Project Manager

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Position overview:

Provides project management services for capital and expense projects as directed.  Project Manager is responsible for leading a team of professionals in completing projects by a set deadline to uphold business initiatives.  Duties include setting, dividing up and tracking the budget for different project aspects, ensuring equipment and service orders are placed that support overall project costs and schedules, hiring freelance professionals and selecting project team members from internal departments, plus setting and adjusting project schedules to adhere to deadlines.

Key responsibilities include:

• Ensures all personnel involved in a project, to include but limited to project team, plant personnel and contractors are aware of and adhere to all safety rules and regulations.
• Directs activities involved with the planning and implementation of assigned projects of all types.
• Coordinates feasibility and pre-AFE planning studies.  Gathers, analyses, organizes and presents information from the customer, manufacturing, engineering, and all other appropriate business areas.
• Writes AFE’s and requisitions with detailed work scopes, accurate cost estimates, and clear, thorough communication of the project goals and justification.
• Manages projects to minimize the cost required to achieve approved project objectives, effectively using Ball’s project accounting systems.  Keeps the project cost control updated by continuous reforecasting.
• Establishes and monitors project schedules; makes use of the critical path approach to scheduling; revises project schedules as required to maintain project goals, develop responsibility plans and start-up production plans.
• Keeps management and project team informed of project status, including progress, problems, cost, and schedule through regularly published project status reports.
• Effectively builds and leads all disciplines of project teams, incorporating engineering, customer, and other department’s personnel.
• Establishes engineering documentation, change order and work order controls to ensure project design and construction is in accordance with appropriate standards and meets the approved requirements for the project.

What are we looking for?

• Engineering degree.
• Minimum of 4 years job-related experience in project management.
• Financial acumen.
• Industry knowledge associated with high-speed / automated production.
• Familiarity with general construction practices.
• Risk management and mitigation.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; leads group discussions; excellent presentation skills.
• Fluent English and Hungarian.

Work Environment: This role requires full on-site presence at our Mako plant.​ 
Hiring Range: 13125000 – 17500000 HUF gross per year. The final salary will be determined based on the candidate’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and market benchmarks. Depending on these factors, the actual offer may fall above or below the posted range.​
Incentive Plan: This position is eligible to participate in Ball’s annual incentive compensation program.​
Comprehensive Benefits Package: Private health insurance, life insurance, retirement program, company car, employee assistance program, PTO and SZEP card.

Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles solutions that enable our customers to contribute to a better world. 
Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference. 
Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.

No agencies please.

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