Senior Project Manager, Livin Farms
Recyling food waste with insects
Open for applications
Recyling food waste with insects
1-20 employees
Open for applications
1-20 employees
Company mission
Feed the world while saving the planet.
Role
Who you are
- You have a completed diploma or master's degree in process engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry or similar areas
- You have solid experience in the development, planning and commissioning of industrial plants in a project management role
- You can work with multiple discipline projects and teams and an advanced level of project management and supervision skills
- You enjoy working in a team and with people from different disciplines
- Fluent level of English and German language skills is mandatory
What the job involves
- The Senior Project Manager (Anlagenbau) oversees and coordinates all technical and engineering aspects of our factory projects
- This role involves planning, scheduling, forecasting, and managing every technical task to ensure accuracy, optimal resource allocation, and high quality throughout the project lifecycle, consistently delivering results on time
- Process engineering planning and concept development for industrial plants
- Prepare, schedule, coordinate and monitor the assigned projects
- Monitor compliance with applicable practices, performance standards and specifications
- Perform overall quality control of the work related to the assigned project/s (budget, schedule, plans, contractors/project members performance) and report regularly on project status
- Review engineering deliverables and initiate appropriate corrective actions
- Interact daily with the clients (internal/external) to interpret their needs and requirements and represent them in the field
- Participation in assembly monitoring and plant commissioning
- Create safety considerations and risk analyses
- Execute and coordinate multidisciplinary feasibility studies
- Manage coordination and negotiations with suppliers and customers
Our take
Climate change continues to fuel a number of food shortages and insect-based proteins are therefore being increasingly considered an alternative food service. Enter LIVIN Farms, a startup that develops products and technologies for the next generation of agriculture. Its core product - Hive PRO Insect Factory - is a turn-key solution for the food, feed and recycling industries.
The Hive Pro is an industrialised system with multiple, stacked trays. It feeds baby larvae with food waste, uses robotic arms to move the trays and helps to rear the insects to ultimately turn them into powder. The other trays are used as fertilizer. This is all part of an effort to improve the up-cycling of organic waste.
The company has already garnered interest from a variety of investors and secured a round of series A funding. It is primed to continue to do so as it grows with the intention of becoming a major player in this industry. It is perhaps unsurprising given that LIVIN Farms has essentially found a way to turn food waste back into food.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2022
$5.8m
SERIES A
May 2020
$2.9m
GRANT
Total funding: $8.7m
Company HQ
Erdberg, Vienna, Vienna
Leadership
Katharina Unger
(Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Design Intern for Michael Young and as a Freelance Designer for Polka Products.
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