Senior Project Manager Engineering at Volvo Energy

"Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to driving prosperity and shaping the future landscape through sustainable transport, mobility, and infrastructure solutions. By offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity.

Our headquarters are in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Group shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm."

We shape the world we want to live in!

Volvo Energy is our newest business area with the overarching purpose of supporting the Volvo Group’s transformation ambitions within electrification, sustainability, circularity, complete service offer, profitable growth and resilience. 

Being part of Battery Optimization and Monitoring - Technology
Battery Optimization and Monitoring – Technology is a function within Volvo Energy that works with second life applications of vehicle battery packs, monitoring and data analytics, optimization of remaining useful life, battery safety and new offerings for stationary Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS).

Working in very close cooperation with our colleagues from Volvo Group and especially Group Trucks Technology, we create new business offer opportunities as well as value propositions.  

What are we looking for in this specific role?
We are currently seeking a Senior Project Manager Engineering to join our team, poised to lead end-to-end product development projects of our Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). As a driving force in our team, you’ll take ownership from project initiation, concept generation, concept development, to industrialization and product release. Your expertise will be the compass guiding our product development projects from start to finish. 

Your starting point will be to:
• Monitoring progress and performance against the project plan and taking action to resolve operational problems and minimize delays
• Identifying, developing, and gathering resources necessary to complete product development projects
• Develop and prepare engineering standards, designs and work specifications, project schedules, budgets and forecasts as well as the selection of materials, equipment, project staff and external contractors. 
• Support the team on how to apply Project Management expertise skills. 
• Working closely with internal and external product engineers to offer support to cross-functional teams.  
• Serving as a key resource for addressing product/design/solution related issues that may arise during the project lifecycle. 
• Taking ownership of driving the product lifecycle development, including design reviews, to ensure the seamless progression of development activities.

Working at Volvo Energy is different  

Welcome to a close-knit team! 

We see ourselves as a fast-paced company within the Volvo Group, supported by our many great colleagues, we have the best of both worlds! We believe that work should be fun, stimulating, challenging and rewarding, but also have a meaning and a purpose to the individual. Trust and Results are two guiding principles for how we work together, and we are here to make a difference!    

We will be a fairly small team that will grow with the business and therefore look for colleagues that thoroughly enjoy this entrepreneurial challenge, can hit the ground running and lead with passion, perform with purpose and transform with vision. Moreover, it will be essential you have a strong ability to form trustful relationships to effectively work with partners - inside and outside of the Volvo Group – in a cross-functional manner.  

What are the qualifications likely required to be successful?
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical, mechanical, mechatronics or renewable engineering, or equivalent. 
• Significant experience in a technical project management role within the automotive or energy industries 
• Proven experience in managing the complete development cycle of a product, from requirements generation and initial concept through to verification, validation, certification, and final release. 
• Experience from technical roles (e.g. electrical, mechanical, thermal design, system engineer, etc.) in product development efforts for stationary energy storage systems, power systems, or renewable energy projects is considered a major plus. 
• Fluent in English for effective communication within the team and with external stakeholders. 

So you want to apply? 

Feel free to contact me if you have further questions
Roeland Bisschop, Head of Product Development (acting), e-mail: roeland.bisschop@volvo.com