Project Director – Industrial Plant Engineering, Bioeconomy

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🕒 March 27

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traceless materials

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

🌾 Agriculture

💰 Series A on 2023-09

Agriculture • Environmental Technology • Manufacturing

traceless materials is an innovative company that uses agricultural by-products to create traceless®, a new generation of sustainable, plant-based biomaterials. These materials are entirely plastic-free, naturally degradable, and home compostable, reducing both pollution and carbon emissions compared to traditional plastics. Available in granular form, traceless materials can be processed into various end products such as paper coatings, packaging, and adhesives. By offering an eco-friendly alternative to plastics, traceless materials aims to contribute to a circular economy with their innovative approach to biomaterials.

📋 Description

• Leading industrial plant construction projects, including building and utility infrastructure, from planning and permitting through construction to commissioning and handover to operations. • Ensuring that all project objectives regarding schedule, budget, cash-flow, quality, safety and sustainability are met and adequately reported. • Delivering projects in suitable methods like EPCM, EPC or in-house management. • Communication, alignment and reporting with internal and external stakeholders (executive management, specialist departments, service providers, authorities & board members). • Responsibility for risk management, quality assurance and compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. • Establish a clear project structure with defined responsibilities, effective decision-making and scope management processes, and other relevant project workflows, including resource and budget planning. • Foster transparent communication structures and a project culture based on trust, accountability and respect. • Leadership of interdisciplinary teams and close collaboration with the management team. • Champion innovative, sustainable and circular approaches in construction and engineering, including ESG monitoring and reporting. • Strategic planning and scaling – not only operational execution and program management, but also forward-looking capacity planning, evaluation of new sites and shaping of our scaling strategy.

🎯 Requirements

• University degree in mechanical engineering, process engineering, civil engineering, industrial engineering or a comparable qualification. • Extensive experience (5 + years) in managing complex, large-scale industrial facility projects (investment volumes > €50M). • Excellent communication skills towards internal and external stakeholders. • Proven experience in different project delivery methods (e.g. EPC, EPCM). • Strong technical understanding of plant construction, process engineering and production operations – ideally in bioeconomy, chemical industry or similar sectors. • Proven track record of delivering complex projects on time, within budget and at the required quality standards. • Strategic foresight and entrepreneurial mindset. • Familiarity with legal requirements, technical standards and permitting procedures. • Skilled in risk, change and claim management, and working with EPCM and turn-key work package contractors. • Hands-on mentality and a solution-oriented mindset. • Excellent decision-making skills and analytical thinking, with the ability to manage complexity and ambiguity. • Fluency in both German and English, written and spoken.

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful work with real environmental impact • Start-up spirit combined with industrial ambition and plenty of room to shape your role • Personal and professional growth in a fast-scaling company • An inclusive, international team with more than 18 nationalities • Flat hierarchies and a fair, respectful company culture