Senior Engineer - Manufacturing Project Management

Job title: Senior Engineer - Manufacturing Project Management

About the Role As a Senior Engineer in Manufacturing Project Management at Autoliv, you will oversee high-level engineering projects related to manufacturing, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery while maintaining high quality. You will lead cross-functional teams, manage risks and costs, and drive improvements to enhance competitiveness and product reliability in airbags, seatbelts, and steering wheels.

What You'll Do

• Develop and maintain project plans: form and lead project teams, set milestones and detailed schedules, continuously update and adjust when deviations occur.
• Manage project costs and budget across the development lifecycle (Phase 0–4), confirm and report total lifecycle costs and pricing, drive procurement, engineering and factory teams to optimize costs.
• Coordinate project communications: organize regular project meetings, report progress, costs, quality and risks to stakeholders, conduct stage reviews and ensure information transparency.
• Manage lifecycle risks: identify risks (cost increases, schedule delays), propose mitigations, escalate to management based on probability and impact, implement closed-loop risk management (identify–analyze–correct–track–close).
• Change and engineering support: oversee post-TG4 change management and VE/VA projects, evaluate ECR/ECN, report feasibility and estimate time/cost impact.
• Product development and quality assurance: ensure development follows design guidelines and high-quality requirements, participate in lessons learned, case studies, technical reviews, share experiences with team.
• Production ramp-up and continuous improvement: participate in production line and design workshop activities, support solving design-related issues, enhance plant capability, drive standardization and innovation.
• Summary and knowledge transfer: lead project reviews, capture lessons learned, and promote optimization of project management methods and tools; contribute to the airbag and related product project management knowledge base.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Automotive Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related field; at least 2 years of engineering or project management experience in the automotive industry, with experience leading development or change projects for automotive components (preferring safety systems).
• Familiar with OEM development processes (experience preferred).
• Practical ability in project planning, cost control, risk management and cross-functional communication.
• Strong problem analysis and problem-solving ability; able to identify issues and drive closed-loop improvements in daily management.
• Basic English reading, writing and speaking; able to communicate with clients and multinational teams; fluent English preferred.
• Proficient in project management tools (e.g., MS Project, JIRA or similar) and Office software.
• We look forward to discussing your experience and career goals; in our international environment there are opportunities for growth; embracing diversity is key to team success.

Nice to Have

• Fluent English preferred.
• Proficient with MS Project, JIRA and Office tools.

About Autoliv We strive to save more lives and prevent serious injuries, and we continuously focus on quality, confidence and security for our customers, stability and growth for our shareholders and employees, as well as being sustainable and earning trust within our communities. Autoliv, established in Sweden in 1953, is the worldwide leader in automotive safety systems.