Project director Health

Do you thrive on collaboration and creating value with customers? Can you lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects to successful delivery? Do you bring project management experience in the health sector? If so, this role could be your next big career step. 

Driven by customers. Powered by innovation.

We are looking for a Project Director to join Buildings and Industry – Healthcare in Norway. You will join our team of multi-disciplinary Project Managers and play a key part in the collective leadership of one of our Buildings and Industry execution units. As Project Director, you will unite our vision - “Together, we shape a sustainable and liveable world”- with our operational goals of customer-centricity, motivated project teams, and operational excellence. You will collaborate closely with clients and stakeholders to create solutions that align with COWI’s Future Now strategy, with a strong emphasis on sustainability, innovation, and digital transformation. You will also connect and collaborate with colleagues across our international engineering design centres to leverage global expertise.

In this role, you will draw on your network to help COWI realise its ambitions in this sector, while taking the lead on some of our most high-profile and impactful projects. Your work will center on key sectors including health, process, pharma, and logistics. We work alongside our customers on some of Norway’s most significant projects in pharma/healthcare. And we are thrilled to contribute to projects like Nye Stavanger Universitetssykehus, Sykehuset Østfold Kalnes and Innlandet Sykehus, Bispebjerg Hospital in Danmark and NLSH Island. Our Buildings and Industry unit also deliver projects in various industries, including pharma, defense and research centers.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Lead and manage large, complex, multi-disciplinary projects across all phases.
• Drive active customer engagement and dialogue, supporting strategic business development and tender management in the health sector.
• Contribute ideas and recommendations to enhance project management practices and HSEQ systems.
• Oversee contract execution while ensuring alignment with project constraints.
• Lead and coordinate all project stakeholders, and actively participate in steering committees.
• Communicate complex technical concepts with clarity and precision.
• Share knowledge and experience with peers to foster continuous improvement.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways, but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you will have:

• A relevant educational background in engineering or another relevant field.
• Extensive multi-disciplinary project management experience in the health sector.
• A proven track record in conducting mega projects.
• Experience in project management standards and methodologies such as PMI, PRINCE2, or IPMA including certifications.

Work location

This role offers flexibility to work from any of our offices in Norway. Travel to project sites is expected.

A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. That is why we say no to fossil-based projects and aspire to have 100% of our revenue come from activities that move our customers towards sustainability.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 8,000 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

Got more questions?

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Vice President, Anne Frafjord, aefd@cowi.com or +47 952 88 600 or Anette Bonsted, aebt@cowi.com or +47 940 14 270.Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Before you apply

All you need to include in your application is your CV – no photo or application letter. At an interview, you can tell us everything we need to know about why you’re interested in joining COWI. As for the photo, we prefer to form our first impression in person rather than from a picture.

Diversity is fundamental to COWI, inclusion is key.

We are committed to creating a respectful and fair work environment where all employees have a sense of belonging and equitable opportunities to thrive and grow. We ensure that our leaders are role models for inclusive leadership by cultivating a culture where diverse perspectives and thoughts are seen as strengths. And we take diversity and inclusion into account in all relevant decisions and processes and when setting teams and fora. We do it because it is part of our values and because it is simply the right thing to do.

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