Section Manager for consulting engineering company

We are looking for a Section Manager to lead our project manager team within industrial construction. At AFRY, we advise on all facets of construction – from idea to delivery. Across all projects, our ambition is to promote both sustainability and digitalization. As our new Section Manager, you will play a crucial role in leading and developing the team. You will be responsible for approximately 20 employees and be part of the management team in Industrial Building. Your tasks will include developing, hiring, and leading the team, providing professional sparring, finding solutions to technical challenges, ensuring customer satisfaction, promoting sustainable solutions, and collaborating with key stakeholders.

Must Have

• Experience with leadership, consulting, and project management
• Ambition to lead and develop a well-functioning team
• Strong understanding of the value of good personnel management
• Ability to bring your own experience into play through sparring and employee development
• Sales and budget responsibility
• Development, recruitment, and leadership, including professional sparring with the team
• Finding solutions to technical challenges, creating results, ensuring customer satisfaction, and promoting sustainable solutions
• Leading a highly qualified team of specialists
• Establishing contact with potential customers and contributing to project sales based on your own market profile
• Generally helping to ensure visibility in the market
• Collaborating with key stakeholders including the executive board and the various business units in AFRY
• Education as an engineer, architect, construction manager or equivalent
• Experience with industrial construction
• Experience with project management in a consulting engineering company
• Desire for and experience with personnel management in a knowledge-based company, where employee competence development is highly valued
• Ability to maintain an overview of resources and competencies and create structure for yourself and others
• Flair for building and nurturing customer relationships

Perks & Benefits

• Varied and diverse tasks and projects for large and well-known private and public clients
• Internal development opportunities in one of the country's leading engineering companies
• A large interdisciplinary network of competent colleagues to spar with
• A good pension scheme and secure health insurance
• Family-friendly and flexible conditions
• A healthy canteen arrangement
• Active staff associations and social events

Company Description

AFRY is an international engineering, design, and consulting company with 18,000 dedicated experts in infrastructure, industry, energy, and digitalization. In Denmark, we are approximately 850 colleagues working with construction, transport, process industry, Life Science industry, automation, energy, and architecture.

Job Description

Do you want to help drive and develop the industrial buildings of the future? Do you have experience with leadership, consulting, and project management – and do you want to lead a team of highly specialized project managers? Then you might be the Section Manager we are looking for.

We are looking for a Section Manager to lead our project manager team within industrial construction. At AFRY, we advise on all facets of construction – from idea to delivery. Across all projects, our ambition is to promote both sustainability and digitalization. As our new Section Manager, you will play a crucial role in leading and developing the team.

”Our employees are our most important asset, and we prioritize both well-being and professional development highly. Therefore, it is crucial that you have a strong understanding of the value of good personnel management and an ambition to lead and develop a well-functioning team.” - says Head of Project Execution Peter Christensen.

About the tasks

There will be a strong focus on professional leadership in this role. You must therefore be able to bring your own experience into play – both through sparring with the team, in the development of your employees, and in relation to your sales and budget responsibility.

You will be responsible for the approximately 20 employees currently in the team and will be part of the management team in Industrial Building. On a daily basis, you will report to Head of Project Execution, Peter Christensen. Your permanent workplace will be at our office in Aarhus, Herning, or Herlev – depending on your own location. You must be prepared for travel activity between our offices and prioritize present leadership.

In your daily work, you will, among other things, work with:

• development, recruitment, and leadership, including professional sparring with the team.
• finding solutions to technical challenges, creating results, ensuring customer satisfaction, and promoting sustainable solutions
• leading a highly qualified team of specialists
• based on your own market profile, establishing contact with potential customers and contributing to the sale of projects and generally helping to ensure visibility in the market
• collaborating with key stakeholders including the executive board and the various business units in AFRY

Qualifications

We imagine that you will fit well into the job if you:

• have an education as an engineer, architect, construction manager or equivalent, as well as experience with industrial construction
• have experience with project management in a consulting engineering company
• have a desire for and experience with personnel management in a knowledge-based company, where employee competence development is highly valued.
• are able to maintain an overview of resources and competencies and create structure for yourself and others
• have a flair for building and nurturing customer relationships.

Further information

About AFRY

We are one of the largest engineering houses in the Nordics and set the framework for a good workplace where there is time to develop your professionalism through projects from A-Z. We collaborate across disciplines and national borders, giving you ample opportunity to accelerate your career.

Sparring, feedback, and teamwork are keywords in our daily work, where digitalization and sustainability are strategic benchmarks.

Among other benefits, we can mention:

• varied and diverse tasks and projects for large and well-known private and public clients
• internal development opportunities in one of the country's leading engineering companies
• a large interdisciplinary network of competent colleagues to spar with
• a good pension scheme and secure health insurance
• family-friendly and flexible conditions
• a healthy canteen arrangement
• active staff associations and social events.

Interested?

We only need your CV, but to protect your personal data, you cannot send it directly to us by email. Instead, you must use the link on this page, which also ensures that your CV ends up in the right place and is treated confidentially.

Send your CV to us as soon as possible; we will continuously invite candidates for interviews and stop the process when the right colleague is hired.

Contact

If you have questions about the position or about AFRY as a workplace, you are welcome to contact:

Peter Christensen by phone: +4524634013

Head of Project Execution.

At AFRY, we engineer change in everything we do. Change happens when brave ideas come together. When we collaborate, innovate technology, and embrace challenging points of view. That’s how we're making future. We are actively looking for qualified candidates to join our inclusive and diverse teams across the globe. Join us in accelerating the transition towards a sustainable future.