Solva Regional Project Lead

Solva Regional Project Lead

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 Seco's 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 handover. In 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.

This role reports to the Solva Global Project Manager.

Candidates from Charlotte, California and Atlanta will be preferred.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Maintain visibility of regional Solva project status,…