Manager - Automation Engineering

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About the job

As our new Manager for Automation Engineering you will lead a globally distributed team responsible for Hardware and Software Engineering on customer projects in Service and Capital Sales. Your team will be primarily distributed between our sites in Aalborg Denmark and China.

In this role you will lead a team leader at our Chinese site as part of a layered leadership structure and are expected to champion a strong culture of safety care and accountability throughout the organization. Your primary mission is to ensure efficient compliant and high-quality project engineering delivery while driving continuous improvement & process governance.

In this role you will serve as a people manager and will not be hands-on engineering yourself. Moreover you and your team will be a part of bringing new products and control philosophies to market in close collaboration with our R&D Sales & Project Management departments as well as engineering off-standard solutions according to customer demand when required.

Some of your key responsibilities include:

• Lead develop and inspire a global Automation Engineering team setting a high-performance standard while fostering a healthy safe and inclusive work environment. You will promote professional growth open dialogue and a culture of trust and respect as key enablers of sustained excellence.

• Ensure consistent professional engineering across all sites aligning with technical scope class compliance timelines and quality standards.

• Act as the functional process owner for Automation Engineering in customer project execution setting and governing ways of working and process adherence.

• Ensure required competence level is kept within the full product portfolio as well as optimal use of the main Automation tools E-plan & Siemens TIA portal including introduction of new features and tools to the team.

• Responsible for resource planning & staffing of the area.

• Create structure where it is missing and ensure overview where it doesnt already exist.

• Engage in proactive risk reviews to support the right quality & reliability in the engineered solutions while keeping budget for allocated hours.

About you

You are a people-oriented leader with a strong focus on team well-being development and engagement. Your approach ensures that every team member feels valued and motivated fostering a positive and productive work environment. With a process-driven mindset you bring a structured and analytical approach to your work. You can balance operational execution with strategic development responsibilities. You are able to see the bigger picture and access challenges from different perspectives and thereby evaluate pros and cons for different opportunities.

As a strong communicator and relationship builder your communication skills help you build and maintain strong relationships with colleagues stakeholders and suppliers ensuring clear and effective collaboration. Your high sense of accountability and commitment to organizational success drive you to take ownership and strive for excellence in all your responsibilities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors or masters degree in marine engineering electrical engineering or a related field.

• Proven leadership experience managing global or multi-site Engineering teams.

• Strong understanding of control systems resource planning and stakeholder management.

• Familiarity with compliance-driven environments and structured process ownership.

• Demonstrated ability to lead change and implement structured ways of working.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Solid background in engineering ideally within engineering-intensive and project-based industries.

• Experience from the marine industry.

• Experience with digital project- product- and engineering tools such as E-plan Siemens TIA as well as ERP- and PLM systems.

As part of a global organization speaking and writing English is a prerequisite.

The position requires travel to China for approximately 14 days at a time two to four times per year.

For more information please contact

Manager Engineering & Supply Toke Andersen at or Talent Acquisition Partner Regitze Stenholt Skytte Jrgensen at .

Please send your application no later than 08.09.2025.

At Alfa Laval we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive and dynamic workplace that values diverse perspectives and experiences. While we typically welcome applicants from all locations for this particular role we are prioritizing candidates who are currently residing in Aalborg or have an established presence in the area.

We are conducting a continuous review of received applications. We do not accept applications via email due to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

We care about diversity inclusion and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioral traits can provide important insights into a candidates fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments. Upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games and completing them is mandatory.

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