Group Manager Chassis Structure & Body Building Engineering

About us
The Volvo Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment and marine and industrial engines under the leading brands Volvo, Renault Trucks, Mack, UD Trucks, Eicher, SDLG, Terex Trucks, Prevost, Nova Bus, UD Bus, Sunwin Bus and Volvo Penta.


Volvo Buses
We are driven by a purpose to ensure that millions of people reach their travel destination every day. Reliably, safely and with respect for the environment. We want to make a difference, being pioneers of sustainable transport solutions of the future.


Group Manager, Chassis structure and Body Building Engineering
We have an open possibility and are you a passionate leader with a coaching approach for developing people, operations and products? Do you thrive in leading change and are able to create a climate that is based on trust with cross functional teamwork were everyone are accountable and proud of the products and solutions we deliver for our customers success? Then we could be a match.


Position Description
Platform Development is a function within Global Bus Technology at Volvo Buses. We are responsible for developing platform solutions within the areas of Chassis, HVAC, Vehicle Dynamics, Powertrain and Electrical.
Volvo Buses is now seeking a Group Manager for Chassis Structure and Body Building Engineering within Chassis & Driveline Development who has the drive and passion to contribute to Volvo buses profitability and who sees that the key to success is to develop people and technologies to have products meeting future needs.


The group is responsible for development of our chassis structure that is the backbone of chassis where all components and systems are connected to, and they are leading composite development for our products in the future and they are also responsible for the CA development. The team also develop and provides the engineering support, requirements and instructions to body builders to secure complete buses for our customers.
The size of the group is about 16 engineers.


Main tasks
You will have the responsibility to develop the group, technology and the people to support future needs contributing to Volvo Buses profitability. Within this responsibility you will need to define, agree and communicate and execute strategies and targets for the group. In this position you are the owner of the technology area, where you will be part of delivering technical solutions to start cost, maintenance and advances engineering projects according to quality, delivery, cost and feature targets. Prioritization and direction setting for short- and long-term activities are part of your day-to-day activities. You will need to secure good networks within and outside of the Volvo Group
In this position you will also be part of the Chassis & Driveline Development management team, and report to Director Chassis & Driveline Development.


Are you a match for us?
Business oriented with a clear customer focus, preferably from automotive
University degree in engineering or equivalent and you have previous leader experience
Holistic view and ability to work cross functionally and build strong relations
Experience from engineering or operations
Ability to recruit and develop effective teams were people take pride in being responsible for their complete deliveries and create a knowledge growing organization

We want to be there for our customers providing uptime and reliability, all over the world every day. Volvo Buses is leading the biggest technology shift in public transport in decades with our electromobility offer. We work with passion, we trust each other and we embrace change to stay ahead. We make our customers win.


For further information please contact:
Mattias Royson, Director Chassis & Driveline Development, phone: +46 73 902 64 74
Sofie Nylander, HR Business partner, phone: +46 73 902 39 90


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