Team Leader, Mechanical Engineering

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Who you are：

We are looking Team Leader of Mechanical Engineering for our Business Unit Heat & Gas Systems (BU HGS) Qingdao Marine site. As a Team Leader, you are working in our Engineering & Supply organization, and you are part of Mechanical Engineering team. Your work is to lead Mechanical Engineering team in Qingdao which is working in order execution of capital sales and service projects. Your team is working with boilers, burners, heaters, gas combustion units, exhaust gas cleaning products and related system components. Mechanical team will ensure that mechanical design and components fit to project specific requirements before handing over to customer, manufacturing and purchasing. You are reporting locally to E&S Site Manager, and you have operational dotted line to Mechanical Team Manager in Denmark. You and your team are closely working with E&S colleagues in Europe and project teams & Alfa Laval’s sales companies & customers in Northeast Asia and our factory in Qingdao.

To succeed in this position, you have few years’ experiences of leading people, and you have mechanical engineer background. You have good organizing, co-ordination and communication skills. You are cooperative and able to communicate in fluent English.

About the job

• Applicable technical education (M.Sc./B.Sc.)
• Experience of leading people. You have been working before as a people’s manager
• Experience from mechanical engineering or marine engineering or manufacturing industry
• You have experience and you can use 3D design software. We appreciate knowledge of Autodesk Inventor and Vault
• You are result driven team leader, who likes to be present in the organization
• You have a strategic & tactical perspective. You get motivated from challenges and can maintain high performance while working under pressure
• You are open and you have good communication skills and ability to make decisions
• You are a cooperative team player who has cross-cultural understanding
• You have a systematic working style and ability finding solutions and you are willing to develop your own and your team’s daily work. You drive results through people
• You are structured and systematic in your work, and you have commitment to deliver agreed results
• Good English skill both oral and written

What you know：

• Lead your team and support your team members in their daily work
• Develop and motivate your team members
• Ensure that Key Performance Indicators are set & data are available for evaluation. Responsible for Performance dialogues.
• Responsible for ensuring quality and efficiency in the Mechanical Engineering area
• Ensure compliance with Alfa Laval global standards & procedures
• Ensure that strategic actions are broken down to operational actions
• Build trust and maintain strong and transparent relationships with internal & external stakeholders
• Drive and secure that tasks are done on time through motivation of the team
• Contribute and motivate team to optimize work processes, internally and externally
• Support that technical mechanical solutions are delivered to customer projects, hereunder ensure functionality & design according to customer expectations
• Contribute to increase in customer satisfaction
• Contribute to efficiency and cost optimization in BU HGS
• High quality level in processes, execution efficiency and product quality
• Contribute to develop and optimize order process and SOP’s

We appreciate

• Experience and knowledge from boiler and pressure vessel manufacturing industry
• Experience and knowledge from marine / shipbuilding industry

We offer you a diverse and challenging job in an international company. Your location will be in Qingdao, China. You are working daily with your local colleagues in Qingdao and international colleagues worldwide.

Hi all,

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