Project Specialist

For our Digital Transformation Projects

Are you ready for new challenges in an international and innovation-driven environment where you can make a difference? Apply and join our team, be curious, learn, grow, and develop your career together with us. We promise: you are in for a special ride

The location of the role is in: Contagem

About the job

We are looking for a Project Specialist for our Digital Transformation department to support our team in leading transformational projects and project teams across regions and business functions. You will be supporting in driving the project's lifecycle from planning, and implementation to closure. This can include the preparation of relevant project documentation (timeline, budget, resource planning...) as well as the follow-up on the project progress with the project teams in individual meetings as well as project update calls. You will be working in a diverse, dynamic and performance-driven team with a good team spirit and humor. As a Project Specialist in our team, you will build up your own project management experience, gain a broad network across functions within our company and become acquainted with RHI Magnesita's business and the refractory industry.

In addition, your tasks will include

• Own and run the daily and weekly delivery rhythm: agendas, actions, dependencies, follow-ups, and decision tracking.
• Actively chase owners, clarify ambiguities, and close gaps — no passive waiting.
• Coordinate activities across Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations, and HR interfaces (as needed), across multiple geographies.
• Escalate blockers early and decisively; propose concrete recovery actions.
• Track delivery against scope, timeline, cost, benefits, and quality using clear, practical KPIs.
• Ensure the process has: Clear acceptance criteria, Named actions owners,  validators and approvers, Defined evidence expectations and tracking
• Actively follow up on validations, chase evidence, and prevent backlog accumulation.
• Maintain a clean flow from executed → validated → signed off → closed, calling out risks immediately when this breaks.
• Coordinate readiness activities hands-on across the Americas.
• Track cross-system and business dependencies (finance close, payroll, inventory, critical operations).
• Ensure readiness decisions are made based on facts, criteria, and scenarios — not optimism.
• Run RAID actively: update, challenge, escalate, follow-up mitigation actions and close.
• Lead defect and issue triage sessions; drive owners to resolution and retest.
• Engage senior stakeholders directly to unblock decisions, not just inform them.
• Stay close to data readiness topics that threaten execution.
• Surface data risks early and help coordinate fast resolution.

About You

You are a strong communicator with a collaborative attitude. With your great enthusiasm and creative mindset, you bring new ideas to the table, not only as an individual but also together with your colleagues. You work well in cross-functional teams and are not afraid to take responsibility and make decisions. With your hands-on mentality, structured approach and analytical skills, you proactively seek to improve the status quo. You see change as something positive, can adapt quickly and you like to courageously help shaping the future of RHI Magnesita.You are not shying away from proactively reaching out to internal and external project members and of being in the "front row", facilitating meetings and pushing for progress and results.

What we expect from you in terms of

Education

• A bachelor's degree in business management/administration, IT, finance or similar
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

Languages

• English – Proficient/Fluent
• Any other language is considered as an asset

Work Experience

• Demonstrated ability to operate in the detail while keeping the big picture.
• Strong hands-on experience working with IT teams, different suppliers and system integrators.

Why you should work for RHI Magnesita

You will perform in a customer focused environment. We live innovation and appreciate an open and pragmatic way of working. From our leaders we expect to drive our further transformation, to engage our people and to give direction. RHI Magnesita is a company where you can be yourself and where not only your resume and experience, but also your personality counts. We aim for global consistency in compensation policies, but also consider local common practices. RHI Magnesita is committed to support its employees through various means to enable the best possible performance.

We offer

Salary and benefits are aligned with market trends for companies of our size and industry, including health insurance, bonus, and meal card. Our benefits package also focuses on well-being and work–life balance, such as extended maternity and paternity leave, emotional support programs, Wellhub, among others.

Sounds like you?

At RHI Magnesita everyone is welcome and encouraged to apply. We evaluate applications based on required qualifications and regardless of gender identity, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status. At RHI Magnesita we appreciate the value of diverse teams.

About RHI Magnesita

We are the acknowledged technology leader in the refractory industry. Our company is defined by people. We are committed to diversity and know that multiple approaches, perspectives and backgrounds fuel creativity and innovation. It is our aspiration to build a workplace culture where everyone feels valued, engages, and can enjoy a truly inclusive environment and the diverse voices of our employees are heard. We foster a collaborative culture that cherishes ideas and determination to add value for our customers. Our leadership style encourages open-mindedness, reliability, pragmatism, and innovation.

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