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We are looking for a Technical Project Manager to strengthen our Project Management for Naval Combat Systems. Welcome to the naval side of life!
Your role
As a Technical Project Manager, you work hand in hand with the Project Management leading the technical work within a customer project. The role is a senior role and you carry a great responsibility managing the overall technical scope as a lead solution architect and also management of the technical teams of the customer project.
Customer projects typically consist in the execution of a contract covering the requirements, design, integration, testing and delivery of a combat system for a specific combat ship or class of ships. You therefor have an eye for ensuring that the requirements and technical solutions are well specified and feasible for the project to deliver successfully as per agreements with regards to time, budget, scope and quality.
To succeed in this role, you understand the importance of establishing a project scope using existing products and components as far as possible and you align requirements from customers and other stakeholders with a product roadmap in mind for a system-to-system integration. As well enjoy leading technical work and enabling teams and engineers to set the scope, specify systems, perform the design, development and verification of the project deliveries, is all performed in a creative and dynamic atmosphere.
The main tasks in the project work are:
- Overall responsibility for the technical scope
- Managing the technical work tasks for specialty engineering staff and technical authority teams
- Manage the technical requirements, design and documentation
- Manage the verification and quality of the technical deliveries
- Contribute to perform the project activities in an efficient and competitive manner
- Manage and work to mitigate the technical risks
The position is based in our Turku Office but will require frequent travel within Finland and to Saab Sweden.
Your profile
You are a confident communicator in both Finnish and English and preferably you speak or understand Swedish. You share information in a clear and easy way, verbally and in writing. You have a collaborative mindset and you are a true team player! You are comfortable leading challenging technical negotiations towards the customer.
Required skills and experience:
- Experience working with defense products or work with systems in the naval domain
- Experience in working with systems of system and systems/solution design
- Background from leading roles in SW projects
- Experience in leading people and teams
- Experience in contract management of suppliers
Desirable skills:
- Experience working with safety critical systems
- IT security experience
- Experience working with real-time systems
If the description above sounds like you, we encourage you to apply!
In this job, some of your tasks have a connection to defense secrecy. Therefore, a drug test and approved security clearance in accordance with the Finnish Security Clearance act 726/2014 is required for the selected applicant.
What you will be 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.
Teamwork is our strength. In fact, without it, we wouldn't have come this far. Join us and be part of a friendly, sharp and supportive workforce guided by common goals. But for us, it's more than just reaching our destination. It's about how we navigate the path together; with respect, thoughtfulness and always a bit of fun. Welcome to a workplace where your voice will be heard and where you feel safe to be your true self.
On top of joining a team of highly talented professionals and fun people, we offer you competitive benefit package, including full lunch benefit, exercise & culture benefit, transport related options, and many more. We also value a good work-life balance and offer our employees flexible working hours.
We hope to have you as part of our team as soon as possible but preferably not later than January 2026.
Interested?
Take your chance to build your future career at Saab by submitting your CV and application letter via Saab Careers already now!
Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that we might start interviews before the closing date of the advertisement.
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