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Engineering Manager/Release Manager

Your leadership will make a difference.

At Volvo Cars, we are always looking for world-class leaders who bring out the best in our people. If you want to be part of leading and inspiring our mission to change the automotive experience and make people’s lives less complicated, then we have the job for you.

 

Let's introduce ourselves


The position resides in the middle of ConX developing ARTs, ConX eART and Complete Software & Integration (CSIR). You have many stakeholders and very many personal contacts during your working day. You are reporting to eART Solution & Integration Department Manager and are part of the leadership team. You will be focusing on one car platform but in tight cooperation with the other ConX Integration & Release Leaders.

 

What you'll do

You will be the people manager for the Solution Support group within ConX eART SIR.

 

Job Responsibilities:

  • Leadership and Direction: Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
  • Organizational Capability Building: Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs. Plan and implement actions to build their capabilities. Provide training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
  • Performance Management: Manage and report on the performance of a substantial, diverse team; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project/account team members and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team/personal objectives.
  • Engineering Solutions Design: Contribute to the design of engineering solutions; design the feasibility testing approach and supervise its implementation to support the development and validation of engineering solutions.
  • Internal Client Relationship Management: Manage relationships with internal clients and act as a business partner to them, building high levels of professional credibility and mutual trust, and managing the deployment of appropriate internal and/or external resources to support in delivering business strategy and plans.

 

You will also be responsible for...

  • Creating and maintaining the ConX Software integration/release plan for one of the ConX programs.
  • A transparent integration/release plan visualizing main challenges and how we target towards important deadlines. 
  • Integration/release status reporting on behalf of ConX.
  • ConX Customer Release notes based on Product area inputs. 

You drive that we have documentation & requirement fulfillment set by the integration/release event purpose. In the role you will support the Unit Program Manager with status input for program reports, and be the ConX interface to central integration team.

What you'll bring

 

 

To be a fit for this role we believe that you you have:

  • Experience and deep understanding in the areas of software development, testing, continuous integration and software quality
  • Preferably an electrical automotive background and great interest in cars
  • Leadership experience, or you have what it takes to be a leader in Volvo Cars connected to our values.
  • A master or bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering or equivalent

You are:

  • A visionary on both medium and distant future, however driven, but still pragmatic and humble to delivering on challenges.
  • Structured but flexible when needed
  • Curious to people and technology
  • Social and humble to make the best out of people

 

Volvo Cars – driving change together

Volvo Cars’ success is the result of a collaborative, diverse and inclusive working environment. Today, we’re one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with around 43,000 employees across the globe. At Volvo Cars, your career is designed around your skills and aspirations, so you can reach your fullest potential.

 

And it’s so exciting – we’re well on our way on our journey towards full electrification. We have five fully electric cars already on the market, and five more on the way. Our fully-electric and plug-in hybrid cars combined make up almost 50 per cent of our sales. So come and join us in shaping the future of mobility. There’s never been a more rewarding time to play your part in our inspiring and creative teams!
 

Gothenburg, SE, 40531

Job requisition ID:  75563

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