Project Manager

Do you want to work as a leader in a company that develop systems to help bring People and Airborne platforms safely home in support of their primary mission to keep people and society safe?

We are looking for Project Managers to manage our Customer Projects within the Aircraft Systems domain. Our Project Managers have the key role to lead the project teams and be our representative towards our customers. As we see a fast growing interest in our products, we need to increase our Project Management Team.

Your role

As a Project Manager you have the full responsibility for executing our customer projects including product development, production and support. Our customers include various international System Integrators and Aircraft OEMs.

The successful candidate for this interesting and challenging position will be responsible for:

* Management of Project activities, including project finances and handling of contract scope
* Lead and support the project sub-teams in a communicative and motivating way
* Develop and maintain a project management plan and aggregate project plans
* Satisfy contract execution objectives, utilizing resources effectively over the full lifecycle.
* Contribute towards the improvement and conformity against laid down norms and standards
* Risk and Opportunity identification, assessment and mitigation
* Reporting project status to the Project Steering Committee

Your Profile

This opportunity requires a highly motivated team player with excellent management and leadership skills, organizational skills, initiative and interpersonal skills as well as a relentless drive to ensure customer commitments are kept.

You have an appropriate professional or postgraduate qualification in a business or technical oriented area (B.Sc. / M.Sc.) and several years of project management experience from product development projects.

You have a strong business understanding, customer focus and ability to work in an international environment. Further, you have proven ability to take decisions to improve profitability and project execution for the total product lifecycle, and have an interest in leading, developing and challenging the organization and its employees. You have skills to combine strategic thinking with operational actions.

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement. Last application: 13th of May. Observe that you can send us your application in either Swedish or English.

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

Saab Product Unit Countermeasures and Aircraft Systems forms part of Saab Surveillance and develops and manufactures qualified Electronics, Mechanics and Software for various Aircraft and Helicopter applications worldwide.

Our task within Aircraft systems domain is to give the Aerospace industry the systems they need to meet the challenges of safe, sustainable and efficient Aviation. We develop safety critical Aircraft- and Avionics-Systems such as Tactical Mission System, Safety and Awareness Systems and Counter Measure Systems for Aircraft, Helicopters and Drones.

This position is within the Contracts and Projects Departments at the Saab Järfälla office.

Welcome with your application.

If you aspire to help create and innovate whilst developing yourself in a learning culture, 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 keep people and society safe.