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Head Of Assembly and Testing - Wave Energy INTEGRATION & TEST · Stockholm
CorPower Ocean
Stockholm, Sweden
Posted on Nov 14, 2025
INTEGRATION & TEST · Stockholm
Head Of Assembly and Testing - Wave Energy
Working at CorPower Ocean you will be part of a world class team, determined to make big impact. We are on a mission to Power the Planet with clean electricity from ocean waves. We offer autonomy and flexibility, combined with personal responsibility. CorPower Ocean is a global leader in wave energy, with a technology that has shown game-changing performance. Your work will contribute to the global energy transition by unlocking one of the largest untapped sources of clean energy on earth. Since the start in 2012 CorPower has raised more than 115mEUR to our wave energy technology to market, supporting a growing commercial project pipeline.
The Role
As Head of Assembly & Testing (A&T), you will lead assembly, testing and maintenance activities, across our CorPack wave cluster products including Wave Energy Converters (WECs), mooring, anchoring and collection hub solutions. Your team ensures our products are assembled, tested and maintained on schedule, meeting functionality, reliability and performance requirements.
The A&T team develops and documents procedures for next-generation products, delivering verified methods, tools and protocols that can be replicated by Operations & Maintenance (O&M) teams worldwide. Assembly and dry-testing of Power-Take Off (PTO) systems in Sweden as well as assembly, operations and maintenance of our demonstration farm off the coast in northern Portugal are part of the scope, where new tools and methods are tested and qualified for commercial use.
This role combines hands-on technical leadership, people leadership and program management across our sites. Travel between sites is required. You will work closely with Engineering, Supply Chain & Quality and Marine Operations teams to deliver new product programs.
Responsibilities
Technology & Product Leadership
- Hands-on technical leadership for Assembly, Testing and Operations, actively guiding the technical solutions being implemented.
- Program management to ensure products are assembled and tested on time, meeting functional, reliability, performance, and cost targets.
- Ensure compliance with industry, safety and environmental standards, always maintaining human safety as the top priority in all operations and development efforts.
- Guide product design to meet manufacturing, assembly and service requirements.
- Feedback insight from assembly, testing and operations to engineering teams to continuously improve product design and component selection.
- Ensure technology and operational decisions support scalability, manufacturability and industrialization.
- Interact with customers and stakeholders. Represent the company in dialogues related to Assembly, Testing and O&M methods.
- Select and implement digital tools, methods, and processes to enhance efficiency and quality.
- Ensure the organization's technology infrastructure supports its needs.
- Manage budgets and propose investments to the Management Team as needed.
People and Project Leadership
- People leadership across the A&T team, with engineers and technicians covering Assembly, Testing, Analysis, Operations, and Documentation functions.
- Plan and execute all Assembly & Test activities to meet schedule, cost and performance goals.
- Lead A&T team members across Product teams covering Wave Energy Converters and Collection hubs. Prioritize and supervise activities and deliverables.
- Support new product development projects from specification and planning through design, fabrication, assembly, installation, testing and certification.
- Ensure alignment across all stakeholders by maintaining clear communication, schedule updates and project reports.
- Lead, mentor, and inspire the team to create a culture of collaboration, , innovation, and continuous improvement towards business goals.
- Develop and execute a talent strategy to attract, retain, and grow top talent.
- Develop a work environment that supports each team member in reaching their full potential. Manage, support and evaluate engineers’ performance.
Skills and requirements
- Minimum of 10 years of experience leading assembly, integration and/or test teams developing advanced systems or equipment in industries relevant to ocean energy.
- Proven track record of developing new products through the full cycle – from specification and design through assembly testing and deployment, resulting in successful market introduction.
- Experience working in harsh environments such as offshore, mining, or other challenging industrial sectors with high reliability requirements is a plus.
- Experience in fast-paced companies is advantageous.
- Extraordinary energy and strong people leadership skills with a passion for coaching and developing teams to reach their full potential.
- Determination and stamina to lead projects through to completion, bringing confidence to teams that ambitious goals can be met, even under pressure.
- Skilled in modern tools for assembly, test and data analysis, with the ability to identify and implement efficient engineering systems and infrastructure.
- Proficient in English, both spoken and written. In addition, Swedish is desirable but not essential.
- Above all, we value your personality, drive and passion for advancing renewable energy technologies.
As a person, you:
- are striving for excellence, put quality into everything you do
- are self-motivated and constantly seek the most efficient ways to work
- search for simple and sustainable solutions to difficult problems
- love to learn new things, and take pride in constantly developing your skills
- are persistent, knowing it takes stamina to reach pioneering goals
- see your tasks through to completion
- are comfortable in presenting your solutions internally and externally
- are data driven and strive to always back your points with solid analysis
CorPower Ocean has a diverse team with many nationalities and backgrounds, all working towards the same goal: To Powe the Planet with clean energy from ocean waves.
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- Stockholm
Colleagues
Stockholm
Why join us ?
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Our mission
To bring competitive wave energy technology to the world, unlocking one of the largest untapped sources of renewable energy by harnessing the natural power of the oceans.
To solve a challenge that no one else has cracked before, whilst tackling climate change and achieving a sustainable low-carbon future.
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Your impact
Team members are given a high degree of autonomy and flexibility, combined with great personal responsibility. You will have the chance to face technical and commercial challenges that are complex to solve, cutting-edge and highly inspiring.
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Your wellbeing
We try and encourage a fun and intellectually stimulating work environment here at CorPower Ocean. Throughout the journey we share the highs and lows together, which brings us all closer together !
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Your benefits
We offer an attractive package including: competitive base salary, stock options , health & wellbeing support, pension plan, health insurance, and six weeks of paid vacation.
Join the Wave Technology revolution!
We are a dynamic, supportive, fun and a truly international team of more than 15 nationalities including industry experts, innovators, experienced interdisciplinary engineers and business professionals.
CPO strive to combine the best of world class knowledge from around the world with a true entrepreneurial spirit devoted to developing the best wave energy technology out there .
About CorPower Ocean
CorPower Ocean is a global leader in Wave Energy technology. The ocean forms one of the largest yet least explored renewable energy sources on earth. We bring a new class of high efficiency Wave Energy Converters (WECs) enabling robust and cost-effective harvesting of electricity from ocean waves. The design principle is inspired by the pumping principles of the human heart and offers five times more energy per ton of device compared to previously known technologies, allowing a large amount of energy to be harvested using a small and low-cost device. A unique transparent protection mode brings survivability in the toughest storm conditions. We are headquartered in Sweden with offices in Portugal, Scotland and Norway.
Founded in 2012
Co-workers About 90
INTEGRATION & TEST · Stockholm