Senior Component Owner Switches & Stalks

Senior Component Owner Switches & Stalks
Are you an experienced and curious Electrical & Electronics engineer with a passion for technical solutions? Do you like understanding and exploring new domains in product development and sharing your passion with your colleagues? Good, then continue reading, we have an opportunity for you.


What kind of challenge you might wonder?
The wind is changing within the automotive industry and current digital and connected solutions are constantly challenging us in how we develop and sell our products. It also pushes us to explore what’s outside of that comfortable and famous “box” in order to find solutions and opportunities that will shape the future of public transportation.
And it is in the middle of all this that Volvo Buses needs you. You, who are creative, driven and can lead and guide this development from the driver’s seat through collaboration, enthusiasm and passion.


This is us, your new colleagues
Our team currently consists of 20 engineers with different professional backgrounds, interests and history but with one common mindset: To develop our products and ourselves! With the sea as our closest neighbour, where a lunch walk along the seaside in Arendal is an energy boosting and relaxing activity, we gather every day to secure the quality and competitiveness of our products in a fast-evolving business.
In our group, we focus on the development of Vehicle Connectivity and Driver Environment. Having a global responsibility, the solutions developed within the team can be found in Volvo buses all over the world helping millions of people every day to reach their destination. Imagine that as a legacy!
In our global responsibility, we cooperate with our sites in Poland, Mexico and Brazil, as well as with our Volvo-owned brands Prevost and Nova in North America. Together, we secure knowledge transfer and competence development in an effort to become an even higher performing team consisting of highly passionate people.


What can we offer?
You will be a part of the Vehicle Connectivity & Driver Environment group within the Electrical & Software Architecture Department. You will play an important role in a competence area that is providing Switches & Stalks and Steering wheel into the product development. Together you are responsible for the complete driver environment.
You will lead discussions with internal and external suppliers and Secure strategy compliance, quality and requirement fulfillment before releases. Be part of developing the roadmap and setting the strategy for the competence area
You will work in an agile/lean way, where you will be a member of a high performing cross functional team that will work closely together with different stakeholders within AB Volvo to achieve our Driver Environment targets.


And this is you
Becoming part of our team is easy. You just need to be a skilled team player with excellent communication and collaboration skills and to be genuinely interested in product development.
BSc or MSc degree in Electrical/Mechatronic or equivalent is highly valuable as well as previous experience of component design. Previous experience and/or network from AB Volvo are considered as meritorious.
Since you have good engineering judgment and priorities, you have the ability and interest to technically support and challenge colleagues in their work and their mindset. You like to share your passion for technical solutions, and you have strong analytical and problem-solving skills. As a person you are positive, you display driving force, have a structured way of working and are eager to learn new skills and driven by self-development.


Are we the perfect match?
So how does this sound? Are you prepared to join us at Volvo Buses and be part of the company’s future? Why not pay us a visit here in Arendal for a coffee, a chat or maybe a walk along the seaside to discuss more what we can offer you!
For further information about the position, please contact Group Manager Linda Frank phone +46 739 02 76 97


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