Program Lead - Digital Machining

At Sandvik, we believe in finding that perfect mix between work, family life and interests, and we happily support our employees in balancing this. For us, it’s also clear that diversity of experience, perspective and background forms an amazing foundation for achieving great results. You work in an agile environment, alongside machining specialists, product owners, software developers, architects, testers, and of course our customers. We take an incremental approach to product development, where user feedback is a key enabler for both speed and ability to deliver the ultimate customer experience. 

As a Program Lead within Digital Machining, you coordinate and synchronize development, evaluation, test and launch phases of multiple products all part of a portfolio that includes both software and hardware components. You own the Release Management Life Cycle and drive its implementation and improvement. This exciting role calls for daily collaboration with those that contribute to ensuring top delivery - such as test managers, agile development teams, offer owners, product owners and IT system owners. 

Your office base is in Stockholm or Sandviken (Sweden) and you report to the R&D Manager for Digital Machining.  
 
Areas of responsibility


Plan and manage the release schedule and main release milestones across our offer 
Identify and report dependencies and risks, and evaluate impact related to planned releases
Communicate plans and key changes to timelines, scope or cost
Coordinate capacity and competence planning with function/competence area managers 
Support cross-portfolio planning to oversee dependencies and solve conflicts
Develop, communicate and maintain a life cycle management plan for products and software components 
Maintain the integrity of system environments by ensuring that release and change processes are followed
Ensure the appropriate levels of documentation for our portfolio of products
Ensure that security and legal compliance requirements are met
Assist configuration management processes to be more reliable, efficient and cost effective
Identify new tools and technologies to develop release streams and builds 
Ensure adequate contracts with vendors to meet the product needs
Establish and maintain relevant and cost-effective SLAs for systems and applications, and implement the Digital Machining support process


Experiences and qualifications

Essential skills: 


Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field 
Minimum of five years’ experience of release management or project management 
Minimum of five years’ experience in software engineering and operations environment
Advanced knowledge of software development life cycles
Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross functional work streams to successful completion 
Excellent leadership, communication and analytical skills 


Beneficial skills: 


Experience from working with engineering and operations of embedded electronic products 
Knowledge and experience of ITIL and Agile
Experience from working with the operations of SaaS products


We evaluate our candidates experiences and testing skills during interviews but we also give personality - like flexible, self-driven, agile, decisive and with a team player attitude - a big weightage. We think it’s time to build teams around these soft skills, while keeping technical competence in mind. Welcome to our exciting world!

How to apply
We have an ongoing process in this recruitment, so please send your application as soon as possible and no later than September 12, 2021. Read more about Sandvik Group and apply at home.sandvik/career, Job ID: R0030137.

Contact information
For more information about this position, please contact:
Tom McLeay, Research and Development Manager Digital Machining, +46 (0)70 616 03 07

Union contacts - Sweden
Thomas Lilja, Unionen, +46 (0)26 266 659   
Göran Norell, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)26 266 574   
Peter Olsson-Andrée, Ledarna, +46 (0)26 261 984  

To learn more about our recruitment process, please contact HR Services, +46 (0)26 261 444.

Recruitment Specialist
Andreas Dahlén