PROJECT LEADER / GROUP DESIGN LEAD / ENGINEERING TASK LEADER

Are you interested in joining EDAG? Have you worked as a Group Design Lead (GDL) within interior, exterior or BIW before? EDAG, one of the leading global engineering experts with a heritage in the automotive industry, serves its customers with a complete development responsibility, from concept work to even building prototypes. Whether it is software development, development of future mobility solutions, sustainability, design technology, quality assurance, manufacturing technology or various other engineering requests, for more than 50 years EDAG has successfully helped its customers take the next technological leap. We at EDAG simply claim to be our customers' global mobility technology experts! EDAG Engineering Scandinavia AB is the Scandinavian subsidiary of the EDAG Group. We are now certified as "A GREAT PLACE TO WORK" with a top score! More and more customers are discovering our ability to deliver local engineering capabilities in a wide range of areas – often in combination with other global EDAG facilities, colleagues, and competencies to handle larger projects and commitments. Our customers are continuing giving us further responsibilities and larger project undertakings. We are currently increasing our project portfolio and are looking for several GDL (Group Design Lead) in interior/ Exterior with a genuine interest in automotive development. You have experience in product development from automotive OEM’s and had roles such as task- or project leader with cross-functional technical responsibility, including cost and time. We assume you are proactive, have great communication and leadership skills, positive personality and loads of energy. Role Description: You will work as a project leader in a development team. The work is done in close collaboration with suppliers. As a GDL (group Design Lead) your responsibility is to lead and align the cross-functional team to meet time, technique and cost targets within the project and be the link between internal and external stakeholders. Main Responsibilities

• Leading the cross functional collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to achieve project deliveries and to secure alignment for technical, financial and time plans.
• Follow plan to ensure that milestones and gate deliveries are fulfilled.
• Reporting status, forecasts and risks related to the team deliveries to the relevant forums.
• Cascading projects information and requests to the team, ensuring that pre-requisites are clear.
• Ensure that the team deliveries are quality assured by using relevant processes and tools (included but not limited to e.g., TCE, CADBOM, VPC, TCPLM, PCT).
• Being responsible for correct status in all the Mechanical Integration phases and for correct material status, at the right cost, at the right time for pilot builds and production builds.
• Initiating, communicating and assuring that corrective actions are carried out when issues occur.

Required Qualifications

• You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (or equal).
• You’ve led teams as a GDL (or project leader) in the area of exterior, interior or BIW at Volvo Cars for at least +3 years
• You know your way around the tools and processes we use.
• You are fluent in both Swedish and English - speaking and writing.

We Offer: We can provide you exciting tasks with great colleagues developing your skills in true global EDAG project teams. Your base will mainly be inhouse in our own facilities in Gothenburg, but you will have daily contacts with many more colleagues in other EDAG sites around the globe and of course with great customers and suppliers. You are also entitled for career possibilities in a successful global engineering company with collective agreement and marked levels of salary and other benefits.