Quality Director Business Unit Submarines

Within Saab Kockums, we are committed to our responsibility towards our customers, contributing to keeping people and society safe. We are also passionate about working together to create submarines and services at the technology forefront that our customer's need.

We are looking for a Quality Director for Saab Kockums Business Unit Submarines. You will be part of the business units management team and have an overall responsibility for quality and associated activities and continuously drive our business and operations towards quality excellence.

Your role

You will lead, manage and develop the business unit's quality function. Beyond this you will take an important role to inspire teams across the business unit organization as well as other parts of the Kockums organization in creating and delivering excellent quality submarines and related products and services. You will be responsible for maintaining and developing processes and licenses in cooperation with other parts of the organization.

Main tasks:

* Manage and develop the quality function. The quality function is under development and there are great opportunities for setting good standards for future operations.
* Coordinate the quality work within the business unit and other stakeholders to ensure that each part of the organization are reaching necessary quality standards ensuring high quality products for our customers.
* Collaborate with the quality functions of our customers, playing a significant role in our efforts to enhance customer satisfaction.
* Support and coordinate the development of processes, methods and tools across the organization to drive continuous improvement.



Your Profile

You have a good understanding and experience of Quality Management as well as development and production of complex products. You are an experienced leader, great at connecting, collaborating, and building relationships that stick. In order to succeed you need to have a pro-active mindset and as a person you are engaged in your responsibilities with the drive to reach desired results. In addition, you consider yourself to be business driven and engaged in continuous improvements and learning in our operations by creating engagement and inspiring teams.

Required skills:

* Experience in Quality Management in larger organizations for development and production of complex products.
* Proven leadership skills managing teams within and outside your own organization.
* Excellent ability to build and manage relationships, and cooperate and engaging internal or external teams and stakeholders.
* Excellent communication skills in Swedish and English, verbal and written
* Experience from carrying out external and internal audits
* Knowledge and understanding of regulated processes for high quality products with high safety standards.

Desired skills:

* Experience in Naval shipbuilding.

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.

You report to Head of Business Unit Submarines and will work from one of our offices in Malmö or Karlskrona. Frequent traveling between our offices is part of the job.

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.

What you will be part of:

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe.

Empowered by its 19,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer, more sustainable and more equitable world. Read more about us here

Saab Business Area Kockums have profound experience of developing highly advanced vessels and platforms for the maritime domain. On the surface and below.

With unique competences and some of the world's most modern shipyards, Kockums is a world leader in development, construction, mid-life upgrades and in-service support of submarines, surface vessels and naval systems.

The product portfolio gives our customers capabilities for reconnaissance, surface combat, anti-submarine warfare, seabed operations, mine counter measure or patrol missions. Versatility, modularity and availability are key words for all Kockums products.

Saab is a company with a strong people-orientation. We offer a friendly work environment where we support and help each other to be at our best. Continuous learning, career & talent development and employee well-being are examples of areas where we always put the strongest effort to offer great opportunities.