We are looking for a visionary Quality Director with resilience and self-motivation to Saabs Business Area Kockums. You will have overall responsibility for Quality activities and continuously drive our company towards quality excellence. This is a new role and a fantastic as well as unique opportunity in the quality area where you get to be part of setting up a completely new concept!
Your role
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We are looking for a visionary Quality Director with resilience and self-motivation to Saabs Business Area Kockums. You will have overall responsibility for Quality activities and continuously drive our company towards quality excellence. This is a new role and a fantastic as well as unique opportunity in the quality area where you get to be part of setting up a completely new concept!
Your role
As Quality Director, you will lead, manage, and inspire teams in creating and delivering excellent quality products as well as be directly involved in solving challenging technical problems. You will be responsible for maintaining our licenses according to ISO standards and other regulations as well as contribute to core product strategy. You will be an important part of our managing team within Operations as well the extended management team within Saab Kockums.
Main tasks:
* Create and implement best practice quality vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures.
* Evaluate the challenges faced by the business and take action to mitigate risks and develop opportunities.
* Coordinate activities related to external and internal quality audits.
* Provide leadership to departments under their control and coach, mentor and develop quality managers and manage a high performing team in different departments towards quality excellence.
* In cooperation with line management, identify training needs, organize and deliver training programs related to quality matters.
* Establish contacts with similar functions in Saab group, contributing to and utilizing synergies and best practices
* Establish and maintain relationship with authorities, institutions and other relevant to
quality management actors in Sweden
* Manage performance firmly and fairly in a supportive manner and inspiring and motivating teams.
You report to COO and will work from one of our centrally and coastal offices in Malmö or Karlskrona. Frequent travels between our offices is part of the job.
Would you like to know more about the Saab-life and the benefits of joining us? Read our People Philosophy.
Your profile
We are looking for you who have solid knowledge and a broad experience with in Quality Management. To succeed in this role, you need to be results-oriented and driven by the challenge of finding the way forward with in the field of quality. You need the ability to be clear, forward-looking and finding solutions based on a holistic view of the company. A structured way and a systematic approach will come in handy. We believe you work on the basis of facts and analysis as a basis for driving the development, but also have the creativity to find new ways and solutions. The role include many contacts and stakeholders and in order to be able to get people in board and follow your vision and mission, you need strong communication skills and the ability to build solid long lasting relations and networks.
Required skills:
* Considerable and diverse demonstrable experience of leading a quality function with a proven track record in strategic quality leadership.
* Proven project management and quality experience.
* Experience from carrying out external and internal audits
* Knowledge and technical understanding of regulated industry processes, components and manufacturing techniques skills and attributes.
* Excellent relationship management skills with the ability to engage, negotiate and manage key stakeholders and suppliers
* Excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills
* Bachelor of Science in Engineering or equivalent experience, as well as a few years' relevant experience.
* Excellent communication skills in Swedish and English, verbal and written
Desired skills:
* Technical interest and experience from working in larger global companies with above mentioned tasks.
This position requires that you will be approved in a security screening in accordance with the Swedish Protective Security Act.
What you will be a part of
This is a new role and we are super excited over welcoming you to our crew! You report to COO, Ulf Björkman. With several years at Saab he is a manager with solid experience and ability to support you when needed. Although new at BA Kockums, he is eager and excited to get his team up and running so you together can strive to meet our goals and reach success. As mentioned, you will be part of our managing team where we have quite a new set up. With your knowledge and expertise you will have an important role to play in helping us achieve excellence. Saabs vision is that it is a human right to feel safe. We do this by pushing intellectual and technological boundaries and we hope you will join us in this strive.
If you are interested in what benefits you can take part of as an employee at Saab in Sweden, you can read more about them here.
Last application date is 10th of January, however kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement. Your application may be in Swedish or English.
Questions about the job? Don´t hesitate to contact;
Ulf Björkman, recruiting manager +46 734 37 90 25 or Charlotta Lundblad, HR Specialist Recruitment +46 734 34 12 74.
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