Technical Project Coordinator

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a Technical Project Coordinator 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 Technical Coordinator is the main bridge between commissioning phase and production ramp up. They will support the Production Engineers as Process Team finalize commissioning and prepare the production team to take over the lines. Once production has started, the Technical Coordinator is monitoring performance and yield of the lines and supports projects to reduce the top losses in both categories. As the initial full data collection for performance and yield is not yet available, the Technical Coordinator will work with the information available.

The Technical Coordinator supports optimization of the performance of the lines. They will work with a cross functional team. They will support the root cause analysis of equipment based on top losses and minor stops. They will monitor the loss data and support the groups needed to tackle the losses.

This role will allow you to enhance/increase your current understanding of the equipment and process and utilize it to support a path to a zero-loss concept to optimize the line and maintain quality performance.

The Technical Coordinator role requires the capability to support root cause analysis, ability to collaborate with multiple different teams and personalities, time management skills, engineering capability of smaller scope projects, data analysis skills, organizational skills, problem solving skills and willingness to step into improvement activities for Production as they are identified.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor loss data and identify top losses
• Basic root cause analysis of top losses
• Project support to eliminate top losses
• Collaborate with Production Engineering to support root cause analysis
• Facilitate a smooth ramp up/production phase

Requirements

• High school degree with technical background, BSc or MSc degree in mechanical or chemical engineering is a plus
• 1+ years of relevant work experience within production and engineering related fields
• Familiar with QA troubleshooting tools
• Successful track record of supporting process improvement projects in a production factory
• Experience from scaling production in a fast-growing environment ideally in the Battery, Food, Pharma, Paper & Pulp, Semiconductor, Electrochemical or similar industry
• Curious, technically educated, and preferably with a strong business background problem solving background
• Experience and interest trouble shooting and continuous improvement
• Basic root cause analysis skills
• Familiar with OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency) metric

Specific skills

• Highly organized and result-driven
• Proactive and goes beyond expectations
• Exceptionally good negotiation and problem-solving skills
• 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
• Excellent English written and oral skills, Swedish is a plus