Manager Qualification and integration

What you will be part of

Electronic Warfare and Aircraft Systems (EWAS) is a business unit within the business area Surveillance. The part located in Huskvarna focuses on safety critical aircraft systems for both civilian and military aircraft.

Safety Critical Engineering is a part of the Engineering organization. The Department is responsible for engineering competences and have about 110 employees in a variety of areas, Software, Electronics, Power and PLD, Test Equipment, Qualification and Verification, Team management, Systems Engineering, Mechanics, ILS and System Safety. Other areas of responsibility are the Systems Development Processes, Methods and Tools (PM&T) where we have demanding requirements of cost-efficient and competitive development of high quality, safety critical applications.

Your skills and experience:

* Appropriate professional or postgraduate qualification in a relevant technical discipline.
* Strong business understanding and customer focus.
* Understanding and ability to work in an international environment and matrix organization.
* Skills to combine strategic thinking with operational actions.
* Proven ability and interest in leading, developing and challenging the organization, management teams and employees.
* Strong drive, perseverance and ability to generate energy.


We envision a management team where each member contributes with their individual experiences and skills to create an effective and dynamic environment.

We are looking for a person with excellent leadership skills and with the ability

to empower employees. As a manager you will demonstrate communicative leadership skills in order to create commitment and energy within the organization. Your ability to establish a performance driven culture within your unit will be of outmost importance.

Your role

As Manager for Qualification and Integration within Engineering, your main tasks will be to manage competence development and resources within environmental qualification, systems integration, design test and system verification.

Process management, methods and tools for qualification and integration including adaptations for projects as well as to drive improvements, e.g. way-of-working and cost effectiveness will be within your responsibility. You will have close collaboration with the Project Managers, Manager for Electronic HW, the Manager for Systems Engineering among others.

It is expected that you get involved in the business and help our projects to succeed. This will be done by e.g. matching the right profile and competence to the project needs, be part of quotes, meeting the customer, supporting the project in process tailoring, coach and support the project members within your domain and improving ways of working. You will have a close collaboration with other Engineering Managers, Product Managers and Project Managers among others.

The group consists of 8 employees with different areas of expertise. The group members spend most of their time working in our projects and you as the line manager have an important part in giving the group a sense of belonging, spreading experience and coach the employees.

Examples of responsibilities for the group:

* Environmental Qualification (Temperature, vibration, EMI etc according to DO-160 Standad)
* Design tests (Mechanical endurance and life time tests, HALT/HASS etc)
* System integration ( integration of functionality between different components of a system HW/SW)


You will report to the Head of Safety Critical Engineering and be a member of the Safety Critical Engineering Management Team.

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.

Saab AB

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Observe that you can send us your application in either Swedish or English. Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.

Saab is a company with a strong people-orientation. We offer a friendly work environment where we support and help each other to be at our best. Continuous learning, career & talent development and employee well-being are examples of areas where we always put the strongest effort to offer great opportunities.