Workshop Manager ConnectBus Kronoberg

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Company Presentation Connect Bus is one of the leading companies in the Nordic region for passenger transport in public transportation! We offer a wide range of transport solutions, including scheduled buses, flexible route buses, and fixed vehicles for mobility services and school transport. With over 3,700 employees and an impressive fleet of over 2,700 vehicles distributed across 64 depots, we are proud to be the third largest public transport operator in Norway and the fifth largest in Sweden! Our team consists of highly qualified and experienced individuals working together to ensure the highest quality and reliability in all our services. At Connect Bus, it is important that every employee shares our vision and values. With the vision of leading the transition to sustainable travel through innovation and engaged employees, we strive to create a work environment where every individual feels involved and engaged in achieving our common goals. Our Core Values: Responsibility: We care for people and the environment through safe and sustainable priorities Engaged: We perform our work with pride and solve today's and tomorrow's challenges Inclusive: We have room for everyone and create the best experiences and results together Tasks and Areas of Responsibility As Workshop Manager in Kronoberg, you will be responsible for two modern workshops and one of the region's most comprehensive and technically interesting vehicle fleets. Here you will lead operations for approximately 180 buses, where the oldest bus is only a few years old and where a large part of the vehicle fleet consists of modern electric bus technology. You will have the opportunity to lead and develop an operation where new technology, sustainability, and high availability are in focus. You are responsible for the workshops at Hammerdal and Älgvägen and lead the operation through two workshop managers as well as a team of mechanics and administrative staff. Here you will have the opportunity to influence both the operation's results and employee development while having significant authority to shape working methods, routines, and processes. The role is not about standing with tools in hand yourself, but about leading through others. You ensure that the workshops operate in a structured, efficient, and sustainable manner to create high operational reliability and availability of the vehicle fleet. You become an important link between workshop, operations, and management where your work contributes directly to public transport functioning every day. The role combines operational presence with strategic responsibility and includes personnel, budget, and work environment responsibility as well as responsibility for quality, safety, and compliance with laws, regulations, and internal processes. Tasks Lead, develop, and monitor workshop operations in Kronoberg Take responsibility for personnel, work environment, budget, and delivery of operationally reliable vehicles Ensure planning in the short, medium, and long term for the workshop's work Ensure that service, maintenance, and repairs are carried out according to plan and applicable regulations Work with monitoring of costs, quality, and key metrics Ensure compliance with work environment regulations, safety routines, and quality processes Collaborate with traffic management, operations managers, business area manager, HR, and technical organization Drive improvement and development work and contribute to more integrated collaboration between workshop and operations Your Profile To succeed in the role, you are a confident and clear leader who enjoys creating structure, building engagement, and developing both people and operations. You have a natural holistic perspective, are solution-oriented, and have the ability to balance operational challenges with a long-term focus. As a person, you are communicative and trustworthy with an unpretentious approach to collaboration. You are attentive, willing to make decisions, and stand behind decisions when needed. At the same time, you are driven, positive, and have the ability to create understanding for goals, priorities, and financial relationships in the operation. To succeed in the role, we see that you have: Technical education in vehicle engineering or equivalent Several years of experience in a management role within a workshop Experience with personnel responsibility Good financial understanding Good system knowledge and excellent Excel skills Experience from bus operations or other heavy traffic activities is a merit, as is experience with electric buses and high-voltage systems. If you have also worked with budget responsibility, completed leadership training, or driven improvement work according to Lean principles, we see that as an extra plus. Why Connect Bus? This position offers a unique combination of strategic and operational work, where you have the opportunity to develop the operation from a stable foundation while also having great freedom to drive change and improvements. Here there are short decision-making processes, great trust, and a culture where people have the opportunity to influence. With a strong sustainability profile and electrification in focus, you will work in an industry in transition and be part of leading the green transformation. You will also collaborate with an engaged team within one of the Nordic region's largest public transport operators, where there are great opportunities for both professional and personal development. Apply Today! If you fit the above profile, do not hesitate to apply today! Do not forget to motivate as thoroughly as possible why you are suitable for this position and to update your information in your CV. Apply for the position by clicking apply and register in our database, this is to follow the guidelines that apply for GDPR. For questions regarding the position or the recruitment process, please contact the responsible recruitment team; Marie Johansson at [email protected], Lisa Engborg at [email protected] Welcome! Unik Resurs Your recruitment & development partner in good times and bad If this assignment is not suitable for you, you are welcome to contact us and perhaps we can find your dream job together.Company Presentation Connect Bus is one of the leading companies in the Nordic region for passenger transport in public transportation! We offer a wide range of transport solutions, including scheduled buses, flexible route buses, and fixed vehicles for mobility services and school transport. With over 3,700 employees and an impressive fleet of over 2,700 vehicles distributed across 64 depots, we are proud to be the third largest public transport operator in Norway and the fifth largest in Sweden! Our team consists of highly qualified and experienced individuals working together to ensure…

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24. 6. 2026

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