Fire & Security - Program Manager
Are you our next Project Manager?
Are you an experienced Project Manager ready to advance your career by leading complex engineering initiatives? We’re looking for a proactive, execution‑focused leader who’s passionate about accelerating sustainable innovation.
What drives us at Schneider Electric?
For us, impact isn’t just a term paraded across posters or social media; it’s encoded into our culture. After all, Schneider makes companies, infrastructure, buildings, homes, data centers, and entire industries more efficient and sustainable. There’s a reason why we’re consistently ranked among the most sustainable companies in the world. Here, you can pursue your dream career while actively making a long-term, positive impact on the planet.
With us, you’ll contribute to tackling the climate crisis head-on, and accelerating the energy transition the planet urgently needs. What’s more, we help tens of millions of people in underserved communities gain access to energy and education — so you’re making the world a fairer place, too. You’ll sit among colleagues with vastly different personal and professional backgrounds, all united by a vision of a better world.
Welcome to your workplace
You’ll be based at Schneider Electric’s R&D Innovation Site in Lund — a dynamic hub for cutting-edge development in energy management and automation. The site brings together cross-functional teams in a collaborative, high-tech environment designed to foster innovation, creativity, and continuous learning. With modern labs, agile workspaces, and a strong focus on sustainability, it’s the perfect place to grow your career.
What You’ll Do
When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.
IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.
Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!
€36 billion global revenue
+13% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
#1 on the Global 100 World’s most sustainable corporations
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.
Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.
At Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders. You can find out more about our Trust Charter here
Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.
Are you an experienced Project Manager ready to advance your career by leading complex engineering initiatives? We’re looking for a proactive, execution‑focused leader who’s passionate about accelerating sustainable innovation.
What drives us at Schneider Electric?
For us, impact isn’t just a term paraded across posters or social media; it’s encoded into our culture. After all, Schneider makes companies, infrastructure, buildings, homes, data centers, and entire industries more efficient and sustainable. There’s a reason why we’re consistently ranked among the most sustainable companies in the world. Here, you can pursue your dream career while actively making a long-term, positive impact on the planet.
With us, you’ll contribute to tackling the climate crisis head-on, and accelerating the energy transition the planet urgently needs. What’s more, we help tens of millions of people in underserved communities gain access to energy and education — so you’re making the world a fairer place, too. You’ll sit among colleagues with vastly different personal and professional backgrounds, all united by a vision of a better world.
Welcome to your workplace
You’ll be based at Schneider Electric’s R&D Innovation Site in Lund — a dynamic hub for cutting-edge development in energy management and automation. The site brings together cross-functional teams in a collaborative, high-tech environment designed to foster innovation, creativity, and continuous learning. With modern labs, agile workspaces, and a strong focus on sustainability, it’s the perfect place to grow your career.
What You’ll Do
- You will play an important role in improving Schneider Electrics Fire Detection systems, as the driver of projects within our portfolio.
- You will have full execution responsibility to meet budget, time plan and quality objectives, as well as handle efficient communication with stakeholders. And during the entire execution never disregard the fact that we are deling with a life safety system.
- You will collaborate Globally. Our project teams are spread out across functions in a large, global matrix organization, adapting to time zones as needed. But with a strong presence of development teams in Lund.
- You will need to take ownership of full life‑cycle delivery for complex, multi‑disciplinary engineering programs (requirements definition → architecture → development → testing → industrialization (when needed) → launch).
- We expect you to be the driving force, highlight problems with the right nuance and simultaneously be mindful of our culture to put people first.
- We expect you to collaborate openly and effectively to build bridges across teams and be an advocate for teamwork.
- Minimum 8 years, preferably more, experience of project/ program management
- Preference for candidates with a Maters Degree in Sience or ralated field.
- Proven track record of delivering projects including multiple disiplins within; SW, Electronics, Mechanics and/or Industralisation in a timely maner.
- Good communication skills for all levels of stakeholders are a must.
- Strong understanding of the SW and/or product development process and preferably experience of working with systems that require you to follow specific (UL/CE/IEC) standards.
- xperience working with cross functional globally distributed teams, including R&D, QA, supply chain, and manufacturing partners across multiple time zones. Demonstrated ability to drive alignment, facilitate technical decision-making, and manage cross-cultural communication.
- You demonstrate excellent people skills with high level of self-awareness.
- You are considered a structured person, that creates clarity when needed and executes with a sense of urgency.
- Based in or willing to relocating to Lund, Sweden.
- Language skills: Fluent advanced English (Swedish is a plus)
- Work on meaningful projects that contribute to a sustainable future in a market with high organic growth
- Hybrid work model and flexible hours
- Inclusive, supportive and diverse work culture with people-first culture
- Global career development opportunities
- Competitive compensation and benefits tailored to the region
- Schneider Electric is an equal‑opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and identities
- About Schneider Electric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbldHPFltQQ
- We are proudly #1 in the World’s Most Sustainable Corporation 2025
- The product ranges for the Fire Offer on our webpage se.com
- Application deadline: Tuesday March 31st.
When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.
IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.
Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!
€36 billion global revenue
+13% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
#1 on the Global 100 World’s most sustainable corporations
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.
Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.
At Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders. You can find out more about our Trust Charter here
Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.