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Project Management

Job Profile summary (purpose)

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

• Manage projects on time, on specifications and on budget
• Has the authority to make decisions and manage the allocated resources, within given frame and budget
• Stakeholder management and communication
• Report to steering committee (internal and external)

Key activities

• Project Quotation
  • Involvement in project quotation to support Bid Engineering with the risk analysis and cost and lead-time estimation
• Project Initiation
  • Secure project registration & documentation
  • Review contract
  • Secure Handover from Sales (through a Handover meeting called by Sales)
• Project Planning
  • Facilitate contract review by Project Team
  • Facilitate Internal Project Kick Off Meeting
  • Technical Review
    • Facilitate internal technical review (if required)
    • Technical clarifications with Sales / customer (based on input from the Project Team)
  • Project Planning
    • Log initial risks and opportunities incl. mitigation / exploitation actions
    • Issue / updating the project schedule & activity plan (based on input from the Project Team)
    • Check budget
    • Send order acknowledgement (if not already done by Sales)
• Project Execution
  • Call and facilitate project kick off meeting with customer, if the meeting is not called or facilitated by the customer
  • Customer Communication
    • Report project status to customer (order status, document status, manufacturing status, delivery date, change orders)
    • Formalize and log all customer lead-time deviations (e.g. design approval)
    • Facilitate responses to technical comments from the customer about the design
  • Call and facilitate pre-inspection meeting with customer
  • Project Monitoring & Controlling
    • Report and manage risks, issues, opportunities
    • Pursuing orders
    • Monitor project activities, incl. verification of task progress & hours
    • Control project costs / manage allocated financial resources to achieve project objectives
    • Maintain project schedule & activity plan
    • Control project activities, e.g. inform customers of design freeze, authorize start of manufacturing, approve payment of main suppliers’ invoices, manage invoicing to the customer (even if through the Sales Company)
  • Internal Communication
  • Report project status to Alfa Laval management (manhour deviation, gross margin deviation, delivery time deviation)
  • Participate in project reviews by Alfa Laval management
  • Call and facilitate project closure meeting with customer
  • Project Closure
  • Call and facilitate internal project closure meeting incl. handover to Service

Location: Suisio (BG)

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