Director VPS, Quality & Environment at Tuve plant

As our current Director VPS, Quality & Environment at Tuve plant has moved on to another truly value adding role within our plant, this key management role opens for you here in sunny Tuve.

We are looking for a highly engaged colleague who wants to join us and the Volvo Group to help us achieve our vision of becoming the most desired and successful transport as well as infrastructure solution provider in the world. Automated driving, electromobility and connected vehicles - innovations within transport will reshape the world we live in tomorrow. Do you want to be part of and contribute to this exciting challenge?

As the Director VPS, Quality & Environment you will hold a key role in the plant as well as in the management team. Our management team is diverse, we like unique people with remarkable talents! We work and play hard and operate as one team. We care about people, growth, excellence, and results. In this position you will report directly to the Vice President Operations Tuve Plant.

The Director VPS, Quality & Environment has a lot of engaged, skilled and dedicated employees. We are looking for someone who loves people, enjoy leadership, show commitment, and have fun. You need to be passionate about making things better for our plant and secure your teams continue to support the organization. You are a change agent and your experience within operations is a plus, being able to meet people where they are. Customer satisfaction, sustainability, improvements, problem solving, and people are words that make you tick! You are driving and supporting our journey towards 0 defects mindset and sustainable operations. Your coaching leadership skill is key to continue our improvement journey pace and bring us on the way to Platinum.
The plant has a fantastic and inspiring but also demanding journey in front of us, we will succeed together, and you are an important key for this success.


What we absolutely need you to do


· Enhance the strategy and communicate it so that people understand what it´s all about – our future. You transform with Vision!
· Speak up, influence to create positive change in the complete end2end flow. You lead with Passion!
· Be a moral hero so that you earn the authority to inspire greatness in those around you. You perform with Purpose!
· Recognize others and they will recognize you.
· Be responsible for the overall VPS, Quality and Environment management processes within the Tuve Plant, to support the organization to achieve the agreed objectives.
· Manage the VPS and Quality organization with specialists, to support the value flow with a good VPS-culture having the zero-defect mindset in focus.
· Enhance environment focus within the plant.
· Quality project and production processes including product audits.
· Internal and external audits.

The ticket to ride


· A can-do mind-set.
· A positive thinker and an open-minded non-verbal communicator and interpreter.
· The ability to create a common ground for innovation.
· Good knowledge in VPS, quality, and environment processes.
· Knowledge of ISO system as well as focus areas, including management criteria.
· Good understanding of the business and ability to take a holistic view.
· Proficiency in the English language is required.
· Experience from working in a lean manufacturing environment.
· University degree, MBA or equivalent experience and knowledge. Ability to demonstrate successful production leadership.
If you are looking for a challenge in a high pace environment, have a deep understanding of our industry and a true passion for customer success - we are hopefully the obvious choice - you are most welcome with your application.