Group Manager Powertrain, Electrical & Connectivity Quality

"Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to driving prosperity and shaping the future landscape through sustainable transport, mobility, and infrastructure solutions. By offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity.

Our headquarters are in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Group shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm."

Do you know how to quickly solve product problem for sustainable people transport solutions? If you also have a passion for safety, people and customer quality, this role Group Manager Powertrain, Electrical & Connectivity Quality is a great opportunity for you!

In this role you will be part of Volvo Buses great journey to provide sustainable people transport solutions. The position is in Global Bus Technology (R&D) organization and part of the Customer Quality Experience function. We develop new products and support our customers globally. 

The role
Volvo Buses is now seeking an experienced leader with engineering background who sees that the key to success is to develop the organization and its people to meet future business challenges. 

The group, with right now about ten project leaders and engineers with different skills, is responsible for the improvement of our products to solve our customer product problems. The project leaders, called Quality Solution Leaders work with either our colleges at Group Trucks Technology Powertrain Engineering or our internal team with engineers. The engineers work in one agile team to solve quality issues on our electrical system and connectivity system. The engineers do also work with colleges from several different functions such as engineering, production, purchasing and service. One member of the team is our lead for Manufacturing Product Issues and solves engineering problems on the product for our plants. 

As manager of this team you will define, agree, communicate, and execute strategies and targets for the group. Your key contribution is to develop your employees to reach their full potential and be passionate employees.  Together with the team make lessons learned for our organization assuring excellent knowledge creation. You will have customer interaction to learn more about how we can develop our products to make them more successful. 

Who are you?

We are seeking a passionate individual who is dedicated to developing people, lean product development, and enhancing product performance. We value individuals who are eager to learn and take ownership of their own professional growth. As an experienced leader, you will play a crucial role in fostering the development of our team members to improve our competitiveness. 

We are looking for someone who is a true believer in this continues improvement and has a proven track record of utilizing new technologies to enhance product development. Your ability to lead and inspire will be instrumental in driving our organization towards our target image. Together with your peers, you will consistently deliver exceptional performance. Cooperation with other organizations is crucial in this role since the delivery often is heavily dependent on other organizations ability. A degree in engineering and fluency in English are essential qualifications for this role.

If you see yourself reflected in the above description and are ready to embrace new opportunities for learning and growth, we encourage you to submit your application without hesitation. Last application date is 19th of September. 

For more questions, please contact:
Tobias Holmqvist, Vice President Customer Quality Experience: +46 7390 272 11
Sandra Sjöholm, People & Culture Manager: +46 31 3238700




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Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, across the globe, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment, financial services, and solutions make modern life possible. We are almost 100,000 people empowered to shape the future landscape of efficient, safe and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents with sharp minds and passion across the group’s leading brands and entities. 

At Volvo Buses you join one of the world’s leading providers of sustainable people transport solutions. What we do affects millions of people around the world: passengers, drivers, customers; in fact, entire cities and countries. This job gives you the opportunity to work with the future of people transportation and infrastructure. We have a strong culture of working together to help each other, sharing knowledge and experience. Together, we shape the world we want to live in.