Schneider Electric
Project Manager - Fire & Security
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Are you our next Project Manager?
Are you an experienced Project Manager or product development professional looking to take the next step in driving complex engineering programs? We’re seeking a proactive leader with strong execution skills and a passion for 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
- Lead program and project execution for our fire and security software offering
- Deliver with Precision: Ensure timely, high-quality delivery with high sense of ownership and accountability for the product portfolio.
- Ownership of full life-cycle delivery for complex, multi-disciplinary engineering programs (requirements definition → architecture → development → testing → industrialization → launch).
- Collaborate Globally: Work across functions in a large, global matrix organization, adapting to time zones as needed. Foster a positive collaborative working environment.
- Being the driving force, highlight problems with the right nuance and simultaneously be mindful of our culture to put people first.
- Having full execution responsibility to meet budget, time plan and quality objectives and communicate efficiently to stakeholders
- Engage with state-of-the-art Fire detection and Access control technologies—including Fire Detection & Access Control softwares and integrations with 3rd party systems —while providing project leadership in a rapidly evolving market that delivers significant positive environmental impact.
Essential for the role
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in project/ program management
- Preference for Advanced Degree and/or Project Management certificate
- Experience leading the end-to-end delivery of new software platforms, from requirements definition and architecture alignment through development, deployment, and commercial release.
- Demonstrated experience managing the continuous development and enhancement of existing software platforms, including regular release cycles, feature expansions, performance improvements, and technology upgrades.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams including Software Engineering, Product Management, QA, UX, DevOps, Cybersecurity, and System Integration teams.
- (Preferred) Demonstrated experience working with Fire Detection & Fire Alarm systems, Access Control, Video Management Systems (VMS), integrations with Building Management System (BMS), third-party APIs and SDKs, related security technologies and applicable standards.
- (Preferred) Experience working within Fire & Life Safety, Access Control, Physical Security, Smart Buildings, Building Automation, or related regulated industries is highly preferred.
- Experience 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
- Structure as a personal strength to build plans, takes decisions based on time aspects, create clarity and provide right amount of structure to make the team successful.
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Location and Language requirements
- Based in or willing to relocating to Lund, Sweden.
- Language skills: Fluent advanced English (Swedish is a plus)
Why Schneider Electric?
- 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.
Where can I find out more?
- About Schneider Electric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbldHPFltQQ
- We are proudly #1 in the World’s Most Sustainable Corporation 2025
- Please study our product ranges SpaceLogic and EasyLogic Automation servers and Room controllers on our webpage se.com
At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work.
Our Total Rewards is our way of saying: “We see you. We value you”. It’s more than just pay and benefits – it’s a meaningful investment in you. It is designed for you to perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential to shine as an impact maker.
Schneider Electric is there when it matters most to you
Our Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you’ll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team:
- Care for Yourself and Your Family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: important insurances, paid leave, parental and care leave, wellness contribution, flexible working options, employee counseling and a Benefits Portal with various deals and discounts.
- Invest and Plan Your Future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs: your base salary, bonus programs, opportunities to own company shares, discounts on company products, referral bonus, pension plans and a digital pension advisory tool.
- Grow Your Skills and Career. We commit to helping you grow with ongoing performance and development conversations, global career opportunities, access to our Schneider Career Hub for new positions, projects, and mentors, and learning platforms to equip you with the skills for today and tomorrow.
- Team Up in the Workplace. We encourage teaming up through smart ways to collaborate, employee associations, celebrating contributions via a recognition portal, sharing your voice in our engagement survey, and fostering an inclusive, caring workplace.
- Support Your Community. We make a difference in your community with volunteer leave, programs through Schneider Electric Foundation, and initiatives that support education.
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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.
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€40 billion global revenue
+9% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
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