Project Manager, Combat System

SAAB; Turku; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SAAB's Business Unit Surveillance in Finland is seeking a Project Manager to lead the implementation and commissioning of Naval Combat Systems on a ship platform. You will drive delivery from design to final acceptance, coordinating sensors, CMS, and platform integration.

The role requires travel to Saab Sweden and shipyard presence, fluent in Finnish and English, and strong leadership of cross-functional teams and risk management to meet time, budget, and quality targets.

Qualifications

• Experience in commissioning/acceptance of complex technical systems.
• Experience with systems-of-systems and maritime integration.
• Background in leading large-scale projects.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams and sub-suppliers.
• Experience in contract management and Statements of Work (SOW).
• Experience with safety-critical systems and verification of requirements.
• IT/security and cyber security experience in a project environment.
• Experience with real-time systems on maritime platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the project delivery with a focus on commissioning and implementation.
• Manage Harbour and Sea Acceptance Tests (HAT/SAT) execution and reporting.
• Oversee Set-To-Work activities and ensure SSE readiness.
• Coordinate WoS engineering support for ship/platform integration.
• Identify and mitigate project risks using the risk register.
• Lead the problem reporting process and manage ECPs.
• Act as primary contact for customer and shipyard on schedule and milestones.

Skills

Naval defense experience

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Contract management

Safety-critical systems

IT security

Cyber security

Real-time systems

Team leadership

Job description

The Business Unit Surveillance is looking for a Project Manager (PM) to lead the implementation and commissioning phase of our Naval Combat Systems in Finland.

As a Project Manager, you carry the overall responsibility for the successful delivery and commissioning of the integrated Combat System (CS), ensuring that all sensors, weapon systems, and the Combat Management System (CMS) are fully operational on the ship platform. The role is a senior position where you manage the project's transition from the design phase to integration and acceptance on the ships up to the project’s final acceptance. You are responsible for ensuring that the project is delivered successfully as per agreements with regards to time, budget, scope, and quality, with a specific focus on ensuring the integrated CS is fully prepared for final acceptance.

To success in this role, you understand the complexities of system-to-platform integration and the importance of coordinating multiple stakeholders, including the shipyard, the customer, and internal technical teams. You enjoy the challenge of leading the final verification phases of a project and enabling teams to perform the installation, set-to-work, and acceptance testing in a creative and dynamic atmosphere.

The main tasks in the project work are:

• Overall Responsibility:Lead the project delivery with a specific focus on the commissioning and implementation phase.
• Acceptance Testing:Manage the execution, coordination, and reporting of Harbour Acceptance Tests (HAT) and Sea Acceptance Tests (SAT).
• System Readiness:Oversee the Set-To-Work (STW) activities and ensure all Saab Supplied Equipment (SSE) is correctly installed, aligned, and ready for operation on the platform.
• Platform Integration:Coordinate Whole-of-Ship (WoS) engineering support to assist the customer and shipyard in the physical integration of the integrated CS with the ship platform.
• Risk Management:Identify, manage, and mitigate project risks using the project's risk register to ensure timely delivery.
• Technical Governance:Lead the problem reporting process, chair the System Problem Report (SPR) board, and manage Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) to ensure all technical issues are resolved before final delivery.
• Stakeholder Management:Act as the primary point of contact for the customer and shipyard regarding the commissioning schedule and delivery milestones.

The role requires frequent travel to Saab Sweden and presence on the shipyard/vessel.

Your profile

You are a confident communicator in both Finnish and English. 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 negotiations and managing expectations towards the customer and external partners.

Required skills and experience:

• Experience working with defense products or working with systems in the naval domain or equivalent complex environment.
• Proven experience in leading the commissioning, implementation, or acceptance phase of complex technical systems.
• Experience in working with systems-of-systems and the integration of hardware and software.
• Background from leading roles in large-scale project management.
• Experience in leading multi-disciplinary teams and managing sub-suppliers.
• Experience in contract management and the execution of Statements of Work (SOW).
• Experience working with safety-critical systems and the verification of safety requirements.
• IT security and cyber security experience in a project environment.
• Experience working with real-time systems and their integration on a maritime platform.

In this job, some of your tasks have a connection to defence secrecy. Therefore, a drug test and approved security clearance in accordance with the Finnish Security Clearance Act (726/2014) are required for the selected applicant. Depending on the nature of the assignments, additional country-specific security clearances, including those required by Swedish authorities, may also be required.

What you will be part of

In addition to extremely interesting project, we offer you unique career opportunities where on-going training and development are also provided to help you build your career. Locally, we want to keep our organization very flat, and we embrace the culture, built on values of trust, openness and atmosphere of caring for each other. 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, gym facilities, transport related options, and many more.

Would you like to know more about the Saab-life and our culture?

If you aspire to help create and innovate whilst developing yourself in a challenging team setting, Saab may well have the perfect conditions for you to grow. We pride ourselves on a nurturing environment, where everyone is different yet we share the same goal – to help protect people.

Regardless of whether you value cutting edge technology, creativity or an innovative environment, everyone at Saab contributes to keeping people and society safe.