R&D Technical Lead with a Focus on Quality

Siemens Energy; Östergötlands län; On-site; SEK 550,000 - 720,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible working arrangements

Vacation and wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Siemens Energy in Finspång is seeking an R&D Technical Representative to lead supplier qualification and development, ensuring technical requirements are understood and implemented across engineering, procurement, and quality.

You will coordinate a cross-functional team, prioritize work packages, and drive improvements in manufacturing processes and supplier performance while aligning stakeholders for timely decisions.

Qualifications

• Degree in mechanical/manufacturing/materials engineering or related field.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes, drawings, and quality requirements.
• Experience in roles related to manufacturing, quality, engineering, or supplier development.

Responsibilities

• Represent the R&D organization in supplier qualification and development, ensuring technical requirements are understood and implemented by manufacturers.
• Act as coordinating point for supplier qualification and development across a cross-functional team.
• Structure, prioritize, and coordinate incoming requests and work packages for effective execution.
• Collaborate with 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 with transparency and timely decisions.
• Contribute to development of methods, processes, and strategies for supplier qualification.

Skills

Communication

Cross-functional coordination

Analytical thinking

Structured/Organized

Swedish & English fluency

Education

B.Sc. or MSc in Mechanical/Manufacturing/Materials Engineering or related field

Job description

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.

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.

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
• 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.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

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.

Application

Application deadline: 2026-10-01.

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

We refrain from all contact with staffing and recruitment companies, or advertising brokers.

Location: Finspång

Trade Union Representatives

Unionen, [e-mail]

Sveriges Ingenjörer & SACO, [e-mail]

Ledarna, Anders Fors, [e-mail]

IF Metall, Mikael Malmgren, [e-mail]