Senior Project Manager - Systems and Automation

Alfa Laval is a leading global provider of specialized products and engineering solutions based on its key technologies of heat transfer, separation and fluid handling.

The company’s equipment, systems and services are dedicated to assisting customers in optimizing the performance of their processes. The solutions help them to heat, cool, separate and transport products in industries that produce food and beverages, chemicals and petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, starch, sugar and ethanol.


Alfa Laval’s products are also used in power plants, aboard ships, in the mechanical engineering industry, in the mining industry and for wastewater treatment, as well as for comfort climate and refrigeration applications.


Alfa Laval’s worldwide organization works closely with customers in nearly 100 countries to help them stay ahead in the global arena.

Alfa Laval is listed on the Nordic Exchange, Nordic Large Cap, and in 2011 posted annual sales of about SEK 28 billion (approx 2.8 billion euros) The company has some 16,000 employees.


Alfa Laval runs product development and drives product strategies through a number of Product and Business Centres. The Business Centre for separator systems in Tumba is responsible for research, development, testing, project management, product maintenance, product management and sales development for the separator system range.  The main objective of the centre is to improve the profitability of the separator system business through our initiatives and activities.


Alfa Laval have a great ability to capture new business opportunities in new markets by identifing the customer needs in the new market and then developing our separator and system in order to meet the demands. At the moment we need to strengthen our project management team with a senior project manager with experience from systems and automation.

The person we are looking for should have:
• Minimum 10 years’ experience of  project management mainly from running new product development projects
• Deep business understanding, budget, time plan, project scope, risk analysis and quality approach is important
• Experience with technically complex projects creating customer values
• Ability to create high performing project teams
• Very good communication skills
• Knowledge of stage gate project models

In addition your skills and experience include process, automation and instrumentation to be applied on e.g. oils, fuels, and water cleaning treatment. Experience working with systems onboard seagoing vessels and on land based plants is an advantage. Things  that are important for you are structure, demand specifications, beeing clear and keeping promised deliveries. The Alfa Lavals values that drive us to achieve our goal are; action, courage, teamwork and profit. Does these words describe you as Project manager then you are the person we are looking for.

You will join a team of highly skilled and motivated colleagues and work in a technically challenging and developing business. The Project Office has a key role in the Business Centre and it contributes significantly to the achievements of the Business Centre. You will be located in Tumba, south of Stockholm, and report to the Project Office Manager.

If you want to know more about this position, please contact:
Mona Klein, Project Office Manager, tel. +46 73 233 52 32 or
Karin Elm, HR Business Partner, Tel.+46 708 477 035

For union information contact:
Eva Alvin, Sveriges Ingenjörer, +46 732 005 356
Bengt Hanell, Unionen, +46 709 787 303

Please send your application and CV in English no later than August 19th, 2013 by using the Career pages on Share.