Team Manager - MES Applications Support & Engineering i Göteborg

Want to drive digital change in automotive?

At Volvo Cars, we are making bold digital visions come true. We aim to lead in the automotive world by creating a digital ecosystem built around making our customers' lives less complicated. Now we are looking for curious, creative people who want to change the world through innovative thinking.

What’s in it for you? 
Would you like to be a leader in an amazing organization serving one of the core areas of the Volvo Cars business? Do you want to be a part of our transformation? 

As Team manager for the application team you will play a key role in transforming our organization to become fully aligned with the needs of our internal customer: the VCT plant when it comes to IT support for our critical locally used applications.

You will join the Volvo Cars Manufacturing Digital team and will be based in our plant in Torslanda, Gothenburg. Our team is consisting of colleagues in several roles, who are globally located and have a global manufacturing digital responsibility. 
  
What you’ll do. 
Amongst other things:

You will have people responsibility:

• Lead and develop a team of hardworking engineers through, servant leadership, hiring, mentoring, continuously inspiring and providing feedback. 
• You are the people manager for the team and responsible for all HR employee related processes (e.g. salary setting, appraisals, goal setting)
• Recruit highly skilled individuals in line with identified competence needs. 
• Ensure, through streamlined execution and experimentation, that our solutions meet the needs of our customers quickly and accurately with a focus on stable operations and adequate support.

Enable execution and alignment:

• Sit in the center of the team and drive the execution and secure we have a high motivated team that feel a joint responsibility for what we deliver. 
• You support the team in defining the working methodology / ways of working.
• Listen closely to, identify and solve escalated team impediments with main attention on flow and escalate when needed.
• Have a business perspective and together with your peers from infrastructure and factory support, take ownership to deliver on our transformation journey. 
• Collaborate with other team and engineering leaders across the organization (both Application Team Managers from the other plants as well as product team engineering Managers).

Guide technically:

• You align with the architecture team to understand the overall technology strategy of the company. You support and are a stakeholder of the technology roadmap for the area.
• You actively participate in technical discussions to stay updated in your technology domain to guide and coach your team.

Currently we are in the middle of moving from VCT-unique applications into global, common solutions. Leading the team to finalize this initiative will be one of the main initial focus areas.

 
Do you fit the profile? 

To be successful in this role we believe you will have:

• Experience from working with Level-2 support tasks in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with Agile ways of working in a global context.
• Experience with Leadership of local and global teams of people working in different locations. 
• Experience as a servant leader and lead by example.
• Experience with mentoring and coaching as well as capacity to create an environment that fosters high performance teams.
• Technical experience / knowledge with databases, SW development platforms, frameworks such as: Java, Azure cloud, OpenShift - Spring, Spring boot,WebFlux - MQ, Kafka)
• Fluent in both English and Swedish

We also believe being passionate about developing, leading and inspiring people as well as technology is important for success in this role. We expect our leaders to be culture and people driven with a team before me mind-set. For Volvo Cars diversity is a key to success so our leaders champion diversity within their teams.

How to learn more and apply
Does this sound like your next challenge? Welcome with your application by submitting your resume via the link below. Incoming applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, so please apply as soon as possible.
For questions about the position please contact hiring manager Filip Bollaert at filip.bollaert@volvocars.com. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact senior tech recruiter Matias Melake Kauppinen at matias.kauppinen@volvocars.com. Please note that applications via email will not be accepted.
 

Who are we?

Everything we do starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones and the people around them. 

Volvo Cars’ continued success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. The people of Volvo Cars are committed to making a difference in our world. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 40,000 employees across the globe. We believe in bringing out the best in each other and harnessing the true power of people. At Volvo Cars your career is designed around your talents and aspirations so you can reach your full potential. Join us on a journey of a lifetime as we create safety, autonomous driving and electrification technologies of tomorrow.