Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands Type: 0.6–0.8 FTE

At CelSian, we are the partner for future-proof glass. From our headquarters in Eindhoven and our US subsidiary, we work with leading glass manufacturers worldwide on modeling, lab research, and innovation projects. To strengthen our organization and manage expected further growth, we are looking for a financial project controller as part of our new project management office who brings structure, transparency, and insight into our financial processes and projects. With over 30 employees, we work on 120-150 projects per year for our customers around the world.

What you will do

Financial management

• Improve and maintain internal control framework.
• Coordinate intercompany allocations and align NL and US administration.
• Validate work-in-progress, provisions, and project margins.
• Support monthly closings and prepare management reports and dashboards (PowerBI).
• Advise on financial strategy, risks and performance benchmarks.
• Prepare yearly budget along with operations and sales.
• Control all bookings and costs on projects.

Project management

• Track progress of running projects (weekly WIP reporting).
• Monitor booked hours, budgets, and direct/indirect ratios; flag and follow up on deviations.
• Join project leader meetings to review progress, invoicing, and risks.
• Open and close projects, and manage our license projects.
• Identify and implement improvements in project processes.

Teamwork

• Foster collaboration between the various disciplines, like sales, administration and project engineers, across our different locations.
• Establish a new team with clear accountability for project administration and coordination.

What you bring

• A bachelor’s degree in business, management, or finance. Further degrees or certifications in project management (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2) are a plus.
• 5–8 years of experience in financial controlling or audit.
• Experience with multi-entity setups and intercompany transactions.
• Hands-on with ERP/finance systems (AFAS preferred) and QuickBooks.
• Proficiency in MS Office, especially Excel and PowerBI.
• Strong communicator, comfortable working with both commercial, financial and technical colleagues.
• Fluent in English.

CelSian offers

• An equal opportunity place to work, and with our global customer base, we’re proud to celebrate differences between our team members and affiliated partners.
• Intellectual, inspiring work environment, ambitious team.
• Excellent benefits including 32 holidays and a top-notch pension arrangement.
• All-you-can-eat-lunch.

Curious to learn more?

If you would like to know more about this role, or wish to apply directly, please send your motivation and CV to infodesk@celsian.com. You can also call Harmen Kielstra at +31 6 4622 5667 for more information.

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As an AI Software Engineer at CelSian, we expect you to develop AI models and enhance our different software packages with AI techniques. We have different packages that need to be maintained and updated to suit the needs of our customers and to be ready for the next wave in Artificial Intelligence. We expect you to plan and execute this work closely with our other developers and the CFD modeling group.

Key tasks:

• Build and test AI modules for our existing software packages.
• Analyze data, statistics, and algorithms.
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, development, and proposed solutions.
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.
• Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Make recommendations in policies and procedures to improve process control solutions for our customers.
• Stay up to date about the latest trends and regulations in AI.

Requirements:

• Passion for technology.
• Solid background in AI (minimum 5 years of work experience).
• In-depth knowledge about programming languages and tools, such as Python / Fortran / C++ and Mercurial/git, Jenkins, Visual Studio, and Cuda.
• Willingness to develop yourself in this exciting and upcoming field.
• Fluent in English.
• Team player.
• Can-do mentality (you thrive on solving complex problems and putting ideas to work).

CelSian offers:

• An equal opportunity place to work, and with our global customer base, we’re proud to celebrate differences between our team members and affiliated partners.
• Intellectual, inspiring work environment, ambitious team.
• Excellent benefits including 32 holidays and a top-notch pension arrangement.
• All-you-can-eat-lunch.

Curious to learn more?

Please send your CV and motivation to harmen.kielstra@celsian.com or call Harmen Kielstra for more information (+31 40 249 0102).

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As trainer at our Academy you are responsible for running open enrolment and customer dedicated training programs. We are experts in glass melting and support the global glass industry with a number of trainings for furnace operators up to senior R&D and engineering teams. Our training offering comprises a mix of E-learning, online simulators, case studies as well as classical courses. We have developed a network of passionate and experienced glass experts and are continuously looking for part-time glass experts to further support and extend our training offer worldwide.

Key tasks

• Organize and run glass trainings in your region
• Acquisition of training participants
• Sell company dedicated trainings
• Analyse and report participant feed back

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in glass industry (R&D, engineering, operations)
• Passion for glass manufacturing
• Next to English, fluent in one of these languages: Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Portugese, Spanish, Italian or German
• Strong communication skills (as trainer and towards global training network)

CelSian offers

• An equal opportunity place to work, and with our global customer base we’re proud to celebrate differences between our team members and affiliated partners
• International network of glass experts
• An intellectual inspiring work environment and ambitious team

Curious to learn more?

Please send your CV and motivation to infodesk@celsian.nl or call Harmen Kielstra for more information (+31 40 249 0102).

As a glass technologist in CelSian you act as scientific expert in glass melting processes, for our clients around the world as well as for CelSian colleagues. You lead and support multiple technical projects with key clients, and also act as a trainer for our Academy. 

Key responsibilities

• Act as a global thought leader in specific domain of glass melting processes (‘claim’ the area)
• Support CelSian Academy as trainer
• Support our customers and CelSian team with solving technological challenges
• Represent CelSian at (academic) conferences with remarkable contributions
• Initiate ideas for new projects, and develop these ideas into customer supported projects
• Connect, support and collaborate with multiple academic institutes on material and glass science (suggest PhD, Post-Doc programs, lecturing etc) 

Requirements

• Master in process engineering, physics or chemical engineering
• Passion to drive environmental friendly solutions
• Fluent in English and one more language (ideally Chinese, French, German, Italian or Spanish)
• Extensive experience in glass industry (or other energy intensive manufacturing)
• Team player, strong in coaching /teaching and project management
• Can-do mentality (you thrive when putting ideas to work) 

CelSian offers

• An equal opportunity place to work, and with our global customer base we’re proud to celebrate differences between our team members and affiliated partners 
• Intellectual inspiring work environment
• Excellent benefits including 32 holidays, pension plan and profitshare cash/stockplan
• All-you-can-eat-lunch

Curious to learn more?

Please send your CV and motivation to infodesk@celsian.nl or call Harmen Kielstra for more information (+31 6 4622 5667).

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