Program Quality Manager

The Quality Management team within Business Unit Missile Systems is growing and are looking for one additional Program Quality Manager to join our dedicated team. Do you wish to work in close cooperation with our colleagues in operations as well as in the BU to ensure Quality Assurance as well as fulfilment of contract requirements for deliveries to our customers? Do you want to join a team of professional colleagues working with quality close to the business and the customer? Then apply to this exciting career opportunity!

Your role

The Program Quality Manager has the overall responsibility to ensure contractual delivery fulfillment towards our customers and is the focal point within the Business Unit in all quality aspects. The goal is to ensure quality in every step of program/project execution in order to deliver products and services with the right quality in the right time.

The main tasks are:

* Planning, execution and monitoring of relevant quality efforts within the customer contracts in order to enable future deliveries
* Approve, or if necessary reject, deliveries to customer
* Participation in contract reviews and design reviews
* Identification and definition of preventive and corrective actions
* Support Product owners in quality related matters

Depending on earlier experiences the role may also include:

* Drive operational excellence together with; Program Managers, Product Managers and Operations (i.e. Design, Procurement, Production)
* Support risk management and planning of contract execution, especially in large and/or complex contracts
* General Quality system work such as for instance internal audits.

The Program Quality Manager is part of a Program/Project team, which is adjusted according to contractual magnitude and/or complexity. A close relation to the Program Manager within the Business Unit is always applicable but work content may vary depending on program phase and/or other conditions or requirements.

Your profile

We think that you have a well-developed drive and integrity in order to fulfil the role as Program Quality Manager since some situations may be challenging. To drive quality initiatives also require you to take initiative and define required actions towards our desired position.

Quality is something that applies to all and the Program Quality Manager is the natural leader of such work, hence it is essential that you have developed a managerial register that can support execution of defined activities together with the applicable personnel.

Required skills:

* Bachelor or Master Degree in engineering or other relevant College education
* Minimum five years of relevant industry experience associated with quality
* Managerial experience and ability to connect to people internally but also with customers and suppliers
* Excellent communication skills in English, verbal and written
* Driving license, ability and will to travel both domestic and international travels
* Interest in operational excellence and developing organizations

Desired skills:

* Experience in Risk Management and Planning
* Experience from defense industry in corresponding or similar role
* Experience from development environment and processes
* International experience
* A well-developed business perspective
* Experience in translating requirements to activities
* Audit experience and/or experience from improvement work

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

You will work with experienced professionals in an environment that depends on the necessity of strategic improvement due to expansive times with challenging conditions. You will be part of the Quality Management team within Business Unit Missiles Systems located both in Linköping and Karlskoga. Business Unit Missile Systems is one of six Business Units within the Business Area Dynamcis.

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Last application day is 2022-01-09. Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement. You can send your application in either Swedish or English.

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