Marina, Proposal Manager at Keppel Seghers
Varied range of tasks
My working days as a proposal manager vary enormously. Sometimes I prepare new proposals, I draw the design for a boiler, or I prepare a pricing for a complete waste-to-energy installation based on the input of my colleagues. It is an interesting mix of independent work and teamwork and it gives me great satisfaction to always work towards a finished proposal, design or pricing.
What is extra interesting about this job is that I often have contact with other countries. After all, we make quotations for waste-to-energy installations all over the world. The fact that English is the working language for these contacts made it easy for me to find my way around Keppel Seghers, as Dutch is not my native language. The international nature of our company also makes it more attractive for people from different backgrounds to apply here.
Flexibility is our asset
Our strength is mainly our flexibility in our projects and products. We always try to understand our customers, suppliers and partners and we are constantly open to new suggestions and ideas. Moreover, we like to share our own expertise and guide our customers where necessary. Thanks to this productive collaboration, we can often deviate from our standard designs and ensure that our solutions are always adapted to the needs of the customer.
I also see that flexibility in the working atmosphere at our office. The atmosphere within the company is always very pleasant and everyone always tries to support each other. We all have one common goal and you can feel that within the company. No matter what happens, together we strive for the best solution for our customers.
Family and international
When I applied here 17 years ago, Keppel Seghers was still a small family business and that atmosphere still hangs here. You know everyone here. Yet we are also part of the Keppel Group and are thus part of a large, international company. This way we have the advantages of both types of companies: the nice family atmosphere and the international impact to convince many new customers of your expertise.
Kenneth, Project Manager at Keppel Seghers
International contacts
In my position as project manager I have to be at home in many markets. I have daily contact with my colleagues from engineering, procurement, site management, planning, ..., in short, all the puzzle pieces that are needed to make a project a success. This way I quickly get a general overview of all the different components in the construction process of our waste-to-energy installations.
But the most interesting part of my job remains the contact with our customers who are spread all over the world. Whether it be via email, Skype or even face-to-face, these international contacts really make my job interesting. A different culture naturally entails a different way of doing business, but such a culture clash helps you put your own vision into perspective and contributes to your personal development.
Smooth cooperation with customers and colleagues
At Keppel Seghers I therefore have the feeling that the great strength of the company lies in the people themselves. I am amazed every day with how many intelligent colleagues I can work with here to come up with the best solutions for our customers. Everyone is an expert in their field, but also remains approachable for a nice chat or to go for a walk together during the afternoon. I really appreciate that feeling of comfort and it makes everyone feel at home here.
We also try to achieve that feeling towards the customers by always being very flexible. Keppel Seghers often goes further than the standard solutions offered by competitors. At the request of the customer, we adjust our proposals and we can also successfully realize them. We dare to deviate from the standard and that makes the cooperation with our customers so productive.
This smooth cooperation has ultimately ensured that we have already been able to carry out projects with waste-to-energy installations in China, Singapore and Australia. You can really see a part of the world when you work at Keppel Seghers and you should certainly not pass up that opportunity!
Nicolas, Sales & Business Development Manager at Keppel Seghers
At Keppel Seghers you are in control of your job and career path
In the 13 years that I have now worked for Keppel Seghers, I have been given the opportunity to perform various functions. I was successively project engineer, process engineer, operations manager of our Chinese office and project manager. Now I have ended up in a more commercial position, that of Sales & Business Development manager. My trajectory taught me that at Keppel Seghers you can largely give shape to your position yourself and you can also pursue a varied career path.
As a Sales & Business Development Manager you have a wide range of tasks. For example, we perform due diligence on potential projects. This means that we investigate the likelihood of the transactions, test the strength of all parties involved and try to formulate our USP. When that is over, we manage the tenders together with the proposal team. In addition, a technically creative solution is described in detail, a commercial and legal analysis is carried out, a pricing strategy is devised and everyone is kept internally informed about everything related to the tender, including risk management. We are also responsible for contract negotiations with customers and project partners. In addition, we also ensure a smooth transfer to the project team.
Social relevance is combined with a challenging job
At Keppel Seghers you will find a leading technological world player in the field of renewable energy. Our employees are encouraged to take the initiative and contribute to the knowledge of the organization. Our way of project and document management makes us one of the best in continuous learning. At the same time, we are also certain that new knowledge is effectively applied in the implementation of new projects. Everyone is also encouraged to immerse themselves in outside technology and to produce practical proposals in this regard that have added value for Keppel Seghers, his customers and even society in the broadest sense of the word!
Jason Lu, Project Manager at Keppel Seghers
Open and Efficient Global team
As a local project manager, I work in a gobal project team with project members in Belgium and site engineers in different project sites. Although there are thousands miles between each other during most of time, we always keep efficient communication during all phases of project inlcuidng design, procurment, erection and commissioning, so as to achieve all project milstones.
All team members are open to share comments and suggestions which helps to overcome challenges of the proejct. Meanwhile, project team pay much attention on collecting lesson and learned, so that project team is keep improving itself during entire project execution period and provides better products and service to our client.
Fantastic job with career development and social responsibility
Keppel Seghers has projects all around the world which provides a wide and progressive platform for every employee. You will do multipal projects parallely which makes you grow fast and extend your skills as well. Colleagues are friendly and professional, you will always get supports regardless your team members are all over the world.
Another amazing part of this job is that when you build a waste to energy plant using KeppelSeghers adance and mature WTE technology, actually you are making a cleaner and beautiful world. Our efforts decrease carbon emssion and provide clean energy at same time. So in the end, we are fullfilling kind of social respsibilty when doing our job.
Michelle Rong, Senior Accounting Executive at Keppel Seghers
Love challenges, love fighting
In 2012Y I joined Keppel Seghers, thanks for excellent colleagues providing me guidance and assistance, helping me to adjust my status to fit into the company. My managers communicate with us on a regular and irregular basis on objectives, milestones and results, and it is really helpful.
Globalized working environment makes me grow fast, although full of challenges and unknown condition. One Keppel promote us to summarize and share, professional knowledge and experience. I am not alone to strive, fighting with international teams.
Inspirit and confidence
COVID-19 has swept to take a toll on everyone all over the world. As a member of Keppel Seghers, I am deeply moved by global colleagues’ concern and support for us to fight against the pandemic. It inspirits us to face the difficulties more bravely, and keep normal life without panic.
We all know COVID-19 has severely impacted the global economy and brought market volatility and uncertainty. A stable working environment can appease employees’ worried and anxious during this special time. Keppel Seghers keeps the normal workflow and minimize the impact from outside. Hope our team has a brighter future.