Technology Manager

Do you want to be part of something new and exciting, where innovative thinking and bold ideas are taking our Rock Tools Services into the next era? At Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions (SMR), we’re proud of our brilliant minds who are working together and creating innovations that our customers only thought they could dream about.
We’re now looking for a strategic and inspiring Technology Manager to join our production unit in Sandviken. Are you outgoing and have a long-term approach to all things professional and personal? Then join us in this exciting opportunity!

About the job
In this position, your main operational focus is to ensure the efficiency of the production units’ machine park – you establish a forward-thinking, efficient and profitable organization, and you have a competent team of specialists within the fields of maintenance, machine technology, projects, methods and and production IT to support you. You bring us towards a strong future by holistically ensuring optimized and modern ways of working in line with our safety-first objectives, looking at the benefits of digitalization and technical tools, as well as using the principles of LEAN Manufacturing. You also help to set the overall production support strategy, follow-up on cost and budgeting, and work on continuously improving efficiency as well as process stability.
You’re accountable for daily operations within your area, overall department results, long-term maintenance, finances and performance management, and you make sure we have the right prerequisites to work with a structured and proactive approach – focusing on equipment availability, work environment and sustainability. This means setting our strategies, forming roadmaps and driving activities based on divisional strategies and plans. Furthermore, you work alongside a handful of internal stakeholder groups with investment opportunities, futureproofing, problem-solving, and long-term strategy planning.
You’re a valued member of the management team for our production site in Sandviken, and this is also where you need to have physical presence at.

Your Profile
We’re looking for someone with a relevant engineering degree as well as extensive work experience from similar leadership positions involving areas of strategic and operational responsibility. You're familiar with navigating in Office 365, doing verbal presentations, and have documented experience from leadership training, occupational health and safety training as well as fire safety training. Since we act on a global scene, you’re fluent in English, in both written and verbal form. Knowing Swedish is also advantageous.
Your personality is of utmost importance to us – you’re analytical, pedagogical and an all-around leader with the ability of coaching and delegating, whilst simultaneously striving for healthy and mutual collaborations. You’re result-oriented and have a knack for efficiently conveying information in a communicative and supportive way. You like change, and see that projects and initiatives are sufficiently met when it comes to your ability to strategize ahead of time.
All in all, this is a position where you need to balance creative and progressive solutions with structured and decisive decision-making – both through independent and collaborative standpoints.

Intrigued? Check out our exciting world! 
Rock Tools delivers advanced products and solutions for the mining and construction industries, and we serve customers across all continents. We’re tech driven, innovative and entrepreneurial, and we believe that success is a team effort so we value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where people can be themselves and reach their full potential. We also give you the freedom to find that perfect mix between work, family life and interests. Visit our website, LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us further. 

How to apply?
We have an ongoing process in this recruitment, so please send your application as soon as possible and no later than October 16, 2022. Read more about Sandvik Group and apply at home.sandvik/career (Job ID: R0046622).
As we aim for an open and fair recruitment process, we utilize assessment tools to safeguard objectivity. When you apply for this job, you’ll therefore get an invitation to a personality and logic ability test. The invitation will come via email directly after you apply, and you’ll receive feedback on the test directly after the application deadline.

Contact us
Are you interested in learning more about this exciting position? Please contact the recruiting manager:
Jacobus Lucas Steyn, Head of Production Units Sweden, +46 (0)70 615 29 07

Union contacts - Sweden
Per Hedman, Unionen, +46 (0)26 265 014 
Rickard Andreasson, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)26 265 183 
Linda Adamsson, Ledarna, +46 (0)26 261 601

For more information about our recruitment process, please contact HR Services, +46 (0)26 261 444.

Recruitment Specialist
Lisbeth Häggström
Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is a business area within the Sandvik Group and a global leading supplier of equipment and tools, parts, service, digital solutions and sustainability-driving technologies for the mining and construction industries. Application areas include rock drilling, rock cutting, loading and hauling, tunneling and quarrying. In 2021, sales were approximately 41 billion SEK with about 15,600 employees.