Solva Regional Project Lead

WHO WE ARE:

Seco is a global metal cutting and machining solutions provider with a strong heritage in innovation precision tools and lasting partnerships. With sustainability at the heart of how we work we help manufacturers solve complex challenges and shape the future of manufacturing through collaboration technology and customer-focused solutions.

Seco SOLVA is transforming manufacturing by going beyond cutting tools to deliver holistic end-to-end solutions that improve efficiency profitability and competitiveness across the full production process. Built on Secos strong legacy strategic partnerships and innovative thinking SOLVA helps manufacturers unlock their full potential through fast easy and sustainable solutions.

We are now looking for a Solva Regional Project Lead to lead the delivery of customer projects from agreed scope through execution partnership support closure and this role you will coordinate cross-functional expertise build trusted customer relationships and help deliver measurable improvements in productivity quality cost capacity sustainability and long-term supportability.

Job Summary:
As Solva Regional Project Lead you will support Solva offer development and lead the end-to-end delivery of complex customer projects as an experienced individual contributor. Working through the Solva Way of Working you will connect Solva Business Development regional sales the Innovation Hub local technical teams customers and partners to translate manufacturing challenges into structured opportunities and measurable outcomes. You will contribute to customer Discovery and Assessment opportunity qualification value cases technical proposals Statements of Work risks KPIs and alignment before taking ownership of execution quality governance customer communication milestones escalation closure and sustainable handover to local Seco teams. Through cross-functional coordination coaching and consistent use of Solva tools and standards you will help deliver improvements in productivity cost per part quality process stability capacity sustainability and long-term supportabilitywithout direct line-management responsibility.

This role reports to the Solva Global Project Manager

Candidates from Charlotte California and Atlanta will be preferred.

Key responsibilities of the role:

Solva Offer Leadership

• Support Solva Business Development and regional sales in qualifying opportunities that require integrated manufacturing outcomes rather than standalone tooling solutions.
• Lead or support customer Discovery and Assessment activities covering capability capacity process efficiency operational constraints service needs risks and business opportunity.
• 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 aligned with customer requirements and strategic goals.
• Support Statements of Work commercial discussions staged deliverables customer alignment and handover from offer shaping into delivery execution.

Solva Delivery Leadership

• Lead and govern complex Solva project delivery in line with the Solva Way of Working: Discovery Assessment Proposal Agreement Execution Partnership and Support.
• 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.

Capability Support & Knowledge Sharing

• Share practical Solva knowledge with local Technical Sales Engineers Account Managers Application Engineers and project contributors to strengthen delivery capability and local ownership.
• 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 to enable timely coordination and escalation.
• Contribute to lessons learned continuous improvement safety collaboration and customer value creation.

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement

• Represent Solva as a senior customer-facing project leader able to engage 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 related to project performance or future opportunities.
• Coach local account managers technical sales engineers and support teams to sustain customer relationships KPIs improvement actions and long-term partnership opportunities.

Operational Governance & Reporting

• 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.

Health Safety Environment Quality & Compliance

• 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.

Required Competencies:

Skills and strengths we hope you bring

• 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.

Behavior

• Customer-focused and accountable with a strong commitment to quality and measurable value creation.
• Adaptable collaborative and resilient with confidence to communicate risk and resolve delivery issues constructively.
• Structured proactive safety-conscious and improvement-oriented with high standards of ethics compliance and attention to detail.
• Commercially aware and innovative with the ability to connect technical recommendations to strategic customer outcomes.

Qualification and Experience:

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

Important information:
Selection and interviews will take place on an ongoing basis so we encourage you to submit your application through the job link as soon as possible and no later than 20 August 2026. To help us keep the recruitment process fair smooth and consistent for everyone please submit your application only through the job link and not by personal email.