Manager Production Engineering Assembly

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Your role
You will play a major role in continuing developing the team and setting an efficient way of working where continuous improvement is a natural part of management in every day's work.
Production Development, as a part of Production, currently consists of five sections:
Production Engineering PCB-A, Production Engineering Assembly, Industrialisation Engineering, Test Infrastructure, and Test Solutions.
Together we are responsible for new product introductions and technical maintenance of existing production in order to meet customers' expectations.
We are now looking for a manager for the section - Production Engineering Assembly.
Production Engineering Assembly is responsible for production preparation (Work instructions, routing), management and development of the manufacturing processes related to electrical and mechanical aspects (including tools and/or methods necessary for the processes), production support, and non-conformity handling.
You will be responsible for the core areas within Production Engineering Assembly and aligning with our strategy.
This includes operational planning, development of the roles needed, balancing headcount with actual needs, and recruiting your team members.
You will lead a team with different competences within the Production Engineering Assembly field, e.g., cabling, mechanics, electronics, and microwave.
Your team will be responsible for ensuring efficient and effective production preparation, where standardization and keeping variation at a minimum will be cornerstones.
You will be a major player in continuing to define your section's framework including ways of working and lead your team towards continuous improvements within it.
Translating Saab, Surveillance, and Production strategies into clear and well-communicated targets for your team.
Lead your employees by acting according to Saab's values.
Full responsibility for results within your area, which includes safety and health, quality, delivery capacity, efficiency, and finance.
Coaching and development of abilities and competences in your team, thereby growing your staff to take on more complex and demanding tasks.
Empower your employees through value-driven leadership.
Follow up and take actions based on the organization's different KPIs for efficiency, budget, quality, and capacity.
Ensure that your team has the competence and confidence to handle current and future work, recruit and introduce new employees when applicable.
Actively support development and production projects in production engineering-related topics.
Your profile
We envision a management team where each member contributes with their individual experiences and skills to create an effective and dynamic environment.
As a manager, you will demonstrate communicative leadership skills in order to create commitment and energy within the organization.
You lead by values, visions, and goals, and are a leader that makes changes happen - together with your team.
Required skills:


Bachelor or Master of Science in engineering, Mechanical, Industrialisation, or other adequate educational or equal working experience.
Proven ability and interest in leading, developing, and challenging the organization, management teams, and employees.
Skills to combine strategic thinking with operational actions.
Excellent skills in spoken and written Swedish and English.

Desired skills:


Experiences from a leadership position in production engineering, industrialisation, or similar is a strong merit.
Experience from working as a production engineer before is a merit.
Experiences from working within production engineering, industrialisation of products (such as reuse of components, standardization in design, and minimizing of variation).
Experience from working with quality and broad understanding of IPC standards is a merit.

As a person, you are positive, structured, curious, and self-driven.
You have the ability to identify each team member's strengths and contributions as well as different individual needs to make him or her perform at the top of their potential.
Since we are executing our production development strategy, you and your team will be important ambassadors for ensuring a continued successful implementation.
This is why excellent communication skills are essential to succeed in your role.
This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around security protection.
For positions requiring security clearance, additional obligations on citizenship may apply.
What you will be a part of
Behind our innovations stand the people who make them possible.
Brave pioneers and curious minds.
Everyday heroes and inventive troubleshooters.
Those who share deep knowledge and those who explore sky-high.
And everyone in between.
Joining us means making an impact together, contributing in our own unique ways.
From crafting complex code and building impressive defence and security solutions to simply sharing a coffee with a colleague, every action counts.
We encourage you to take on challenges, to create smart inventions, and grow in our friendly and tech-savvy workspace.
We have a solid mission to keep people and society safe.
Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe.
Empowered by its 23,000 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.
Business Area Surveillance provides efficient solutions for safety and security, for surveillance and decision support, and for threat detection and protection.
The portfolio covers airborne, ground-based, and naval radar, electronic warfare, combat systems, and C4I solutions.
Production Järfälla belongs to Business Unit EWAS, with the mission to primarily serve Business Units Combat Systems and EWAS with production capacity and capability.
If you are interested in what benefits you can take part in as an employee at Saab in Sweden, you can read more about them here.
Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.
Regardless of whether you value cutting-edge technology, creativity, or an innovative environment, everyone at Saab contributes to keeping people and society safe.
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