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Production Quality Engineer

Saab
Linköping, Swedenfull_timeVerifiedPosted 20 Aug 2026

About the role

Your role

Be a part of the global commercial aerospace industry, working with production quality at Saab Aerospace Systems in Linköping. We supply customers like Airbus and Boeing with wing structures, movables and doors.  
 

The Production Quality Engineer is responsible for quality assurance in Aerospace Systems production. The role includes planning, implementation and monitoring of quality related activities in order to maintain or improve the production’s quality performance as well as handling non-conformities.

The main tasks:

  • Develop and/or maintain the production quality performance
  • Secure compliance to quality requirements throughout production
  • Handling non-conformities
  • Corrective actions management
  • Continuously analyze, identify and initiate improvements to part design, industrial setup, internal work processes
  • Internal/external audits (Nadcap)

Your profile

What we are looking for is someone with a high drive for continues improvements and willingness to take on new challenges. The big variety of products and parts calls for someone that has no problem of learning and understanding manufacturing techniques, products and customer requirements/expectations. Multiple interfaces, between organizations within Aerospace Systems, should feel exiting for someone applying for this position.

Required skills:

  • High school degree.
  • Excellent communication skills in English, verbal and written
  • Experience in using quality technology tools for problem solving (six sigma etc)
  • Experience in reading design data i.e. drawings, models etc

Desired skills:

  • Experience from commercial aerospace
  • Experience in working close to production
  • Background with focus on quality and manufacturing techniques in composite
  • Certified Black Belt
  • Experience in First Article Inspection review


This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

What you will be a part of

Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.

Saab is a leading defense and security company with an enduring purpose, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 28,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defense capability of several nations. Read more about us here

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.

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