Manager of Production Engineering

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Your role

You will be a member of the Production Development Management Team where your main responsibility will be to lead and manage one of three production engineering groups. You will do this by providing guidance, coaching and training to ensure a competent and motivated workforce. In our management team we work with joy, courage and engagement to continuously improve our leadership, processes and co-workers.

The Production Development unit is responsible for development and infrastructure of production tests, industrialisation of products, production engineering, logistics development and a sustainable production. The group led by you will consists of approximately 15 employees including consultants.

You and your team will interact with the production units, planning, design department, subproject managers as well as other functions within Sourcing, Production and Development.

To ensure manufacturability and cost efficiency of newly developed or upgraded products you and your team need to collaborate in cross functional teams.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Coaching your teams towards agreed goals and strategies
• Developing the skills and abilities of the co-workers
• Securing a good working environment within the unit
• Achieving agreed results for your area of responsibility, including finances, quality, delivery capacity and efficiency
• Leading in accordance with our organisational values
• Handling the day-to-day decisions in the organisation

Your profile

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic leader to develop, implement, and manage production engineering strategies and processes to ensure efficient and cost-effective production operations while maintaining product quality and safety standards.

While ensuring smooth production flows and resolving interruptions is an important part of your team's responsibilities, we want you to strive for resilient and robust production lines where proactivity mitigates reactive work. You use your experience in leading change and make data driven decisions to successfully implement changes towards future proof production capacity.

We believe you thrive in a, dynamic, process driven environment and you persistently drive, and adapt to, changes and new demands.

We also expect you have:

• Appropriate professional or postgraduate qualification, such as a B.Sc. or M.Sc. degree in production engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field
• Experience in leading and coaching teams
• Adequate experience within the area of operation, production strategy, production processes and production flows
• Experience from working in a medium-large industrial corporation
• Ability to pair strategic thinking with operational actions
• Personal leadership drive, creativity and positive energy

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

What you will be part of

Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,100 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here

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Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.