services across infrastructure, energy, and industry to advance sustainable development. It assembles multidisciplinary teams to offer end-to-end support, including planning, design, engineering, feasibility studies, and long-term advisory and implementation. It differentiates itself with a global footprint and an integrated, full-lifecycle offering that covers from concept to operation, demonstrated by large-scale projects like floating solar PV. Its goal is to accelerate the transition to a sustainable society through value-driven, long-term partnerships with clients.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Solna kommun, Sweden
Founded
1895

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