Step into the role

At MilDef, production is a strategic capability. We are building a European defense company designed for long-term scale, resilience, and delivery excellence.

We are now looking for a Production Director to join our growing team.

This is a critical leadership role within the Business Unit MilDef Products, responsible for securing operational performance during a period of significant growth, industrialization, and transformation. The role combines full operational ownership of our Helsingborg production site with coordination of manufacturing across international production sites.

The role requires both strategic leadership and operational execution, balancing daily performance with long-term capability building.

Key responsibilities

• Assume full operational responsibility for the Helsingborg production site

• Coordinate manufacturing activities across multiple production sites within the Business Unit

• Secure operational robustness, delivery precision, and execution discipline

• Drive manufacturing excellence in a defense industry environment with high quality and security requirements

• Ensure compliance with applicable defense, security, and quality standards

• Lead capacity planning, production scaling, and operational readiness initiatives

• Build and develop a high-performing production organization capable of supporting long-term growth

• Work closely with Supply Chain, Engineering, Program Management, Quality, and Operations leadership

• Support the Business Unit in securing customer confidence through predictable and reliable delivery performance

What you bring

• Extensive leadership experience from manufacturing, operations, or industrial production environments

• Strong experience managing complex production operations and industrial scaling

• Proven ability to lead through transformation and operational change

• Strong understanding of quality systems, operational governance, and manufacturing excellence

• Experience working in low-volume/high-mix production environments, preferably combined with industrialization toward higher-volume manufacturing

• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership capability

• A structured, resilient, and execution-focused leadership style in combination with an engaging and strong leadership personality who easily is getting followship from team

• Risk management mindset

• Hands-on operational leader with strategic capability

• Able to operate in a matrix organization with program/contract-driven delivery

• Financially strong in manufacturing economics

Meriting experience

• Experience from defense, aerospace, automotive, medtech, or other highly regulated industries is highly valued

• Strong understanding of compliance, export control, and quality systems (ISO, FAR/DFAR etc).

Get to know us

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

Important information

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.

MilDef - WE ARMOR IT.

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.

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