Project Manager

Would you like to work in a global company and be part of its success? Sandvik Coromant offers an environment where your ideas are encouraged and you have a number of opportunities to develop. We are looking for talented people who would like to extend their professional and educational potential. If you have the skills, we will give you the opportunities to utilize them.

You will discover a creative and international environment where the work is done in a modern and innovative way. The organization is dynamic, with a variety of people and ideas. The mix of backgrounds, competencies and experience makes for a creative and exciting work environment, with opportunities for personal development in many competency areas.

We are now looking for a Project Manager within R&D, in Halmstad.

Key performance areas
As a Project Manager within R&D you will lead the development of our new and existing products for metal cutting. Our products are created in teams with participants from product management, marketing, production and development. The team is responsible for the whole chain, from idea to launched product, and is a vital part in ensuring our customers' future success. Within the team, you are responsible for running the product/knowledge projects.

In this position you will:
- Manage our product and knowledge development projects in accordance with our standard procedures
- Organize projects and distribute the responsibility and work within the team
- Document work progress and report back to steering groups
- Build networks with production units, sales units, customers and universities
- Work more directly with product and/or knowledge development depending on your background

The position involves some traveling (1-5 weeks/year).

Your profile
We are looking for someone with a degree in Engineering and a few years of relevant work experience. Experience from metal cutting, product development and leading projects is advantageous. As the work involves frequent international contacts, English is required.

As a person you are committed and have a structured and analytical way of working. You have strong quality consciousness and the ambition to deliver results. Since our projects involve different parts of the organization, there are many stakeholders involved, and you need to have the ability to coordinate among them. You also have a relaxed manner of communicating with peers on all levels, and are interested in motivating people. Further, to be successful in this role you must be open to change and enthusiastic about being involved in and influencing the department's development. It is also very important that you are flexible and have the ability to take initiative.

We actively work to create a workplace that is characterized by diversity and inclusion.

Contact information
For further information about this position, please contact:
Björn Håkansson, recruiting manager, +46 (0)35 165262
Marianne van Kuijl, HR Advisor, +46(0)26 264 811

Union contacts
Håkan Persson, Sveriges Ingenjörer, +46(0)35 165 218
Magnus Oknestam, Sveriges Ingenjörer, +46(0)35 165 280

Please send in your application as soon as possible, but no later than April 9 2014, as selections are made on an ongoing basis. Read more about Sandvik and apply at www.sandvik.com/career, Job ID: 330011.

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact HRdirect, +46 (0)26 261 440.