AddressAre you an experienced manager, with experience from the aviation industry?
Do you engage to deliver on promise and contribute to the cooperation between our departments, develop and coach your local team of employees and improve the support to the projects and operations?
Then apply to this challenging and exciting career opportunity!
The organization is well established and includes approximately 300 employees. We are in a growth period which will require challenges in ways of working in order to meet MMS departments mission to deliver top support to our customers.
For us it´s important that you are encouraged to contribute your knowledge in the best possible way and we put a lot of focus on commitment to your mission.
Innovative work and helping each other should incuse our business – Every Day!
Your Role
You will have full managerial responsibility and report to the Head of the Business Unit as well as different projects. As your field of work spans over several areas of our business, you will work closely with both your employees, line managers, project managers and the Business Unit management team.
You will lead a team and take responsibility for delivery and profitability within following main areas:
Component maintenance within own workshops and subcontractors for various helicopters and aircraft
Delivery of new spares and components to Gripen operators
Travel occurs; partly for the purpose of visiting Saab at the other locations and partly for the purpose of visiting customers and suppliers.
Your Profile
Since the organization is in a growth period it requires challenges in ways of working. You need to possess strong understanding of the necessary support within the areas of responsibility and the link to business success.
To demonstrate strategic height is a natural part in your way of working - You can connect the overall business plan objectives and operational goals to challenges in the own organization and from a customer operational point of view.
You express true integrity in your role and you are comfortable in leading as a line manager as well as a functional leader.
Ability to coach and support your employees with good communicative leadership skills is crucial.
You are motivated by the challenge in developing efficient ways-of-working while upholding compliance.
You believe that our behaviors are crucial for our chances to achieve our goals.
To succeed the ideal candidate will have
Good understanding and proven knowledge within aviation authority requirements from EASA, SE-EMAR and Swedish Transport Agency.
Experience with commercial contracts and how to interpret customer requirements.
Previous line management and leadership experience
Experience from and strong drive for change and improvement management.
Drive and passion for our products and services
Knowledge of improvement and analytical tools and methodologies, such as root cause analysis
Strong influencing skills with high levels of engagement
Fluency in both Swedish and English.
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.
What you will be a part of
Behind our innovations stand the people who make them possible. Brave pioneers and curious minds. Everyday heroes and inventive troubleshooters. Those who share deep knowledge and those who explore sky-high. And everyone in between.
Joining us means making an impact together, contributing in our own unique ways. From crafting complex code and building impressive defence and security solutions to simply sharing a coffee with a colleague, every action counts. We encourage you to take on challenges, to create smart inventions and grow in our friendly and tech-savvy workspace. We have a solid mission to keep people and society safe.
Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 22,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.
Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here
