Teams at Kion Group AG

Leads project engineering teams by coaching employees, managing staffing and utilization, overseeing project quality, schedules, costs, budgets, forecasts, and risks. Participates in technical sales reviews, project turnovers, process improvement, customer engagement, recruiting, and onboarding. Requires engineering leadership experience, material handling or logistics automation expertise, strong communication and problem-solving skills, and approximately 10% travel.

Oversee complex material-handling projects, managing scope, schedule, budget, risks, staffing, profitability, invoicing, and project teams. Develop detailed engineering, installation, and integration schedules; coordinate internal and external stakeholders; support pre-sales solution development; validate customer business cases; and prepare proposals, estimates, and high-level schedules. Apply project management and systems engineering principles while leading teams and facilitating execution.

Designs sophisticated material-handling and automation systems from concept through installation and commissioning. Responsibilities include material specification, layout and drawing preparation, technical problem-solving, productivity and cost improvements, customer collaboration, training, knowledge transfer, and project engineering. The engineer will lead multiple small or mid-sized projects, manage mechanical engineering schedules and budgets, delegate effectively, and travel to customer or Dematic locations up to 25% of the time.