European Manufacturing (GM) is the industrial organisation in Volvo Trucks with the Mission to competitively produce and distribute superior quality trucks which satisfy the needs of our customer. Our ambition within GM is described in a short statement for the Vision:
To be a global industrial operation that exceeds customer expectations, Function:
- •Within our European organisation you are responsible for the preparation of product changes in a European organisation. You analyse the product change proposals, as planned on short and long term, by the product development department, and elaborate these as inputs for the departments logistics, production and quatlity.
- •You secure that the necessary technical and financial information is available.
- •You take into account ergonomics, quality, planning and cost when striving for your goals. You monitor and detect risks and define preventive actions.
- •As part of the project team you establish a realistic planning for the introduction of product changes.
- •You cooperate with the different departments in the European factories and product development offices.
- •You follow the total process from the change request issues by the product development Office, untill the Truck is ready for delivery. You have an important role to detect problems during the introduction process, and via your network, elaborate in short term a satisfactory solution.
- •You work closely with project leader(s).
- •You report functionally to the process responsible