Material Developer

1 week ago


Göteborg, Sweden Volvo Personvagnar AB Full time

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

Surface Material - Let's introduce ourselves

Surface Material within Vehicle Engineering at Volvo Cars is responsible for developing all interior surface materials in our cars. We use our expertise to create premium and sustainable materials for our customers wellbeing and desire. Together we challenge each other to develop and use next generation technologies, both in early strategic phase, concept phase as well as implementing into new car programs.
Now we are looking for an engaged team member with experience of working with material development and that have surface material knowledge, mainly in the program implementation phase.

We need a Material Developer that mainly will develop Surface Materials for seating application such as upholstery materials, door insert materials and for small parts applications.

What you'll do

As a Material Developer within Surface Material implementation, you will have the responsibility to quality assure and finalize the development of the materials in our new programs. In the industrialization phase you will lead and have the ownership of time and technique within the specific area.
This role is working close together with the component development teams, design, procurement and our material suppliers.

Your main tasks will be:

* Lead and drive quality assurance and have responsibility for time plans, technique and cost for your developments within our new car programs
* Lead and drive color and material development for your developments to reach correct appearance and haptic
* Develop and release of physical masters
* Work together in cross-functional teams, cooperating with component engineers, CMF designers, procurement, material lab
* Continual contact and cooperation with suppliers within your area
Constantly work with continuous improvement, developing our processes and our way of work


What you'll bring

Competence and experience is important as well as personality As a member in our team, you must be motivated and self-propelled with a curious and flexible mindset. You need a high level of communication and presentation skills, and you take pride in delivering on time. The complexity is high, so you have to be analytic and structured and have a good sense for creating and following technical logical plans. You enjoy working in collaboration with others and you actively participate in the team’s daily work by leading, coaching and supporting your colleagues. Since you will work in a global setup, we expect you to be fluent in English.

To be successful in this role we believe you have:
* A University degree, preferably within Material Design Engineering
* Relevant work-life experience from the automotive area
* Knowledge and experience within Team Center and Planisware (or similar systems)
* A good color sight/vision


And it’s a bonus if you have:
* Experience in KDP


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