Mechanical Engineer, Product Configuration

At Alfa Laval, we always go that extra mile to overcome the toughest challenges. Our driving force is to accelerate success for our customers, people, and planet. You can only achieve that by having dedicated people with a curious mind. Curiosity is the spark behind great ideas. And great ideas drive progress.

As a member of our team, you thrive in a truly diverse and inclusive workplace based on care and empowerment. You are here to make a difference. Constantly building bridges to the future with sustainable solutions that have an impact on our planet’s most urgent problems. Making the world a better place. Every day. Are you curious?

Who are you?

We believe that you are driven of optimizing processes to improve efficiency and quality with a strong business focus. The right candidate is self-motivated and will easily network across business functions in an international and cross-cultural environment, working in line with our drivers: Action, Interaction and Satisfaction. As an individual you have a high level of initiative, personal development and a strong commitment to job knowledge, productivity and attention to detail resulting in high solution performance and user satisfaction. You have an analytical mindset, see solutions rather than problems and effectively prioritize and execute tasks. If the above sound like you, this position may be what you are looking for!

About the job

Product configuration is an important area for Alfa Laval’s success. Our Gasketed Plate Heat Exchanger (GPHE) products are customized to meet a specific customer use case and are sold via a configuration tool. Our sales configurator is used by both internal sales and by our external partners globally. It is integrated with both internal sales systems and our e-Business portal. You will be part of a team delivering the Engineering Configurator (eConfigurator) for GPHE. The eConfigurator handles the technical rules for product variance and is integrated in the overall sales configurator.

Alfa Laval is currently on a digital transformation journey. As part of this transformation, we have created a global organization to digitally support our business in the best possible way. We are setting ourselves up to work agile, based on the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) framework.

In this job, you will develop the eConfigurator and the modularized product architecture that underpins it. You will implement the Product structure, the Modules and Module-variants, Rule-Matrixes, and formulas for product configuration logic. You will also play an important role in quality assurance, testing and deployment of the eConfigurator, as well as managing some support tools built on the eConfigurator.

The development and delivery of the software is done in close cooperation with R&D, Product Management, Sales, Manufacturing, as well as Central IT, and it all takes place in a global work environment.

What you know

We believe you have studied Mechanical engineering or equivalent. You have excellent communication and presentation skills and fluent in business English. You have an interest in and understanding of the technical domain, combined with a functional and business-oriented understanding.

It is meriting if you have experience from product information modelling or have worked with the software tools Tacton Studio or Palma. General programming knowledge and experience is also considered a merit.

What's in it for you?

We offer you a challenging position in an open and friendly environment where we help each other to develop and create value. Your work will have a true impact on Alfa Laval's future success.