Want to influence the bigger picture? At Saab, you can realise amazing innovations that keep people and societies safe. Together, we can truly make an impact – and your part matters.
Your role
In this role, you will lead and manage an engineering group of 10 people called “Safety, Reliability & Maintainability”. The group is fairly new and has grown a lot the last 2 years and is a diverse group with both technical experts and junior colleagues. The group’s main responsibility is safety analysis, system development, fault tree analysis, failure mode analysis, reliability predictions and analysis connected to spare parts and repairs. The group members spend most of their time working in our projects and you as the line manager have an important part in giving the group a sense of belonging, matching competence for the tasks and supporting your groups deliveries.
Your primary task will be:
Set up a structure for the group
Define the ways of working together with the technical expert
Define the interface to our projects and project managers
Identify competence and resource gaps
Develop the competence of the staff and grow the group more by recruitments.
Your second task will be to get the group efficient, improve the ways of working and continue develop the competence of the staff.
Your profile
We are looking for a person with good leadership skills and with the ability to empower and coach your employees. We believe that you are motivated to set directions and work with the long-term goals of forming this group, and also demonstrate perseverance and the ability to energize those around you.
To succeed in this role, you have:
Structure, you are able to set up a plan and implement it
Good communication skills in English
Ability and experience of change management, both the group and organization are growing
Prior leadership experience
A relevant engineering background is preferred but not required.
We envision a management team where each member contributes with their individual experiences and skills to create an effective and dynamic environment. We will therefore put great emphasis on your personal qualities and abilities to best complement the team.
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 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 22,000 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 offers world-leading sensor technology in monitoring and decision support to protect against threats. The portfolio covers airborne, ground-based and naval radar, electronic warfare, C4I solutions, aviation systems and cyber security.
Electronic Warfare and Aircraft Systems (EWAS) is a business unit within the business area Surveillance. The part located in Huskvarna focuses on safety critical aircraft systems for both civilian and military aircraft.