Team Lead Project Engineer Controls

FORTNA partners with the world’s leading brands to transform omnichannel and parcel distribution operations. Known world-wide for enabling companies to keep pace with digital disruption and growth objectives, we design and deliver solutions, powered by intelligent software, to optimize fast, accurate and cost-effective order fulfillment and last mile delivery. Our people, innovative approach and proprietary algorithms and tools ensure optimal operations design and material and information flow. We deliver exceptional value every day to our customers with comprehensive services and products including network strategy, distribution center operational design and implementation, material handling automated equipment, robotics and a comprehensive suite of lifecycle services.

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Team Lead Project Engineer Controls

Are you an engineer with ambition now and ready for the next step? Do you want to develop yourself further in project management, engineering, communication and leadership? At FORTNA you can make the step to Team Lead Project Engineer Controls! FORTNA is a Material Handling System integrator that works with the most modern techniques. You will be part of the Lifecycle Performance Services (LPS) team. A versatile role in which you are responsible for a wide range of activities.

You want to grow further in your field and take the lead in managing and organizing your team. Do you recognize yourself in this?

What are you going to do?

Responsible for leading a team and day-to-day operations, developing and implementing an operational plan and objectives for the assigned operational team, coordinates and motivates the team, stakeholders and reports on the progress of the team in line with the department plan, so that the team is able to achieve (team) objectives.

• Managing others

Giving guidance and direction to employees and clearly allocating responsibilities

• Team leadership

Giving guidance and direction to teams/groups by creating the right preconditions and by promoting cooperation, commitment and team spirit.

• Planning and organizing

Structure the work to be carried out, aimed at efficiently dealing with available time, resources and people, now and in the future.

• Performance oriented

Constantly striving for realization of results and being focused on continuous improvement.

As a Team lead Project Engineer Controls, you will be part of a team of 15 colleagues. You will be responsible for the development, cost estimation, engineering, and implementation of maintenance and modification projects. You will lead projects from both a technical and organizational perspective—starting from the sales phase through to the realization phase at the customer’s site. Depending on the scope, you may also be responsible for the commissioning of control systems.

The team currently consists of colleagues with experience in control engineering, commissioning, mechanical engineering, project and maintenance management. It’s a diverse team, all working together with the same positive drive to make FORTNA better every day and to support all stakeholders as effectively as possible.

Your main tasks include:

• Policies and processes

Contributes to the development and implementation of the individual/team/departmental policy in line with the vision and mission of the organization.

Oversees team processes, initiates, coordinates and collaborates on (improvement) proposals within their own focus to and ensures optimization and alignment with the department goals.

• Coordination

Coordinates the overall (project, resource) planning into an operational planning for their own team within given scope and guidelines in cooperation with stakeholders to enable and steer on the achievement of team objectives and managing of the workload.

Focuses on activities and results of the individual, team, related projects, processes and systems and adjusts where necessary to ensure proper functioning of the team and the team members.

Monitors the performance of the team, quality of the work and team cooperation and act as a link between the different teams / departments to align the team with the organization/business unit.

Cooperates with the team and performs operational and tactical work, to oversee the achieveme