Product Team Manager
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace - Defence Systems
- Frist 18.08.2024
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Are you ready to help Land Systems with our mission?
Are you ready to help Land Systems with our mission to become a customer driven and product driven organization? The leader of the Product Team for Fire Control Systems has an exciting and challenging task ahead. With a legacy of over 20,000 weapons stations sold and a high growth market ahead, the leader of this team has to figure out how to scale for growth, how to do this with our customers close and how to bring down the number of variants. The Fire Control System represents the core products for both weapon stations and remote turrets. These are the core elements including the electronics, software, sensors, cables and other hardware. The leader for this team needs to have a product management understanding, passion for delivering, vision for how to make this scaling work and a love of technology.
Responsibilities:
- Responsibility for development and industrialization of products and systems to meet current and future customer needs, including manufacturing test development.
- Communicate and collaborate well with sales, programs and Through Life Support (TLS) to support customer needs on programs in execution.
- Stay on top of operational scenario experience from customers and partners, use this to drive product requirements.
- Maintain a product portfolio that supports all turret and weapon station variants, keep Product Roadmaps alive and in line with the Strategic Technology Plan.
- Develop people and foster a learning environment.
- Follow up quality issues with the design to ensure that root causes are understood and improvements are made.
- Collaborate with supply chain and operations to enable scaling of activities and efficient production.
- Maximize the reuse of solutions, technologies and competency.
- Monitor technology trends and continue development to embrace the most efficient and high performance solutions needed
- Identify opportunities for cost-saving measures related to the products in interaction with other departments in Land Systems.
- Obsolescence management and industrialization of electronic products.
Key qualifications:
- Proven track record in leading engineering and development teams
- Bachelor or Masters in relevant technology (Electronics, Mechatronics or Computer Science preferred)
- Experience with product management
- Experience with successful product launches. (especially in electronics and software)
- Experience with successful product introduction and transition into production and industrialization.
- Proven track record and leadership experience in product development from concept to full production.
- Ability to prioritize and handle several projects and tasks in parallel.
- Excellent collaboration, communication and leadership skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Strong ability to communicate in English, written as well as orally
We can offer
- A challenging position with good opportunities for professional and career development
- Varied work tasks
- Work in an open, collegial and learning environment
- Competitive conditions
Please note that candidates who apply for the position will, in connection with the recruitment process, be subject to a background check and an assessment of this will be used as a basis for selecting a candidate. To be a current candidate for the position, you must also be able to be security cleared and authorized cf. The Security Act.
Om arbeidsgiveren
- Sektor: Privat
- Sted: Kirkegårdsveien 45, 3616 Kongsberg
- Bransje: Forsvar og militær, Industri og produksjon
- Stillingsfunksjon: Elektroingeniør, Ledelse
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