Field Project Engineer

Alfa Laval Corporate AB; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Alfa Laval Corporate AB in Al Khobar seeks a Project Engineer to lead complex service projects across the Middle East, coordinating with customers, subcontractors, and internal teams.

You will travel frequently, ensure safety and quality standards, and deliver technically sound, commercially competitive proposals while maintaining profitability. Ideal candidate has 4–8 years of engineering experience, strong negotiation skills, and fluency in Italian is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.
• Experience in project engineering, field execution, commissioning, or industrial projects.
• Strong technical, commercial, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in Italian is preferred.
• Experience working with customers and contractors across the Middle East region is an advantage.
• Willingness to travel and work on-site as required.

Responsibilities

• Prepare project-specific estimations by exploring and coordinating with local service providers and contractors, obtaining competitive quotations, negotiating favorable pricing, and developing technically sound and commercially competitive proposals while ensuring profitability.
• Support and manage customer projects across the Middle East region through regular interaction, site visits, meetings, and coordination with customer project teams.
• Coordinate closely with service execution teams, subcontractors, customer project teams, and sales departments.
• Participate in customer meetings, site visits, and project discussions to support successful project execution and proposal development.
• Monitor project progress and performance against approved plans while controlling costs to avoid overruns and minimize deviations.
• Identify, organize, and manage the resources required to complete projects efficiently and resolve execution challenges to avoid delays.
• Select, coordinate, and manage subcontractors to ensure smooth project integration and satisfactory service standards.
• Supervise on-site activities and participate in project execution, commissioning, and start-up alongside client representatives.
• Ensure compliance with project specifications, safety standards, and quality requirements throughout execution.

Skills

Italian language

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Job Description

About the Company :

At Alfa Laval, we are committed to creating a more sustainable future through engineering innovation. Our technologies support customers across food, water, energy, pharmaceutical, and industrial applications by improving efficiency, reliability, and productivity.

Join our Food & Water Services team to work closely with customers and internal stakeholders in driving lifecycle service growth through spare parts, upgrades, service agreements, and technical service solutions.

Please visit: Alfa Laval

Responsibilities :

Prepare project-specific estimations by exploring and coordinating with local service providers and contractors, obtaining competitive quotations, negotiating favorable pricing, and developing technically sound and commercially competitive proposals while ensuring profitability.

Support and manage customer projects across the Middle East region through regular interaction, site visits, meetings, and coordination with customer project teams.

Coordinate closely with service execution teams, subcontractors, customer project teams, and sales departments.

Participate in customer meetings, site visits, and project discussions to support successful project execution and proposal development.

Monitor project progress and performance against approved plans while controlling costs to avoid overruns and minimize deviations.

Identify, organize, and manage the resources required to complete projects efficiently and resolve execution challenges to avoid delays.

Select, coordinate, and manage subcontractors to ensure smooth project integration and satisfactory service standards.

Supervise on-site activities and participate in project execution, commissioning, and start-up alongside client representatives.

Ensure compliance with project specifications, safety standards, and quality requirements throughout execution.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills :

Proficient in Italian language

Experience – 4 to 8yrs

Location - Al Khobar

Strong exposure and knowledge of Safety Standards

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.

Experience in project engineering, field execution, commissioning, or industrial projects.

Strong technical, commercial, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.

Proficiency in Italian is preferred.

Experience working with customers and contractors across the Middle East region is an advantage.

Willingness to travel and work on-site as required.

Physical & Environmental Factors :

Special physical, psychological and work life balance demands of the role

Market is very dynamic and has strong demands from customer for faster solutions and deliveries. It requires the manager to be alert to the market conditions and closely coordinate with all stake holders.

Travelling is essential, as the manager is responsible for covering a wide geographical region

Maximum time needs to be spent at the customer’s end.

Should be able to withstand work pressures.

Why should you apply:

• We offer you an interesting and challenging position in an open and friendly environment where we help each other to develop and create value for our customers.
• An exciting place to build a global network with different nationalities.
• Your work will have a true impact on Alfa Laval’s future success; you will be learning new things every day.

We care about diversity, inclusion and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioural traits can provide important insights into a candidate's fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.

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