Service & Sales
Project Engineer
Buhler Group in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is looking for a passionate Project Engineer to support customers with project execution, installation, commissioning, maintenance, and optimization of Bühler machines and systems. This role is responsible for coordinating projects from handover through completion, ensuring timely and cost-effective execution while managing technical requirements, subcontractors, customer expectations, documentation, and project risks.
This is where you'll excel
- Take ownership of assigned projects following handover from Sales, Customer Service, or Order Management.
- Review contracts, quotations, technical specifications, scope of supply, commercial conditions, exclusions, responsibilities, and project risks.
- Develop and maintain project execution plans covering engineering, procurement, logistics, installation, commissioning, and handover.
- Define and monitor project milestones, deliverables, timelines, resources, and dependencies.
- Coordinate project activities from order confirmation through customer acceptance and project closure.
- Monitor project progress, costs, schedules, deliveries, and contractual obligations, taking corrective action when required.
- Ensure project deliverables meet contractual requirements, Bühler standards, safety requirements, and customer expectations.
- Coordinate internal and external project meetings and ensure timely follow-up of actions.
- Maintain accurate and complete project documentation.
- Coordinate customers, internal teams, subcontractors, and service providers to ensure smooth project execution.
- Support the selection, qualification, onboarding, and performance management of subcontractors and service providers.
- Prepare and/or review scopes of work and coordinate subcontractor mobilization, including site access, permits, tools, equipment, and resources.
- Support project budgeting, cost control, invoicing, and payment milestone tracking.
- Identify and manage technical, commercial, schedule, quality, and site risks.
- Identify potential service, upgrade, and modernization opportunities based on customer requirements.
These are the skills you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Approximately 3–5 years of experience in project engineering, service projects, installation, commissioning, maintenance, or industrial project execution.
- Experience coordinating subcontractors and site contractors.
- Experience managing project schedules, milestones, costs, deliveries, and contractual requirements.
- Experience in industrial equipment, food processing, grain handling, milling, feed, consumer foods, manufacturing, or a related industry is an advantage.
- Experience with service contracts or preventive-maintenance agreements is an advantage.
- Ability to read and interpret mechanical drawings, layouts, P&IDs, technical specifications, and equipment documentation.
- Understanding of installation, commissioning, maintenance, and industrial service processes.
- Basic knowledge of project budgeting, cost control, invoicing, and payment milestones.
- Knowledge of site safety requirements, risk assessments, method statements, and permit-to-work systems.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and project-scheduling tools; familiarity with ERP, CRM, and project-management systems is an advantage.
- Fluency in Arabic and English, both written and spoken.
- Project management training or certification is an advantage.
- Strong project planning and execution skills.
- Effective coordination and stakeholder management.
- Customer-focused mindset with strong communication skills.
- Analytical and problem-solving ability.
These are the benefits you'll enjoy!
Career and personal development
Career and personal development
We deliver a broad spectrum of learning opportunities through videos, e-learnings, classroom trainings, and webinars that offer training in formats that are short, relevant, engaging, personalized, and mobile.
Open communication culture
Open communication culture
Benefit from an open communication culture that promotes transparency and exchange!
Great and dynamic work environment
Great and dynamic work environment
Work in a great and dynamic environment that fosters growth and innovation.
Cross-cultural working environment
Cross-cultural working environment
The key to our success is our diverse workforce from at least 100 nationalities as well as our inclusive culture.
Family-owned business culture
Family-owned business culture
We have more than 160 years of company history. This means that we are a company that thinks and invests for the long-term - in innovations, our employees and our business success.
Diverse and inclusive workplace
Diverse and inclusive workplace
We foster an inclusive culture that values our global diversity. Respect and empathy ensure that everyone feels safe and can perform at their best.
Questions? We are happy to answer them!
Shailja Dubey
Manager - Human Resource
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Two billion people eat food every day that was produced with Bühler equipment. One billion people drive vehicles whose parts were manufactured with our machines.
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