Production Quality Specialist

at  Saab Inc

Saab is one of the world’s leading defense and security companies, specializing in air, land, and naval defense, civil security, and commercial aerospace. Saab Sensor Technology Center in Tampere is part of Business Area Surveillance. Our teams are developing extremely complex and innovative electronic warfare systems, motivated by a clear target: to keep people and society safe.
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We are seeking a Production Quality Specialist with hands-on experience in the electronics industry to join our team in Tampere. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring that all products manufactured meet stringent quality standards, with a focus on both production processes and final product verification.
Your role
You will play a key role in maintaining quality assurance across all production stages, from incoming material inspection to final product testing, ensuring compliance with military specifications and industry regulations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee and maintain quality assurance processes during the production
• Conduct detailed inspections and testing at various stages of production to identify defects, deviations, and non-compliance
• Perform hands-on troubleshooting of production issues, working closely with production teams to ensure real-time quality control
• Maintain and update quality documentation, such as inspection reports, test data, and non-conformance reports
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (production, engineering, procurement and other Saab’s production sites) to drive continuous quality improvements
• Ensure readiness for customer or third-party quality inspections
• Train production personnel on quality control processes and best practices
• Analyze production data to identify trends, potential issues, and opportunities for process optimization

Since Saab is a global company, this role requires fluent communication in both English and Finnish, with suppliers, customers and colleagues both in Finland and internationally.
This role requires working mainly on our Tampere production site.
Your profile

Required skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Electronics, Quality Management, or related field (or equivalent work experience)
• Minimum of 3-5 years of hands-on quality assurance experience in the electronics industry
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to process improvement
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment

Additional skills and experience that will be beneficial:

• Solid knowledge of military standards and quality systems (ISO 9001, EN9100, AQAP MIL-STD, etc.)
• Proficiency in quality inspection tools and methodologies, such as Six Sigma, SPC, and FMEA
• Experience with quality management software and data analysis tools

If the description above sounds like you, we encourage you to apply!
In this job, some of your tasks have a connection to defense secrecy. Therefore, a drug test and approved security clearance in accordance with the Finnish Security Clearance act 726/2014 is required for the selected applicant.
What you will be part of?
At Saab Technology Center you will be a part of the Surface Sensor Solutions Business Unit that delivers electronic warfare applications for air, land and naval products. Saab Technology Center contributes to the next generation distributed systems for Electronic Support and Electronic Attack on absolute cutting-edge hardware and software.
Teamwork is our strength. In fact, without it, we wouldn’t have come this far. Join us and be part of a friendly, sharp and supportive workforce guided by common goals. But for us, it’s more than just reaching our destination. It’s about how we navigate the path together; with respect, thoughtfulness and always a bit of fun. Welcome to a workplace where your voice will be heard and where you feel safe to be your true self.
Your work place will be at Saab Sensor Technology Center in Tampere downtown in newly renovated premises.
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. We also value a good work-life balance and offer our employees flexible working hours.
We hope to have you as part of our team from the beginning of January 2025, however we can be flexible with the start date.
Would you like to know more about the Saab-life and our culture?
Read about Saab Careers.
Interested?
Please send you CV and application with the salary request trough the Saab Career System, latest by November 24th 2024. Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that we might start interviews before the closing date of the advertisement.
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

• Oversee and maintain quality assurance processes during the production
• Conduct detailed inspections and testing at various stages of production to identify defects, deviations, and non-compliance
• Perform hands-on troubleshooting of production issues, working closely with production teams to ensure real-time quality control
• Maintain and update quality documentation, such as inspection reports, test data, and non-conformance reports
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (production, engineering, procurement and other Saab’s production sites) to drive continuous quality improvements
• Ensure readiness for customer or third-party quality inspections
• Train production personnel on quality control processes and best practices
• Analyze production data to identify trends, potential issues, and opportunities for process optimizatio