Project Manager

About the Company:

In Alfa Laval, we are every single day contributing to a more sustainable future for our planet through engineering innovation. Our global team designs and implements the refining, recycling and purifying process that allows our customers to be better themselves. You will find our work in leading applications for water purification, clean energy, food production, waste processing, pharmaceutical development and much more. The people of Alfa Laval enjoy the freedom to pursue ideas and the resources to see those ideas to become reality, in an environment that welcomes drive, courage and diversity. The result is a company where we all can be very proud of what we do. Our core competencies are in the areas of heat transfer separation, and fluid handling. We are dedicated to optimizing the performance of our customers' processes. Our world-class technologies, our systems, equipment, and services must create solutions that help our customers stay ahead. Please feel free to peruse our website www.alfalaval.com

The position / About the Job:

Manage medium to large projects, with small to medium complexity or business impact, in accordance with Alfa Laval’s project methodology to reach desired outcome.

Key Responsibilities:

• Carry out the activity of Project Manager on orders for the replacement of parts or complete exchangers, including Shell and Tube or Air Coolers, and occasionally collaborate with other colleagues in the service department for interventions.
• Prepare the Order Opening document upon receipt of the order, containing main information to be discussed during the order opening meeting with relevant department managers.
• Monitor activities carried out by various departments and interface directly with suppliers to ensure final delivery.
• Monitor Purchase Requests and related Orders to ensure they respect the budget and that deliveries align with the manufacturing plan.
• Prepare Progress Reports on the order's status with illustrations, graphs, and other relevant information for the customer.
• Manage documents, including uploading them to Meridian “Data Warehouse “, issuing and revising based on customer comments.
• Follow up on the progress of projects documents preparation and ensure meeting the agreed deadline.
• Close coordination with the customer to review, finalize and sign the project’s documents.
• Instruct the Administration department to issue invoices to the customers based on project development stage and follow up with the customer on the payments.
• Provide priorities for activities to be carried out by colleagues in the departments related to the execution of the projects.
• Analyze received offers from suppliers for projects and recommend the procurement department for suitable suppliers.
• To select the team members of the assigned projects.
• Responsible for closing the technical and commercial parts of the assigned projects and inform the finance department accordingly.

Background, skills, and experience:

• Mechanical background.
• 8-12 Years of experience in relevant field.
• Advocacy for a strong safety culture.
• Project Management: Ability to effectively manage projects related to the replacement of parts or complete exchangers, including Shell and Tube or Air Coolers. Experience in coordinating with various departments and colleagues for project execution.
• Monitoring and Coordination: Ability to monitor activities carried out by various departments and interface directly with suppliers to ensure final delivery.
• Purchase Request Management: Experience in monitoring Purchase Requests and related Orders to ensure they respect the budget and that deliveries align with the manufacturing plan.
• Progress Reporting: Skilled in reviewing Progress Reports on the order's status with illustrations, graphs, and other relevant information for the customer.
• Prioritization: Ability to provide priorities for activities to be carried out by project team members.
• Cost Management: Ability to review received offers and recommend the best offer.
• Experienced in customer relationships management and service industry.
• Products expertise.
• Knowledge in construction code and in industries specifications and requirements.
• IT skills (Microsoft office packs, and internal software).
• Good English communication skill, both written and oral.
• Strong value orientation: safety, integrity, curiosity, eager to learn, diversity, performance, sustainability, teamwork.

Competencies and behaviour:

• Customer focus: service mindset, happy to help, problem solver mindset & will to improve.
• Trustworthiness: ability to build trusting relationships with colleagues and create a team spirit.
• Organizational and structured thinking capability: self-discipline, ability to effectively prioritize tasks and delegate.
• Performance focus: ability to monitor progress and keep team members motivated.
• Analytical mindset and ability to innovate and propose the right solutions, considering multiple aspects.
• Communication competency:  open, clear, concise, and confident communicator
• Team spirit: flexible and ability to understand and work in a matrix organizational structure.
• Leadership skills: leading by example.

Relationship

Internal : Service organization, departments (technical, procurement, logistics, administration, HR), capital sales team, QHSE, sales companies.

External : Customers, customers partners, agent, suppliers and sub-contractors, partners, third party resource providers.

Who you are?

You’re innovative and solutions oriented. You’re driven and practical, able to execute in the most efficient way possible. You also share our curious mindset and want to know how you can be better and do better day after day. Just as important are the people, team, and communication skills essential to delivering projects in an agile way that meet quality, time, and targets. If you’re also adaptable and flexible, eager to learn even more and have a curiosity that drives innovation, this is where you’ll find a world of career-building opportunity.

Why should you apply?

• We offer you an interesting and challenging position in an open and friendly environment where we help each other to develop and create value for our customers.
• Exciting place to build a global network with different nationalities to mingle and to learn.
• Your work will have a true impact on Alfa Laval’s future success; you will be learning new things every day.
• 140 years old Swedish multinational company with stable growth and expansion
• Sustainability and contributing back to the people and planet are motives behind everything we do.

We always look for both experience and potential, so if you think you have what it takes to join us and are curious to find out more, apply

"We care about diversity, inclusion and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioral traits can provide important insights into a candidate's fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.