Associate Production Engineer

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for an Associate Production Engineer to join our Skellefteå team.

In joining us you will play an important part from the very start in developing a new generation of large-scale European battery factories. Northvolt will play an important role in the transformation to a carbon-free society, and this is your opportunity to take part in leading those efforts and help drive us to success.

The Associate Production Engineer is the main bridge between commissioning phase and production ramp up. They will work closely with the Process Engineers as Process Team finalize commissioning and prepare the production team to take over the lines. Once the production has started, the Associate Production Engineer is reviewing performance and yield of the lines and launch projects to reduce the top losses in both categories. As the initial full data collection for performance and yield is not yet available, the Production Engineering team will work to enhance the data collection strategy while simultaneously working with the information available.

The Production Engineer is responsible for optimizing the performance of the lines. They will work with a cross-functional team and lead the root cause analysis of equipment based top losses and minor stops. They will analyze the loss data and pull in the groups needed to tackle the losses.

Key responsibilities

• Review loss data and identify top losses
• Lead and support deep root cause analysis of top losses
• Lead and support improvement activities for Production as they are identified
• Project launch to eliminate top losses
• Documentation review to ensure proper documentation package is available post-commissioning
• Be in close collaboration with Production team
• Facilitate a smooth transition between commissioning phase and ramp up/production phase

Requirements

Qualifications and experience

• BSc or MSc degree in mechanical or chemical engineering
• 1+ years of relevant work experience within production and engineering related fields, such as Battery, food, pharma, paper & pulp, semiconductor or Electrochemical
• Familiar with QA troubleshooting tools
• Familiar with OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency) metric

Specific skills

• Highly organized and result-driven
• Root cause analysis skills
• Curious, technically educated, and preferably with a strong problem solving background.
• Proactive and goes beyond expectations
• Exceptionally good negotiation and problem-solving skills

Personal success factors

• Extremely detail oriented
• Has a "can-do" attitude and an entrepreneurial spirit
• Passionate & purpose-driven
• Ability to work well with others in a team environment, as well as independently
• Ability to work under high pressure and tight deadlines, excellent time management
• Ability to work in a high profile and often high-pressure international environment
• Qualities that we cherish are flexibility, sense of quality, friendliness, motivation to take on new challenges, grit and a sense of humour
• Excellent English written and oral skills, Swedish is a plus

Apply with CV in English or your complete LinkedIn profile.

Full time employment, fixed salary.

Planned starting date is ASAP