Project Coordinator (Location: Nairobi)

Functional Area: Home Comfort.

Corporate success at Bosch is determined by innovation capability and an edge in know-how. Accept with us the challenge of new tasks by your willingness to permanently learn something new.

Robert Bosch East Africa is a growing business in the Bosch Group located in Nairobi, Kenya. We operate in the business divisions Mobility Aftermarket, Power Tools and Home Comfort.

At Bosch, we shape the future by inventing high-quality technologies and services that spark enthusiasm and enrich people’s lives.

Our promise to our associates is rock-solid: we grow together, we enjoy our work, and we inspire each other.

Join in and feel the difference.

Responsibilities:

• Technical support relative to steam boilers;
• Provide technical support to the sales team during the tendering phase;
• Develop the the design phase of the project.
• Steam pipework
• Gathering technical information with sales representatives to clarify projects;
• Assist African sales teams with project delivery;
• Ensuring that client requirements are fully realized;
• Maintain regular customer contact to establish requirements and ensure a high standard of customer service is delivered at all times;
• Coordinate with boiler organization with regards appropriate selection of equipment, ancillaries, logistics and service support;
• Coordinate with African notified bodies, ensuring that all equipment is supplied in accordance with African legislation;
• Manage ongoing projects via site visits, ensuring that client requests are met in a timely manner (on a rare basis);
• Consult external service providers (carriers, crane operators, inspection bodies, pipe fitters, etc.);
• Follow the project delivery on sites & remotely;
• Support service engineers with requests of amendments/extra resource & equipment.

Skills, Knowledge and Competencies

• Degree in mechanical engineering or similar;
• Experience within the steam boiler industry;
• Technical knowledge of steam boilers and their relevant legislative requirements;
• Ability to read P & ID as well as Electrical schematic;
• Experience with pipework, housework & associated ancillaries;
• Ability to manage projects;
• Knowledge of Windows Office, Excel and appropriate Microsoft applications and AutoCAD or SolidWorks.

Dimensions:

• Meet management expectations on sales operations.
• Meet organization (HC) and customer expectations for high quality services.

Major Challenges:

• Working within diverse and complex market.
• Driving high performance from the organization.
• Customer and internal stakeholder inconsistencies.