Group Manager, Geometry Architecture

To be a good match we think that you also have

Experience in Geometry architecture & packaging and preferably from automotive industry

Experience from leader positions is an advantage

Experience from working in Catia V5

University/Master’s degree in engineering or equivalent

Fluent in English and Swedish, spoken and written Are you a coaching leader with a passion for developing people, operations and products? Do you thrive in leading change in an environment where we strive to develop a world with improved infrastructures?

Volvo Buses is now seeking a Group Manager for Geometry Architecture within Chassis and Driveline department. The Chassis and Driveline department are responsible to develop robust concepts and verified and validated solutions meeting customer needs together with other development areas. The Geometry architecture team is part of Platform Development which is a function within Global Product Development (GPD) at Volvo Buses. GPD are responsible for developing platform solutions within the areas of Chassis, Body in white, Body, Powertrain and Electrical & Software architecture. The main sites are located in Sweden and Brazil.

Geometry architecture is responsible lead the geometrical studies for complete vehicle projects.

The size of the team is 5 Geometry architects. In this position you will work as an operational group manager, meaning that you will also act as a Geometry Architect apart from leading and coaching the team. In this position you will be part of the Chassis and Driveline management team and report to Chassis and Driveline Department manager. The team is a mix of competences and experiences with a high engagement.

At your job you will

One main challenge for the team is to develop and implement the strategies and execution securing our geometrical architecture to be able to meet future challenges within the area of Modularization & geometry assurance. Therefore, it’s important that you like to start up and engage, but also drive changes and implementations all the way to the end destination. Your main task over time is to develop the team and the individuals to support challenges contributing to our future technology target image.

One important function as a group manager is also to define, agree, communicate and execute on strategies and targets for the team and the department together with the management team of Chassis and Driveline. You will be one of the main contributors to build and execute the roadmap for product commonality and modularization.

We are currently on a change journey to implement Lean@VBC with the focus to strengthening the engineering voice by actively work to understand customer needs and usage where we grow and share knowledge amongst each other. We are taking responsibility for the full delivery and are adaptive for the world around us.

Diversity is very important for us at Volvo Buses, therefore we strongly encourage women to apply to this position. Are you a person that sees challenges as positive and is ready to take some actions? Then we are hoping to hear from you!

For further information please contact

Mattias Royson, Hiring Manager, phone: +46 31 3226474

Sandra Sjöholm, HR Business partner, phone: +46 76 5538700 The Volvo Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment and marine and industrial engines under the leading brands Volvo, Renault Trucks, Mack, UD Trucks, Eicher, SDLG, Terex Trucks, Prevost, Nova Bus, UD Bus, Sunwin Bus and Volvo Penta.

Volvo Buses, is driven by a purpose to ensure that millions of people reach their travel destination every day. Reliably, safely and with respect for the environment. We want to make a difference, being pioneers of sustainable transport solutions of the future. We want to be there for our customers providing uptime and reliability, all over the world every day. Volvo Buses is leading the biggest technology shift in public transport in decades with our electromobility offer. We work with passion, we trust each other and we embrace change to stay ahead. We make our customers win.