WHE Contract Order 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 Ethanol, Distillery, Starch, Industrial Fermentation, Water, Clean Energy, Food Processing, 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.

Join us as our Food and Water Services team to advance and learn alongside accomplished business leaders to help customers around the world to optimize their processes and enable growth

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.

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Main responsibility of the position :

The "Project Order Manager" in Satara is responsible for overall accountability to plan, execute and finalize complex project orders for Welded Heat Exchangers (WHE) according to the deadline agreed while keeping the project within budget.

• Manage project from receipt of order through final documentation to fulfill contract with customers.
• Responsible for leading the project team and ensuring the process flow and procedures are followed in accordance with Project Order Process.
• If required support Sales Companies, Bid team and customers in quotation/bid phase.

Key Tasks :

• Early involvement in projects from Bid Phase supporting Sales companies, Bid Managers and customers.
• Perform order clarification during sales/operations handover meeting.
• Manage planning. Monitoring and following up pre- and post- execution processes in WHE factory in Alfa Laval Satara.
• Conduct project meetings, set milestones and lead project members to meet the project schedule and keeping deadlines.
• Be accountable for delivery on time, specification, and budget for project orders (ETO)
• Secure necessary deliverables and documentation to meet customer requirements.
• Have direct contact with customers when required.
• Drive or assist with continuous improvement activities for processes, procedures, and systems.
• Report state of projects, perform project closure and evaluation of projects.
• Work closely with sales companies to ensure project financial targets are met and identify opportunities to enhance profit on projects.
• Manage change orders and deviations where necessary (evaluation of risks) and communicate with concern stakeholders.
• Develop strong working relationships with Sales Companies
• Secure projects are executed in compliance with Alfa Laval's safety and quality requirements
• Travel to resolve alignment issues with stakeholders and participate at kick-off meetings.

Education & Experience:

• BE or higher Technical education
• 10+ years of experience in Project Management of complex projects
• Technical project management experience
• Used to work in ERP system environments e.g. Endeavor D365
• English high level in speaking and writing
• Handle customers and orders with high complexity

Abilities, Knowledge and Attributes

• Act based on Alfa Laval's values.
• Show flexibility in complicated situations.
• Ability to coordinate inter-activity between all departments and make decisions based on available data and instinct
• Manage change and deviation when required.
• Be customer-focused, service-minded, proactive and responsible.
• Accept, understand and able to handle resilience.
• Prone to change and ability to handle uncertainty.
• Have good collaboration skills, be motivating and communicative.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organization skills
• Networking capabilities and Cross-cultural understanding
• Financial understanding
• Knowledge of Project and contract management, commercial orientation, purchasing, legal terms, and manufacturing processes
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and act decisively.
• Modern people management skills

Attitude

• Leader
• Proactive
• Integrity
• Persistent
• Team player
• Positive

Key relationships:

• Global and Local Project Order Management team
• Sales Companies
• Local Unit Managers, Order planning and Engineering
• PM's
• Sourcing
• Quality
• Manufacturing

Physical & Environmental Factors

• Office environment with frequent attendance on the shop floor. Safety equipment required when present on the shop floor – footwear, hearing, eyewear.
• Environmental Factors (hazardous materials, work location, work surfaces, exposure).

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.
• Your work will have a true impact on Alfa Laval's future success, you will be learning new things every day.

"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 to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games."