Spare Part Engineer

Volvo Buses; Göteborgs kommun; On-site; SEK 650,000 - 850,000; Full time

Job summary

Volvo Buses, Service Market Technology, is seeking a Spare Part Engineer to drive a cost-efficient global spare part assortment with high availability for the end user. You will collaborate with product development, PMRs and Quality Journals to establish, optimize, and release spare part assortments, transforming data into clear insights that enable smarter decisions and improved uptime.

The role blends technical depth with business impact, offering opportunities to influence spare parts

Qualifications

• Spare Part Engineering experience within the automotive industry.
• Business competence within After Market.
• Technical knowledge and product understanding.
• Knowledge of end user and workshop needs.
• Experience with virtual systems and product data management.
• Strong process understanding, Develop Product & Aftermarket Product Portfolio process (DVP) and Spare Part process.
• Customer focus and market awareness.
• A data-driven mindset and the ability to convert analysis into action.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and judge new parts as SP equals Y or SP equals N
• Release spare parts within your responsibility area
• Time-set parts to ensure correct availability and life cycle handling
• Investigate backwards compatibility and identify whether old parts can be replaced by new ones
• Maintain the common spare parts assortment policy for your area
• Communicate critical information across functions and processes to secure alignment and implementation
• Contribute to spare parts, re-engineering, and customer support activities as needed

Skills

Spare Part Engineering

Aftermarket business

Technical knowledge

End user needs

Product data management

DVP process

Customer focus

Data-driven mindset

Job description

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.

Are you passionate about creating the right spare part solutions? Do you consider safety and quality to be your main drivers? Do you enjoy analysing, leading, and completing tasks? Then our team might be just the right place for you!

Who We Are

Service & Parts Assortment Engineering is a team within Service Market Technology at Volvo Buses. We work together to ensure that workshops around the world have the right standard times, maintenance programs and spare part assortment as well as other service market solutions to perform repairs and service on our buses.

This is the role

As a Spare Part Engineer, you will play a key role in providing a cost-efficient global spare part assortment with high availability for the end user. You will work closely with product development projects, PMRs, and Quality Journals to establish, optimize, and release spare part assortments in line with the. This is a role with both technical depth and business impact.

With your passion for data analytics, you transform complex data into clear insights that support smarter decisions, improve efficiency, and open up new business opportunities.

You will help ensure that the right parts are the available at the right time, supporting customer uptime, operational efficiency, and service excellence.

In This Role, You Will

• Evaluate and judge new parts as SP equals Y or SP equals N
• Release spare parts within your responsibility area
• Time-set parts to ensure correct availability and life cycle handling
• Investigate backwards compatibility and identify whether old parts can be replaced by new ones
• Maintain the common spare parts assortment policy for your area
• Communicate critical information across functions and processes to secure alignment and implementation
• Contribute to spare parts, re-engineering, and customer support activities as needed

What We Offer

At Service Market Technology- Service & Parts Assortment Engineering, you will be part of a global organization where your work has a visible impact. You can expect:

• A meaningful role with a direct impact on customer uptime and service performance
• The opportunity to work in a global, cross-functional environment
• A position where technical expertise meets business value
• Room to grow into broader responsibilities and represent the team in global forums
• A collaborative culture built on trust, responsibility, and continuous improvement
• The opportunity to contribute to Volvo Bus and Service Market Technology ambitions in safety, quality, sustainability, and innovation.

Skills

We are looking for an initiative-taking and structured Spare Part Engineer with a positive mindset, strong collaboration skills, and a clear customer focus. You enjoy working across interfaces and can balance technical details with business understanding. To succeed in this role, you possess:

• Spare Part Engineering experience within the automotive industry, heavy duty industry is a merit
• Business competence within After Market.
• Technical knowledge and product understanding
• Knowledge of end user and workshop needs
• Experience with virtual systems and product data management
• Strong process understanding, Develop Product & Aftermarket Product Portfolio process (DVP) and Spare Part process
• Customer focus and market awareness
• A data-driven mindset and the ability to convert analysis into action

Why join us

If you want to use your engineering competence to make a real difference for customers, this is the place to do it. At Volvo Bus, Service Market Technology your work will help ensure the spare parts availability that keeps vehicles on the road and businesses up and running. You will join a team that values collaboration, initiative, and forward thinking, and you will help shape a spare part offering that reflects our promise: safe, reliable, and sustainable transport with a premium customer experience. If you are ready to combine technical expertise, analytical thinking, and customer impact, we would love to hear from you.

Contact information

If you have questions about the position, please contact hiring manager Elia Zamora at: [e-mail].

Curious, and have some questions? Call us!

Elia Zamora, Service & Parts Assortment Engineering, [phone]

Business Area/Truck Division/Group Function: Volvo Buses

Last application date: 21st of October

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Who We Are And What We Believe In

We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.

At Volvo Buses you join one of the world’s leading providers of sustainable people transport solutions. What we do affects millions of people around the world: passengers, drivers, customers; in fact, entire cities and countries. This job gives you the opportunity to work with the future of people transportation and infrastructure. We have a strong culture of working together to help each other, sharing knowledge and experience. Together, we shape the world we want to live in.