Solva Regional Project Lead

Construction, Engineering & Trades · Architecture & Planning · Construction Management

In short

Seco is looking for a Solva Regional Project Lead in Malaysia to lead end-to-end delivery of customer manufacturing projects. This role involves cross-functional coordination, stakeholder engagement, and driving improvements in productivity, cost, quality, and sustainability, reporting to the Solva Global Project Manager.

Responsibilities

Lead and govern complex Solva project delivery according to the Solva Way of Working.
Own execution quality, customer communication, action tracking, milestones, risk management, escalation, and delivery performance.
Ensure projects deliver measurable outcomes across productivity, cost per part, quality, process stability, capacity, sustainability, and long-term supportability.
Coordinate Innovation Hub, application engineering, machining specialists, partners, suppliers, and local Seco teams.
Coach local Technical Sales Engineers, Account Managers, and Application Engineers to use Solva tools and sustain ownership after handover.
Ensure structured closure, lessons learned, case study capture, and handover to the local Seco organization.
Support Solva Business Development and regional sales in qualifying opportunities.
Lead or support customer Discovery and Assessment activities.
Translate customer challenges into structured opportunity definitions, value hypotheses, assessment scopes, and proposal inputs.
Develop and review budgetary technical proposals, business cases, assumptions, risks, KPIs, and value propositions.
Support Statements of Work, commercial discussions, staged deliverables, customer alignment, and handover from offer shaping into delivery execution.
Share practical Solva knowledge with local teams to strengthen delivery capability.
Promote consistent use of Solva tools, templates, project governance, reporting standards, customer communication routines, and action tracking.
Identify project needs, constraints, risks, specialist support requirements, and partner involvement.
Contribute to lessons learned, continuous improvement, safety, collaboration, and customer value creation.
Represent Solva as a senior customer-facing project leader engaging technical, operational, commercial, and senior management stakeholders.
Build trust by connecting technical recommendations to measurable customer business outcomes.
Support customer reviews, business reviews, project steering meetings, and strategic account discussions.
Coach local account managers, technical sales engineers, and support teams to sustain customer relationships, KPIs, improvement actions, and long-term partnership opportunities.
Maintain visibility of regional Solva project status, risks, workload, pipeline readiness, delivery capacity, and customer impact.
Drive consistent use of project tracking, action logs, dashboards, project files, documentation standards, and performance reporting.
Identify improvements that support Solva scalability, repeatability, delivery speed, governance, and customer experience.
Provide insights on regional capability gaps, project demand, competency needs, and future Solva operating-model requirements.
Champion safe working practices for customer-site assessments, trials, project implementation, partner involvement, and travel.
Ensure project work follows customer requirements, Seco procedures, the Sandvik Code of Conduct, legal obligations, quality expectations, and environmental responsibilities.
Promote risk awareness, audit readiness, traceability, and compliance across Solva project delivery and partner collaboration.
Act as a senior Seco and Solva ambassador, demonstrating accountability, customer focus, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Demonstrated project leadership capability, including cross-functional coordination, stakeholder alignment, action management, and structured handover.
Proven ability to operate across the full Solva lifecycle from Discovery and Assessment through Proposal, Agreement, Execution, Partnership, Support, and handover.
Strong manufacturing engineering knowledge covering machining, tooling, programming, process optimisation, cost per part, OEE, quality, and production stability.
Advanced project governance, risk management, customer communication, action tracking, reporting, prioritisation, resource coordination, and escalation management.
Ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams without direct authority, manage conflict, and align contributors around customer and business outcomes.
Strong digital literacy, data analysis, commercial awareness, innovation mindset, and confidence using CRM, project tracking tools, dashboards, and Microsoft 365.
Fluent written and spoken English; additional regional languages are advantageous.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, business, project management, or a related technical or commercial field, or equivalent relevant industry and leadership experience.
10+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, technical project leadership, business development support, industrial solutions, application engineering, or a related customer-facing technical environment.
Proven experience leading complex customer projects and coordinating cross-functional technical contributors without direct line-management responsibility.
Strong experience in machining process improvement, tooling strategy, production engineering, CAD/CAM, fixtures, partner coordination, or manufacturing optimisation.
Experience in value-based, consultative, or solution-selling environments, linking technical recommendations to measurable business outcomes.
Experience working with regional or global teams, customers, suppliers, and strategic partners.
Proficiency in Microsoft 365, CRM systems, project tracking tools, reporting dashboards, proposal writing, and structured project documentation.
Fluent English and a valid passport with willingness and ability to travel regionally and internationally; additional languages are advantageous.

Desired Qualifications

Project Management, Agile, PMP, PRINCE2, Lean Six Sigma, continuous improvement, or manufacturing excellence certification is desirable.

Benefits

Selection and interviews will take place on an ongoing basis.

Skills

Project ManagementManufacturing EngineeringRisk ManagementStakeholder ManagementCustomer Relationship ManagementLean Six SigmaPMPPRINCE2AgileMicrosoft 365CRMCAD/CAM

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About Sandvik

Sandvik is a global, high-tech engineering group providing solutions that enhance productivity, profitability and sustainability for the manufacturing, mining and infrastructure industries. We are at the forefront of digitalization and focus on optimizing our customers’ processes. Our world-leading offering includes equipment, tools, services and digital solutions for machining, mining, rock excavation and rock processing. In 2024, the Sandvik Group had approximately 41,000 employees, sales in more than 150 countries and revenues of about SEK 123 billion.

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