Executive profile

David Nordin
Principal Engineer & Technical Strategist

David Nordin is a principal engineer and technical strategist working through HubMind AB. He helps asset owners connect requirements, architecture, information, suppliers and technical disciplines so that complex industrial and infrastructure solutions can be procured, verified, owned and developed over time.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
David Nordin is a principal engineer and technical strategist who represents asset owners in complex industrial, infrastructure and asset-intensive programmes. He connects requirements, architecture, information, suppliers and technical disciplines so that solutions can be procured, verified, operated and developed over time. His background spans hands-on automation design, systems integration, BMS, IT/OT and technical project delivery.

CURRENT ASSIGNMENT
Pågen AB - New Bakery Landskrona: BMS/Facility and IT/OT/MES/Bakery workstreams, client side
- Owner-side principal engineering and technical strategy for Pågen AB's New Bakery Landskrona programme, spanning BMS/facility and IT/OT/MES/bakery workstreams on the client side.
- Develops and maintains owner-side requirements, standards, interface principles and verification logic across BMS, IT/OT and digitalisation.
- Challenges supplier solutions and translates critical issues into decision papers, procurement inputs, technical clarifications and contract-ready actions.
- Coordinates technical direction across production, facility, automation, IT, information and supplier workstreams.
- Prior independent senior consulting for Schneider Electric on industrial automation and BMS solution strategy, customer dialogue and delivery positioning.

STANDARDS CONTRIBUTION
Brings systems engineering discipline to owner-side programmes: stakeholder needs, requirements engineering, traceability, architecture, interfaces, verification and acceptance strategy, applied consistently from procurement through commissioning and handover.

CORE CAPABILITIES
- Owner-side technical leadership
- Systems engineering and requirements
- IT/OT and automation
- Technical information and data
- Procurement and supplier alignment
- Delivery assurance and optimisation

ASSIGNMENT VALUE
David connects requirements, architecture, information, suppliers and technical disciplines so that complex industrial and infrastructure solutions can be procured, verified, owned and developed over time. He is typically engaged when a project needs an independent technical perspective across organisational, disciplinary and contractual boundaries. Background includes contractor, designer, consultant, technical lead and owner-side roles across 20+ years.

ENVIRONMENTS AND TECHNICAL DOMAINS
Industrial production, food and beverage, energy, water and wastewater, infrastructure, aviation, healthcare and laboratories.

CHOOSE A STARTING POINT
- Set the technical direction before major commitments: The project needs a coherent technical position before concept selection, budgeting or procurement. Expected outcome: a documented direction with options, principles, risks, decisions and next steps.
- Turn needs and standards into procurable requirements: Needs, standards and technical expectations are not yet clear, atomic, traceable or verifiable. Expected outcome: requirements and procurement material that suppliers can price, answer and be evaluated against.
- Align IT, OT, automation and operational platforms: BMS, SCADA, MES/MOM, production systems, networks and data platforms are developing as separate silos. Expected outcome: clear system boundaries, interfaces, data flows, ownership and integration principles.
- Create control over technical information and lifecycle data: Objects, signals, documents, tags, models and asset records do not describe the same reality. Expected outcome: a governed information structure with semantic mappings, master ownership and lifecycle traceability.
- Resolve critical supplier and interface situations: A supplier solution, scope boundary or technical discussion is blocking progress or creating contractual risk. Expected outcome: an independent assessment, viable options and a practical path to decision or contractual action.
- Make delivery, acceptance and handover verifiable: The project lacks a clear link from requirements to tests, evidence, handover data and operational ownership. Expected outcome: a verification and acceptance structure that supports FAT, SAT, commissioning, handover and future development.

WAYS TO ENGAGE
- Interim technical strategist
- Owner's Representative or Owner's Engineer
- Principal engineer or technical workstream lead
- Requirements and procurement lead
- Systems architecture and integration lead
- Independent review, assessment or second opinion

TYPICAL DELIVERABLES
- Feasibility study, option analysis or technical due diligence
- Technical strategy, target architecture or roadmap
- Owner standards, governance model and design principles
- Requirements specification, classification and traceability structure
- System boundary model, interface matrix and responsibility model
- Technical information model, data mapping and naming principles
- Procurement package, RFQ support and supplier evaluation
- Technical review, decision paper or supplier challenge brief
- Verification plan, acceptance criteria and FAT/SAT strategy
- Commissioning review, post-delivery adjustment and optimisation plan

SELECTED EVIDENCE
- Vattenfall Ringhals - Ringhals nuclear power plant (2024, I&C Technical Area Lead): System design, system construction and technical area responsibility for instrumentation and control in a nuclear power environment.
- Novo Energy AB - Battery factory (2023-2024, Assignment Lead and Technical Lead for Automation and Integration Platform): Designed the integration platform, SCADA concept and automation structures for PMS, UMS, BMS, LMS and EMS. Supported early-stage requirements, procurement, supplier evaluation and negotiation for a large battery-manufacturing programme.
- West Link Contractors, NCC and Wayss & Freytag - West Link E05 Korsvägen (2020-2022, Technical Area Lead, Infrastructure Automation): Design requirements, technical direction and construction responsibility for control and monitoring systems in a major rail infrastructure programme.
- Västfastigheter - Maternity and neonatal centre (2020-2023, Assignment Lead, Control and Monitoring Systems): Led BMS and control design for a large hospital project with high redundancy, advanced VAV, room controls, technical descriptions, drawings and multidisciplinary coordination.
- City of Gothenburg, Kretslopp & Vatten - Stormwater reservoir control and forecasting (2023-2024, Technical Consultant and Automation Designer): Automation design for flow control, forecasting and reservoir operation during heavy rainfall and stormwater events.
- Swedavia, Stockholm Arlanda Airport - Chlorination and process water systems (2021-2023, Technical Investigator): Investigated and corrected process water and chlorination systems requiring precise autonomous operation for airport-wide use.

RELATED KNOWLEDGE
- Requirements Management in Technical Projects
- Multidisciplinary Digitalisation
- Technical Debt in Technical Facilities
- Weihenstephan Standards
- Technical Information Architecture
- Seven Machines, Seven Dialects
- IEC 81346
- When IT Manages OT

LINKEDIN
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-nordin-technical-strategy/