About this role
Want to Influence the Bigger Picture? At Saab, You Can Realize 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 a group responsible for developing test equipment needed to verify our Avionics products. The group consists of 12 employees with diverse expertise within the test equipment domain.
This role is operational, tactical, and strategic in nature:
* Operational - You are expected to support and drive the team to deliver on customer commitments daily, in a fast-paced environment with many moving parts
* Tactical - You are expected to work with colleagues and internal stakeholders to support successful project delivery to customers, ensuring we meet targets and milestones
* Strategic - You are responsible, together with your manager and management team, to foster a culture of continuous improvement, define and secure future resource needs and competencies, and develop employees to excel
You will report to the Head of System Engineering and work closely with the System Engineering management team, where you are supported by your manager and fellow section managers.
This group is on a journey of change and improvement where you will have an opportunity to shape and enhance our work and delivery. Together with the Head of System Engineering, you will analyze, design, and implement KPIs, metrics, and procedural improvements within your group.
Your Profile
We are seeking a person with strong leadership skills and the ability to empower and coach employees. We believe you are motivated to set directions and work with the group's long-term goals. You focus on team effort and foster an environment of psychological safety, where everyone feels they have a part to play and their voice is heard.
To succeed in this role, we believe you have excellent communication skills across all organizational levels and experience in successfully driving change management, as well as prior leadership experience.
A relevant engineering background is not a requirement but is a merit.
Focus will be on personality and qualifying traits applicable to the role.
This position requires passing a security vetting based on current security protection regulations. For positions requiring security clearance, additional citizenship obligations may apply.
What You Will Be a 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 worldwide and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here.
Please note that this is an ongoing recruitment process, and the position may be filled before the advertisement's closing date.