R&D Technical Lead with a Focus on Quality

Siemens Gas and Power GmbH & Co. KG; Lessebo kommun; Hybrid; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex working hours

Health care allowance

Advance vacation

Flexible working place

Job summary

Siemens Energy AB in Sweden seeks an R&D Technical Lead with a focus on quality to strengthen supplier qualification and development across the supply chain. You will bridge Engineering, Procurement, Quality and external suppliers to ensure high-quality turbine components.

Newly established role emphasizes coordinating activities, planning, and prioritizing work packages while aligning with line managers. A strong technical foundation across manufacturing processes is essential.

Qualifications

• You hold a B.Sc. or M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Engineering, or a related field.
• You have experience coordinating cross-functional activities in a complex technical environment.
• You are analytical, structured, and capable of translating technical requirements into practical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Represent the R&D organization in supplier qualification and development across a cross-functional team.
• Structure, prioritize, and coordinate incoming requests and work packages.
• Perform technical evaluations, audits, and capability assessments of suppliers.
• Collaborate with Procurement, Quality, Engineering and Manufacturing to ensure robust supplier solutions.
• Drive continuous improvements in manufacturing processes and product quality.
• Facilitate communication and alignment between stakeholders for transparency and progress.
• Lead cross-functional activities and allocate resources with line managers.
• Contribute to methods, processes, and strategies for supplier qualification.

Skills

Cross-functional coordination

Supplier development

Quality management

Engineering

Manufacturing processes

Education

B.Sc./M.Sc. in Mechanical/Manufacturing/Materials Engineering

Job description

"We energize society" by supporting our customers to make the transition to a more sustainable world, based on innovative technologies and our ability to turn ideas into reality. With nearly 100,000 employees around the world, we shape the energy systems of today and tomorrow.

R&D Technical Lead with a Focus on Quality

About the Role

Job ID

303446

Location

Sweden

Remote vs. Office

Hybrid (Remote/Office)

Company

Siemens Energy AB

Organization

Gas Services

Business Unit

Distributed

Full Time or Part Time

Experience Level

Professional / Experienced

A Snapshot of Your Day

As an R&D Technical Representative within Product & Process Qualification, you will play a key role in ensuring that our suppliers have the technical capabilities required to manufacture components for our gas turbines with high quality, performance, and delivery precision. You will serve as the technical interface between Engineering, Procurement, Quality, and our internal and external suppliers.

This is a newly established role, created to further strengthen our supplier qualification and technical development efforts across the supply chain. You will be part of a cross-functional team consisting of specialists from Compressor, Turbine, Combustion, Materials Laboratory, Procurement, and Quality. In addition to your technical responsibilities, you will act as the coordinating point for the R&D team, ensuring that incoming supplier qualification and development activities are structured, prioritized, and allocated to the engineers in collaboration with the respective line managers.

You will play a leading role in planning, coordinating, and driving the team's work forward, creating alignment across functions and ensuring efficient execution of activities.

At the same time, you will be organizationally affiliated with one of our component departments, providing a strong technical foundation and opportunities to contribute specialist expertise within your area.

The position offers a unique opportunity to combine deep technical expertise, supplier development, cross-functional coordination, and strategic influence on our future products and supplier network.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Represent the R&D organization in the qualification and development of new and existing suppliers, ensuring that technical requirements, drawings, specifications, and process requirements are understood and implemented by our manufacturers.
• Act as the coordinating point for supplier qualification and development activities across a cross-functional team of specialists.
• Structure, prioritize, and coordinate incoming requests and work packages, ensuring effective execution and resource utilization.
• Collaborate with the respective line managers to allocate activities.
• Perform technical evaluations, audits, and capability assessments of suppliers.
• Collaborate with Procurement, Quality, Engineering, and Manufacturing to ensure robust supplier solutions.
• Drive continuous improvements in manufacturing processes, product quality, and supplier performance.
• Facilitate communication and alignment between stakeholders, ensuring transparency, progress tracking, and timely decision-making.
• Contribute to the development of methods, processes, and strategies for supplier qualification.

What You Bring

• You are a driven and communicative professional who enjoys building relationships and achieving results together with others.
• You hold a B.Sc. or M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Engineering, or a related field.
• You have a solid understanding of manufacturing processes, technical drawings, and industrial quality requirements.
• You have experience working in a technical role related to manufacturing, quality, engineering, or supplier development.
• You have experience coordinating cross-functional activities and stakeholders, preferably in a complex technical environment.
• You are analytical and structured, with the ability to translate technical requirements into practical solutions while managing multiple priorities.
• You communicate fluently in both Swedish and English, verbally and in writing.
• Experience in supplier development, welding, machining, casting, or other manufacturing processes is considered an advantage.

We Believe You Are

A person who combines strong technical expertise with a genuine interest in collaboration, coordination, and problem-solving. You thrive at the intersection of engineering, quality, procurement, and business, and are motivated by developing both suppliers and ways of working to ensure high-quality products.

You are a natural coordinator who creates structure and brings people together around common goals. You feel comfortable leading cross-functional activities, balancing technical requirements with available resources, and driving progress through strong communication and collaboration rather than formal authority.

You are confident in representing the engineering organization and are driven to create long-term, sustainable solutions together with colleagues and suppliers.

Our Gas Services division offers Low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. Zero or low emission power generation and all gas turbines under one roof, steam turbines and generators. Decarbonization opportunities through service offerings, modernization, and digitalization of the fleet.

We can offer you employment benefits such as: reduction of working hours, advance vacation, health care allowance and an eventual possibility to a flexible working place.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Ongoing selection is applied, the role might be filled before last application date.

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