As Manager Mechanical Design and Technical Writer, you will play a central role in shaping and developing MilDef’s mechanical design capability to support continued growth, innovation, and operational excellence.
Leading teams within Mechanical Design, Technical Documentation, Technical Writing, and Engineering Change Management, you will ensure that our product development environment enables scalable, robust, and compliant solutions for demanding defense and mission-critical applications.
The role combines leadership, engineering governance, and cross-functional collaboration, with a strong focus on driving structure, standardization, and lifecycle efficiency across the organization. You will contribute to strengthening our ways of working, developing team competence, and enabling future-focused engineering capabilities through modern tools, digitalization, and continuous improvement.
You will also lead the Technical Writing function, ensuring customer-facing and internal technical documentation is accurate, structured, compliant, and aligned throughout the product lifecycle. This includes driving standards, processes, and collaboration between engineering, product management, service, quality, and production to secure high-quality technical communication and documentation delivery.
Operating in a global and highly collaborative environment, you will work closely with Product Management, Systems Engineering, Production, Quality, and Supply Chain to ensure technical solutions meet both customer expectations and regulatory requirements.
Lead and develop teams within Mechanical Design, Technical Documentation, Technical Writing, and Change Management.
Define and govern engineering processes, methods, and tools related to mechanical design and technical documentation.
Drive implementation and continuous optimization of PLM and ECN processes.
Ensure product structures, documentation, manuals, and technical data integrity throughout the lifecycle.
Coordinate cross-functional collaboration to support robust and scalable product development.
Ensure technical documentation fulfills customer, compliance, and lifecycle requirements.
Ensure compliance with applicable standards and regulatory requirements such as CE, RoHS, REACH, and MIL-STD.
Promote standardization, reuse, and continuous improvement across the product portfolio.
Several years of leadership experience within mechanical design, technical documentation, technical writing, or related engineering disciplines.
Strong experience working with PLM systems, configuration management, and engineering change processes.
Experience developing ruggedized or complex technical solutions within regulated industries.
Understanding of product lifecycle management and documentation control in engineering environments.
Experience from defense, aerospace, industrial technology, or other long-lifecycle industries is considered highly valuable.
Experience working with Teamcenter PLM and Autodesk Inventor.
Experience driving digitalization or AI-related engineering initiatives.
Understanding of defense industry standards and customer requirements.
At MilDef, you'll be part of a company that values hands-on involvement, strong team spirit, and the development of defense technology. With us, you will have the opportunity to develop new skills, contribute to cross-functional projects, and make a real impact on our continued success. We encourage continuous learning and collaboration, and we offer excellent opportunities for career development. We are proud to actively promote health and work-life balance. We do this, among other things, by offering attractive employee benefits and wellness initiatives, such as wellness activities during working hours.
Would you like to know more about MilDef, our products, and our culture? MilDef.com
For further information, please contact Linnéa Blixt, HR.
We conduct drug tests on all our future colleagues before employment.
Due to the nature of our operations, employment regardless of position may be subject to background and security related checks.
The position will be advertised during the summer months, a period when many of us at MilDef are on vacation. We will therefore provide feedback no later than August. Thank you for your patience!
MilDef is a global systems integrator and full-spectrum provider specializing in rugged IT for military, government and critical infrastructure sectors. MilDef provides hardware, software, and services that shield and protect critical information streams and systems, when and where the stakes are the highest. MilDef’s products are sold to more than 200 customers through companies in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, the United States and Australia, and through partner networks in more than 40 countries. MilDef was founded in 1997 and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm since 2021.
We kindly decline contact from advertising and recruitment sales.
