Project Manager

alfalaval; Aalborg; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Alfa Laval in Aalborg, Denmark, is seeking a Projects Manager for Aftersales and New Build. You will coordinate a portfolio of small to mid-size projects, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and to quality standards.

The role requires a structured, proactive individual with strong coordination skills, experience in marine or industrial settings, and the ability to handle around 30 active projects concurrently, engaging sales, engineering, procurement, and service teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marine/Mechanical engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in project management.
• Experience in marine, industrial or technical environments.
• Ability to manage ~30 concurrent projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of small to mid-size Aftersales and New Build projects from order handover through delivery, invoicing, and closure.
• Coordinate approximately 30 concurrent projects with planning, procurement, documentation, logistics, and customer communication.
• Own project planning, milestones, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder inputs.
• Ensure delivery within scope, timeline, budget, and quality requirements.
• Monitor project financial performance, including cost follow-up and invoicing milestones.
• Identify and resolve risks, delays, and scope changes before they affect the customer or business.
• Maintain accurate project data in ERP, CRM and project management tools.

Skills

Project management

Coordination

Stakeholder communication

Planning

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marine Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

ERP systems

CRM systems

Project management software

Job description

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Project Manager - Aftersales and New Build Projects

About the role

We are looking for a structured, proactive, and customer-focused Project Manager to manage a portfolio of small to mid-size projects within Aftersales and New Build / Capital Sales. This role is ideal for someone who combines technical understanding, commercial awareness, and strong coordination skills in a fast-moving marine or industrial environment. As Project Manager, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing multiple projects in parallel, typically around 30 active projects at different stages of completion. These may include customer deliveries, upgrades, replacements, service-related projects, equipment packages, spare parts-related project scopes, and new build project commitments. You will act as the key coordination point between customers, internal sales teams, engineering, procurement, logistics, service teams, finance, suppliers, and other relevant stakeholders. Your main responsibility is to ensure that each project is delivered according to agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality expectations, and invoicing milestones. This position requires a high level of ownership, attention to detail, and the ability to manage shifting priorities while maintaining a clear overview of deadlines, risks, customer expectations, and internal commitments.

Key responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Manage a portfolio of small to mid-size Aftersales and New Build projects from order handover through delivery, invoicing, and closure.
• Coordinate approximately 30 concurrent projects , ensuring clear progress across planning, procurement, documentation, logistics, customer communication, and final delivery.
• Own project planning and follow-up , including schedules, milestones, action lists, risks, dependencies, and required stakeholder inputs.
• Ensure projects are delivered according to agreed scope, timeline, budget, quality requirements, and customer expectations.
• Act as the main coordination point between customers and internal stakeholders , including sales, engineering, procurement, logistics, service, finance, and suppliers.
• Monitor project financial performance , including cost follow-up, margin awareness, change impacts, and timely invoicing according to agreed milestones.
• Identify, escalating, and resolve project risks, delays, scope changes, and delivery issues before they negatively affect the customer or business.
• Manage customer communication proactively and professionally , providing updates, clarifying requirements, and ensuring customer satisfaction throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with internal processes, procedures, documentation standards, and project governance requirements.
• Maintain accurate project data in relevant systems , including ERP, CRM and project management tools to support transparency, reportingandprojectcontrol.

About you

You are a structured and solution-oriented ProjectManager who can maintain control of many moving parts at the same time. You are comfortable workingin an environment where priorities may change, deadlines are important, and different stakeholders may have competing expectations.

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To succeed in this role, you should be able to:

• Prioritize effectively across many concurrent projects.
• Maintain structure and overview in a complex project portfolio.
• Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Stay calm and constructive when facing setbacks or urgent issues.
• Build trust with customers through transparency, reliability, and professional follow-up.
• Work with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Balance quality, cost, delivery time, and customer satisfaction.

What you know

You have a strong technical foundation combined with experience from project execution in a marine, industrial, or technical business environment. You understand the importance of delivering projects according to agreed scope, time, cost, quality, and customer expectations.

We believe you have:

• A bachelor's degree in Marine Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or another relevant technical field - or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience from project management, project coordination, technical sales support, service project execution, marin