Process Engineer with a passion for Energy Saving

The Process Industry is entering an era of fundamental changes that will transform the industry for years to come. Sustainability and energy efficiency are today no longer buzzwords but instead bare minimum to ensure competitiveness. Also, we at Alfa Laval carry energy efficiency close to our hearts. It is the easiest and fastest way to reduce CO2-emissions and truly speed-up climate change. Our Gasketed Plate Heat Exchangers are saving our customers huge amounts of energy every day and reduce their maintenance expenditures to the minimum. With our new product developments, we have the vast ambition to deliver even more savings to our customers in the future. Business Unit Gasketed Plate Heat Exchanger (BU GPHE), part of Alfa Laval’s Energy Division, is now looking for a passionate Process Engineer to bring us to the next level on this exciting journey.

About the job

As our Process Engineer for Gasketed Plate Heat Exchangers, you will work in a truly international environment, playing a crucial role in establishing our position as the #1 partner in our customers’ energy savings projects. You are part of a passionate and informal team of experienced Sales Developers and Sales Engineers who look out for each, support each other, and try to have a good laugh every day.

In your role, you will be the driving force behind an ambitious project to quantify and visualize the energy savings our Gasketed Plate Heat Exchangers are delivering. Together with our application experts, you will take a deep dive in our customer’s processes. Customers covering the whole energy spectrum, from oil & gas, refinery and petrochemical, over inorganic chemicals, steel, pulp & paper to conventional and renewable power. You will calculate the impact our equipment has on these processes. You will develop ways to visualize this for our customers and be a key person in changing the mindset of our sales engineers and customers towards energy savings.

Your main responsibilities include:
* Drive the development of our Energy Savings and OPEX Savings program by engaging all different stakeholders in the company.
* Enhance the collaboration between Capital Sales and Service by quantifying and visualizing common values.
* Support our sales teams with in-depth process knowledge in order to identify best technical solutions.
* Heat exchanger calculation and sizing for complex applications.
* Troubleshooting in case of performance issues of our equipment at customer’s site.
* Develop and provide specific process and application trainings for our global sales teams and customers.
* Cooperate with our Business Developer on new energy markets to identify potential new applications for our heat exchangers.

This position is a joint initiative between our Capital Sales and Service Departments, so you will work closely with both teams.  You are an important part of an agile team based in Alfa Laval’s head office in Lund (Sweden). Occasionally you will be travelling globally, estimated about 10-20 days/year. You will report to the Global Sales Manager.

Who are you?

You have a high interest in heavy industry processes, you are curious to learn more and like going in the details of them. You enjoy detailed technical discussions with your colleagues and customers. You can analyse a complex problem quickly and see the bigger picture. You are passionate about optimizing our customer’s processes and have a commercial thinking when doing so. You can build a solid network within an international company and engage people for your goals. You are energetic, positive, structured, goal oriented and deliver according to agreed plans.

What you know

You have a chemical or process engineering degree, an interest in thermal design and in digital and online tools. First process engineering experience is a plus, but most importantly you are curious and eager to learn and can build up expertise quickly by yourself. You are an excellent communicator generally, in English, both verbal and in writing, and on all levels within the company.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a challenging position in an open and innovative environment where we help each other to develop and create value. Your work will have exposure throughout the whole company and will have a true impact for a sustainable future and for Alfa Laval’s future success.

For more information, please contact:

Joris Peeters, Global Sales Manager, +46 709 78 74 70

Karin Wilkenson, Talent Acquisition Partner, +46 722 08 31 05

For Union Information, please Contact

Johan Ranhög, Akademikerna, +46 46 2891664

Stefan Sandell, Ledarna, +46 46 367364

Bror Garcia Lantz, Unionen, +46 709 366985

We review applications continually, so please send in yous as soon as possible. Applications sent directly via email will be disregarded without notice.