Head of Design & Prototyping - Sandvik Manufacturing Solutions

Are you an entrepreneurial leader with an interest in tech and innovations, and an understanding for the importance of including end-users early in the development process?
We welcome you to a global workplace where we combine innovation, rapid technological advances and digitalization to enhance the resource utilization, safety and sustainability within the manufacturing industry. To reach our goals, we believe in supporting each other, learning together and celebrating differences. Learn more about our purpose here: https://youtu.be/CZBci6jD4L8
To drive user-centered innovation and create new business value across our product portfolio, we’re currently looking for a Head of Design and Prototyping. You’ll join an exciting journey at our fast-growing division Design and Planning Automation, part of Sandvik Manufacturing Solutions (SMF). A great opportunity to shape your own role and grow your career while keeping a healthy balance between work and private life.
Where?
Our main hub is a new and modern office located at Gasverket in Stockholm, but we’re flexible and you can work from anywhere as long it meets our security protocol. Some travelling is included in this role.
Your mission
You play a central role in taking our division forward by leading our Design and Prototyping team on a mission to innovate new autonomous and sustainable manufacturing solutions. Our vision is to combine technology and software to create an incredibly smooth manufacturing chain, where the customer can control and manage their whole process with only a few keystrokes. This journey includes a lot of freedom for you to find innovative solutions with business value and you take part of both research and pre-studies to identify key features that drives our uniqueness.
To reach our goal, many different competences needs to be included, as well as customers and end-users. You balance this by focusing on your team and their needs, while keeping a transparent and collaborative approach towards other teams and stakeholders – shifting between a helicopter view and hands-on technical focus. Together with your team, you take the responsibility for our future integrated architecture – prototyping and experimenting to make sure that we are in the forefront of tomorrows’ manufacturing as well promoting integrated new product features. You also support in targeting M&A opportunities to further accelerate our vision.
Who you are
Although experience of similar projects – especially touching manufacturing, AI, UX and automation – are very useful in this role, your personality is you most important asset here. With curiosity, transparency, and great communication skills, you confidently influence and build great collaborations between various teams and stakeholders within our growing organization. You have great help by your interest in tech and the manufacturing industry, as well as your dynamic, doers’ mentality.
Solid skills within team development combined with a dose of creativity and the ability to listen and understand customer problems are also key qualities. Add an understanding of manufacturing software (e.g. Scada, PLC, CAM), cloud technology, IoT/OT capabilities and data acquisition, software delivery – and we have a perfect match. We look forward to your application!
How to apply
Read more about Sandvik Group and apply at home.sandvik/career (Job ID: R0032660), no later than October 11, 2021. As we aim for an open and fair recruitment process, we utilize assessment tools to safeguard objectivity. As a first step, you’ll therefore be asked to take a personality and logic test after the last application date. If you have any questions regarding the test, please reach out to recruitment.nordics@sandvik.com.
Our Sandvik culture 
Sandvik is a high-tech and global engineering group, rapidly developing into new, digital offerings. We believe in a collaborative and inclusive culture, where innovations are part of everyday life. And for us, it’s clear that our diversities form a solid foundation for achieving great results. Learn more about us by visiting or website, LinkedIn or Facebook. 
Any questions?
For further information about this position, please contact the recruiting manager:
Magnus A Malmström, CTO, +46 (0)70 214 88 32
Union contacts - Sweden
Thomas Lilja, Unionen, +46 (0)70 261 04 82    
Kerstin Norlén, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)70 616 42 83     
Peter Olsson-André, Ledarna, +46 (0)26 261 984 

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact HR Services, +46 (0)26 261 444.
Recruitment Specialist
Andreas Dahlén

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