Alfa Laval is looking for an Application and Product Specialist ( BU EFT )

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Background  

The Energy Division is in a transformation to clean technologies with many new business opportunities, and we need to strengthen our team. Alfa Laval is active in the entire hydrogen value chain, where our heat transfer technologies are core components. Alfa Laval’s proprietary technologies and heat transfer expertise, in combination with its global manufacturing capabilities, are essential to enable the acceleration of decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors through our mission to facilitate affordable and efficient solutions on an industrial scale. Together with our customers, we are now increasing our focus around innovative technologies in the area of electrolyzer and fuel cell technologies.   

About the job  

We offer an interesting job opportunity within the Business Unit Electrolyzer and Fuel cell Technologies (BU-EFT) for you who enjoy working with key customers in a global market and high-end technologies. You will be based in Lund, Sweden and report to the Vice President, Strategy & Partnerships, who leads the business develop area.

The Application Product Specialist (APS) for BU EFT will act as the technical and application interface between customers, R&D, and the business development team. The role is critical in supporting the early deployment and industrialization of our new Fusion-Bonded Gas heat exchanger, the FBG product platform, in high- temperature applications such as Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) and Solid Oxide Electrolysis  Cell (SOEC) systems. The APS will ensure that customer needs, application challenges, and insights from the market are translated into actionable input for product development and deployment in
customer pilots and real commercial launches. The role will grow to ensure that any relevant existing products from Alfa Laval are also brought into the application scope.

Key responsibilities for this role include:

• Customer Project Interface: Serve as the primary technical contact for FBG heat exchanger projects, collaborating with the Business Development Manager to guide customer leads from initial contact through technical offer preparation, demos, and pilot integration.

• Application Expertise: Develop deep understanding of SOFC/SOEC system requirements and translate market and application insights into product sizing criteria, proposals for the customers, and create input for future product roadmap.

• Industrialization Support: Provide product roadmap input from customer feedback and pilot results, collaborate with R&D on validation and testing, and monitor field performance with customer follow-up.

• Market & Competitor Insights: Gather market trends, customer insights, and competitor benchmarks, and support forecasting for FBG product demand in current and future customer projects.

• Training & Enablement: Over time develop training materials for internal stakeholders.

What you know

You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering combined with several years of technical experience working with heat exchangers and heat transfer, preferably in high-temperature processes. Your technical experience comes paired with a solid commercial mindset and customer-focused approach. We trust you are result-oriented and thrive from identifying solutions, capable of translating technical knowledge into practical, value-adding solutions for customers. Proficiency in English both written and spoken is a must for this role.

Who you are

You are a self-motivated and resilient person, demonstrating the endurance to manage various tasks simultaneously. We trust you bring a positive and agile mindset and a great contribution as a team player. With a strong commitment to quality and attention to detail, the ideal candidate ensures that every solution meets the highest technical and performance standards. You succeed in building and maintaining strong relationships across functions and with external stakeholders.

What’s in it for you  

We offer an inspiring and challenging position in an open, friendly, and international environment. A team where we work together in an agile and entrepreneurial way to develop business and create value for our colleagues and customers. Your work will have a true impact on enabling a new cleantech area to and Alfa Laval’s future success.  

Assessment practicalities 

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. 

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and secure workplace, we conduct background checks on final candidates for this role.  

For more information, please contact:  

Tue Johannessen, Vice President, Head of Strategy & Partnerships, Electrolyzer & Fuel Cell technologies, Tue.Johannessen@alfalaval.com

Tanja Sukaj Talent Acquisition Partner, tanja.sukaj@alfalaval.com   

For union information, please contact:  

Johan Ranhög, Akademikerna, +46 46 2891664

Stefan Sandell, Ledarna, +46 46 367364

Monica Anderberg, Unionen, +46709623811

We review applications continually, so please send yours no later than 15th of November 2025. If the right candidate appears, the ad will be closed earlier. Applications sent directly via email will be disregarded without notice due to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).