A world-leading technology supplier to the most demanding customers in the market

To coordinate efforts between each of our units, we have a global management team consisting of the managers of each department (sales, technical/project, sourcing, quality, finance and production). The most important role of the department heads is to drive ongoing improvement of the department and ensure its contribution to our goals of growth, profitability and job satisfaction/engagement.

Erik Haraldsson is the Technical & Project Director and serves on both our global management team and the local management team in Anderstorp.

”My job is to keep the KB Group on the cutting edge of technology and processes. I am often directly involved in customer enquiries and ensure optimal use of our technical resources. In Technical & Project, you regularly support your colleagues around the world, which is both stimulating and fruitful.”

Sofia Johansson works as a strategic purchaser at our headquarters in Örkelljunga.

”My most important role is to ensure that all our companies get the best terms possible from our suppliers. We improve our supplier base on an ongoing basis, and we leverage our global presence and the entire group’s purchasing volume to help win new business and improve the Group’s profitability.”

Sofia is also a strong ambassador for our efforts to create a Great Place to Work and serves on the activity committee in Örkelljunga.

Pär Nilsson is a KAM for several of our industrial customers. Pär lives in Jönköping but has customers around the world with production at our units in Sweden, Lithuania, Slovakia and China.

”As a member of the KB Components sales staff, you’ll constantly seek to understand your customers’ needs and help them be more competitive. The job has a lot of variety, ranging from taking the lead on large quotes to assisting in the development of new products and the management of complaints and returns.”

Mats Nyberg works as a metrology engineer at our unit in Örkelljunga.

”As a metrology engineer, you’ll ensure that products meet customers’ geometric requirements. Much of my work is done using our programmable/CNC-controlled coordinate measuring machines, which are equipped with features including a laser scanner. This enables both on-site and remote measurement in the same measurement program, which is directly linked to 3D drawing. I feel it’s important to adapt customer requirement specifications to modern methods, opening the door to the amazing possibilities of new technology – effective evaluation and easily comprehensible measurement results. Working in the Technical & Project department demands curiosity and a constant willingness to learn more and share your expertise both internally and with our customers.”

Elisabeth Gyllenskiöld works as an HR manager at our headquarters in Örkelljunga.

”My job includes everything from recruiting new employees to assisting in reorganization processes and negotiations with our union representatives. Working for a company whose owners and management so clearly emphasize the importance of job satisfaction and engagement is very stimulating. I serve on the Great Place To Work steering committee and collaborate closely with each of the department heads. We work with external consultants on leadership and HR training to help achieve our goals.”

The primary task of the PPT department is to trial new incoming tools/products and start up production while also providing support to production in the event of production disturbances. At PPT, we also program robots and set up automation, draft instructions and procedures, and document all of this. PPT often calculates the costs associated with new product, giving us an important role when the sales staff delivers quotes.

Jörgen Jönsson works as a process engineer.

”My job includes drawing up requirement specifications for machines and robots for KB to buy, cycle time calculations and work instructions. I also provide training and briefing on the new products, which is in fact the primary task of this department. That is to say, preparing run data to analyse for these products.” Other parts of my job include rationalization, continuous improvements and supporting Production because we have many advanced products and processes.

I’ve had two stints with KB (totalling just over 28 years), both enjoyable, mainly because of the wide variety of my tasks and the great people here. KB is home to many people with solid and broad knowledge, and it’s also both positive and fun to see so much reinvested back into the company.”