Product Manager/Application Engineer, Albany International

Albany International Corp. is a global advanced textiles and materials processing company with two core businesses. Machine Clothing is the world's leading producer of custom-designed fabrics and belts essential to production in the paper, nonwovens and other process industries. Albany Engineered Composites is a rapidly growing supplier of highly engineered composite parts for the aerospace industry.

The primary business of Albany International AB Halmstad (Sweden) is supplying the expanding global paper industry with consumable, technologically sophisticated products called paper machine clothing. Paper machine clothing is used to produce all grades of paper from lightweight sanitary tissue to heavyweight container board. These custom-designed engineered fabrics, essential to the paper making process, are manufactured from monofilament and synthetic fiber materials. This basic technology is also utilized for other industrial process applications.

Albany International AB, is now looking for a Product Manager/Application Engineer, Drying.
Our customers produce paper for printing/writing and packaging. In the dryer section, the paper sheet travels around large-diameter heated cylinders, where remaining water is removed by evaporation. Dryer fabrics hold the sheet in close contact with the hot cylinders through the drying process. Dryer fabrics must be heat resistant, robust, and designed for
both drying efficiently and evenly. Albany International is the global market leader for paper machine clothing (fabrics) for pulp and paper industry.

Now we are searching for a person with a good technical and analytical skills as well as understanding the commercial side. Experience and knowledge of technical textiles or paper and pulp industry is an advantage.

Position description
The position is based in Albany’s facilities in Halmstad (Sweden) and reports to the Director
Applications Eurasia. You will be responsible for the dryer fabrics in Sweden, Norway
and Denmark. The role will with knowledge and technical understanding support the sales- and
service department in customer related issues and will hold presentations and training within the
product area. You will be responsible for applying and designing our dryer fabrics and function as a link between the customer, production and R&D.

The role will also follow up current installations and trials at the customer site on regular basis.

Requirements
Degree in engineering or similar is required. You should have experience working in an industrial
organization in a customer focused position. The position requires that you have good IT
knowledge and SAP experience is a merit. Further you should be accustomed to travel and have
experience in sales or service. Fluent in Swedish and English both written and verbally is a requirement.

Personal Profile
To be successful in the position you should be self-driven and have a positive approach. Further you
should have the ability to engage people and communicate in a positive manner with both internal and
external stakeholders. You should also be able to structure and organize your work and communicate
technical matters in a successful way. The position requires that you have a good business
understanding as well as a broad technical knowledge.

Application and contact

This recruitment is managed by PS Partner. If you see the position at Albany International as challenging and interesting, please apply through www.pspartner.se. Interviews will be conducted continuously. Should you have any questions regarding this position please contact Kerstin Stener at +46 0703 04 69 19 or Mats Törn + 46 761 645969