Lead Project Engineer

You are the engineer who owns customer success hands-on: you lead the development projects, you are the face to the customer, and together with an additional tech person you are deep in the use cases yourself, building the models. You like solving problems and selling through substance: you take over from the first customers calling their problem apart with them and solving them. Be the engineering face to the customer from the first calls on: take apart their decision problem live, pre-sales, and turn it into a first mini model Scope and lead the Proof of Value and the development project end-to-end; own the result, not just the planning and organization. Build the optimization models yourself together with our research engineers: large, real, decision-grade models on the customer's data and your's and their knowledge. Translate messy industrial reality (capacity, capital, lead times, delivery reliability, throughput) into a clean optimization problem and back into a decision the customer can act on. Work hand in hand with Dana in Sales: where she opens the door, you carry the substance, help close, and then deliver. Help sharpen the delivery playbook: what makes a PoV convert, what a model trusted, what makes a Champion sell it

A technical analytical foundation by education: 'Economic engineer', 'Economic Informatics', mechanical or industrial engineering, mathematics, physics, Operations Research, or similar. Non-negotiable, you sell and deliver at eye level with engineers, head of operations and controlling, in the COO and CFO Office. You are strong in data understanding and outstanding in modelling: you build and modelling (e.g large, complex models in Excel in prior consultancy project ) and enjoy it Minimum of 3 years experience in the industry and consulting You have run many projects in parallel, and the more there are, the more obsessed you get with structure and efficiency, so that you can run 10+ clients without dropping a ball or loosing your mind. You like selling. Although you are not responsible for cold outbound, you can run the early calls with customers yourself, scope their problem on the spot, and win them into development partnerships. You read a P&L, talk OEE and inventory vs. service level with a plant manager, and keep the customer accommodating while you deliver. German at C1 or higher, full working English. Ideally Cologne-based, or willing to relocate / work hybrid; Munich or Stuttgart area or else. Open to find a way if we fit.

Direct to line the founders; you shape how we deliver and sell, side by side with Dana and Erik. Skin in the game: competitive base salary and equity (VSOP). Sports membership fully covered, we believe in good health when working hard.