Department Manager – Engineering Machining High Volume: Gears & Shafts

We are one of the best transmission factories in the world and we produce some of the best transmissions on the market. Join our journey!


The production plant in Köping is the transmission center within the Volvo Group Truck Operations, Powertrain Production. Our site is the “Center of Excellence” within the area of transmission solutions and today we are 1650 employees. We are now looking for our new department manager within Engineering Machining High Volume: Gears & Shaft. We are looking for an outstanding leader, who is eager to develop and that really wants to lead our team into the future.


Background, responsibilities and qualifications


As a department manager within Engineering Machining High Volume: Gears & Shaft, you will report directly to our Area Manager Engineering Machining. This role is a leadership position with 20 direct reporting Production Engineers. The department has a strong operational focus as well as a strategic development mindset. We target you that have the inner drive to take on such a job with, knowledge, enthusiasm and engagement. We are seeking for a true star to grow.
Functional responsibilities:
Deliver required to operate from an engineering perspective towards production machining
Local process owner
Local technology owner
Local component owner
Delivery in projects
Chairman of steering committee for projects within machining area

Within Industrial Engineering and Pilot Plant Köping team spirit and collaboration is essential for success. We believe strongly that team play comes with the journey of working proactively with our long-term determination in industrializing future technologies whilst standing shoulder to shoulder in facing our daily operations pulse. Within our journey, we enjoy having great fun together and we build a culture for customer success, trust, passion, change and performance.
Within this role, you take the:
Responsibility and accountability for your whole organization’s performance
Responsibility for leading the organization towards continuous improvements over time
Responsibility in engaging strongly for people development and making others reach their goals
Responsibility in contributing fully to the cross-functional work that you participate in

Who are you?


As a suitable candidate, you should be inspired and motivated of what is described above. You will be the front-runner for your department and it is important that you can find alignment with top-level objectives. As a person, you need clear customer focus and business understanding. An ability of strategic thinking, as well as a strong sense of urgency and high responsiveness is essential. Other qualities that we value are a structured way of working and a quality mindset, good communication and presentation skills, an analytical capacity and faced based approach.
Following qualifications are at your favor:
A Machining Engineering background, preferably with a relevant M.Sc. degree
Experience from suitable leadership positions
Knowledge of production processes for creating proactivity, stability and increasing efficiency
Industrialization of new industrial equipment for secure life cycle management
Ways of working for securing technical installed industrial capacity
Excellent communication skills in both Swedish and English, spoken and written.

Does this sound interesting?


For more information, please contact recruiting manager Anders Lindin, Area Manager Engineering Machining +46 72 8624626 or Emelie Skälhammar, HR Business Partner +46221 414505.


Selection of candidates will occur during the recruitment time, so do not wait with your application. We hope you feel strongly motivated for this job, we look forward to receive your application as soon as possible but no later than April 6. Welcome aboard!


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