Pre-Sales Project Specialist (Powder Handling)

Job Summary

Tetra Pak is a global leader in packaging and processing solutions for the food industry. Our mission is to ensure that food is safe and available everywhere. With a broad portfolio of products ranging from packaging materials to processing equipment, we employ the most advanced and innovative technology to protect food, ensuring its quality and safety. 
As a Pre Sales Project Manager in our Food Processing Solutions and Equipment team at Tetra Pak, you will play a crucial role in the pre-project phase for food processing solutions, particularly in powder handling systems. This involves designing tailored technical concepts and solutions, specifying equipment components, estimating costs, and preparing project timelines to support the sales team in formulating competitive proposals to our clients. You will collaborate with internal teams and customers, primarily in the Americas Markets, to ensure that proposed solutions meet Tetra Pak's standards and customer expectations. Your expertise will be essential in driving client engagements and facilitating the transition to engineering and project management teams for successful project execution.
This position is based in Monte Mor, São Paulo, and entails flexible travelling.

Those who belong to minorized diversity groups, such as women, black, Indigenous, people with disabilities, and others, are encouraged to apply.

What you will do

As Pre sales Project Manager, you will:

• Working out technical concepts and solutions on time, on budget and on scope within the required quality from small to large scale technical projects by aligning with Tetra Pak experts across borders to prepare a reliable quote in compliance to Tetra Pak’s standards and governance that meet customers’ expectations;
• Leading the process design, driving technical discussions, working out and engineering process and line solutions, specifying components, calculating costs, preparing quotation and contracting documents;
• Leading the project on time, on budget and on scope within the required quality from small to large scale technical projects from initial customer needs captured and evaluated to firm quotation and handover to implementation team;
• Defining deliverables and fixing the scope together with customer and customer management based on strategic and economic evaluations;
• Preparing, organizing and leading design and risk reviews, time schedules, commissioning and performance commitments;
• Closing cooperation with the Supply Management organization;
• Leading the pre-project team that is set up for medium and large-scale pre-projects (none of them direct reports) or collaborating with the project core team and the project management;
• Acting as pre-project manager in smaller and medium scale opportunities;
• While handling implementation projects, leading the process design, ordering of process components/equipment in line with Tetra Pak Supply Management guidelines;
• Review/owning the solution provided;
• Review and ensure the hygienic installation drawings;
• Support site installation team as and when required for critical process/utility installation;
• Technical coordination with cross-functional team (Electrical, Automation, PMO, PCO and Installation);
• Lead commissioning activity up to customer handover to make high customer satisfaction level;
• Act as PM for small projects in absence of project manager;
• Act as an ambassador for Tetra Pak.

We believe you have

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical / Process / Food Engineering;
• Full fluency in English language, both verbal and written (this is a must);
• Experience with food / liquid processing projects – engineering, commissioning and working on installation projects;
• Experience in a client facing role; customer-focused mindset;
• Understanding of service business and customers’ needs;
• Technical and commercial negotiations skills, analytical problem-solving approach;
• Skills with MS office tools (Excel, Word, Project) and SAP required for business reporting purposes;
• Familiarity with general engineering and drawing software tools used for large scale plant engineering would be a plus (eg. AutoCAD);
• Experience in using database driven engineering design tools is would be a plus (e.g. Matrix, SSP).