Bid engineer

At Alfa Laval, Every day, we get opportunities to make a positive impact – on our colleagues, partners, customers and society. Together, we're pioneering the solutions of the future and unlocking the full potential of precious resources. Trusted to act on initiative, we challenge conventional thinking to develop world-leading technologies that inspire progress in vital areas, including energy, food, water and shipping.

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About the job

Project Order Bid Hub is a team in the central organization belonging to Business Unit Gasketed Plate Heat Exchangers in the Energy Division of Alfa Laval Lund. The team is responsible for managing and providing support in the bidding stage of complex projects with high added value. Our customers are global, and the bid team includes people from our global sales force as well as experts from local Operation sites.

You will be part of the bid team, analyzing customer technical specifications and providing feedback in terms of a clarification list, translating customer demands into specific extras/features of the heat exchangers. You will communicate internally with experts as well as with the customers in different technical clarification meetings. You will provide cost for special components and lead time information using different tools and systems. You will report to the Bid Hub manager.

Responsibilities

- Analyze customer technical specifications and prepare clarification/deviation lists

- Provide cost and lead time of special components using different tools and systems

- Support in thermal design

- Take an active role in clarification meetings that may include the customer

- Cooperate with central functions and experts, as well as salespeople in the local sales companies globally

- Quote for spare parts for Gasketed Plate Heat Exchangers in our installed base

- Answer general technical questions related to bids using our ticket system

- Be a first contact point for global sales people in questions around the fulfillment of customers' special demands

What you know

We believe you have a university degree in Engineering (preferably mechanical / Chemical or energy systems) or similar education, and are an experienced user of Microsoft Office programs. You have experience from and a good understanding of manufacturing/processes and supply chain. You are fluent in English on a high technical level, both spoken and written. You should have 3-4 years' work experience in the relevant field.  And Experience of Heat Exchanges would be an added advantage.

Who are you?

• Can work independently as well as in teams

• Can handle several projects in parallel

• Have great flexibility and ability to manage changes and prioritizations

• Problem solver with a high level of accountability and customer focus

• Our projects very often have a high technical complexity and thus require sensitivity to our customers' needs and sense of detail

• Communication skills are of great importance, together with documented experience of leading technical projects.

We offer you

We offer both inspiring and interesting positions in an open, friendly, and truly international environment where we work together to develop and create value for our customers.

To be a part of a team where the quotation work has the highest priority, since every well-delivered customer project starts with well-executed quotation work.

Interested? Please Apply

Note –

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