Head of Engineering

Head of Engineering, BU Radar Solutions

At Saab, we are looking for excellent (or world class) leaders who bring out the best in our employees. If you want to be part of leading and contributing to our mission , to develop and improve our high tech portfolio within the radar area and work toward our goal to make people and society safe, then we have the job for you.

You will be part of the business unit Radar Solutions management team and report to Head of Radar Solutions.



Engineering have design responsibility for all levels of subsystems for our radar portfolio, and for antenna and microwave subsystems to all radar and electronic warfare products for business area Surveillance, including support of all phases of delivery in the contracts. Engineering is responsible for deliver in time at agreed cost to our projects, as well as meeting our cost reduction targets for development and manufacturing.



Engineering has around 700 employees in Gothenburg.



Your role and profile

One major challenge for you is to develop the engineering organization together with your management team and staff to becoming an even more efficient and more software-oriented organization.



We believe that you are passionate about fulfilling new needs and delivering outcome to our business stakeholders as well as to our other business areas within Saab.

Your leadership will make a difference and to be successful in this role, we expect you to appreciate the mix of strategic thinking, a desire to keep learning, work agile and being open to change. You get inspired by working both independently and together with your colleges cross functions.



You also need to demonstrate a very strong drive, collaboration skills, commitment, ability to motivate, and enthusiasm your employees. You are a confident communicator leading by values, visions and goals. You believe that our behaviors are crucial for our chances to achieving our goals.

Finally yet importantly, you share and live the Saab culture and values. You are a strong promotor for our culture program; Surveillance Together as One.



This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.



What you will be a part of

Business Area Surveillance provides efficient solutions for safety and security, for surveillance and decision support, and for threat detection and protection. The portfolio covers airborne, ground-based and naval radar, electronic warfare, combat systems and command and control solutions.

Business Unit Radar Solutions is a business unit within Surveillance and has around 1300 employees globally with its headquarter in Gothenburg, Sweden with the largest international sites in USA and UAE. Radar Solutions provides airborne, ground-based and naval radar solutions to the world market.

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If you aspire to help create and innovate whilst developing yourself in a challenging team setting, Saab may well have the perfect conditions for you to grow. We pride ourselves on a nurturing environment, where everyone is different yet we share the same goal - to help protect people.