Director Hardware Components

Power Conversion, Director, Hardware Components


The department Electromobility is organized within the product development organization of Group Trucks Technology in Gothenburg. Within the Electromobility department we work with design and development of electromobility systems and components such as energy storage, motor drives and charging solutions for Volvo group products. Electromobility is one important technology area with strong contribution in reducing the CO2 emissions in our society. Our main customers are the different brands within Volvo group.


Job Description
The work is performed in an international environment together with your future colleagues around the globe. As a director for Hardware Components you will focus on the development of the components for the electrical vehicle driveline system in cooperation with colleagues within the electromobility team in your own department as well as globally with sister-teams in India. As well as with the customers and stakeholders within the Volvo community.
The electromobility area is under strong development and the team is expanding. We are looking for a new leader for the department that is technology driven, comfortable leading change, customer oriented, supportive and a good coach for the teams as well as leader of leaders . We believe that you have previous experience from being a leader in any form and that you have several years of experience from development. Preferable you also have experience from a work environment were agile and lean principles are applied in a practical way in daily work.


Qualifications
Strong drive and energy level with ability to create a high performing working culture
A networking leader with courage, integrity who can lead and drive changes together with the team
Team oriented with proven interest in people development
Experience from product development preferably on a modular and reuse-level
Result oriented and always looking for improvements in our way of working
Communicative and with good influencing skills
Education at M.Sc. level or similar
Fluent in English, both written and spoken

What we can offer:
In an innovative and inspiring environment, you will together with your leadership team and highly skilled engineers get the opportunity to develop your professional as well as your individual skills.
We strive for balance in diversity, by taking gender, age, experience as well as life experience, personality etc. into account. We believe that actively prioritizing a high level of diversity in our workforce we create a competitive advantage. It is the individuals in the team and our ability to cooperate that makes the difference.


For further information contact:
Åsa Hansson, +55 41 9919 22647