R&D Technician

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a R&D Technician to join our Västerås 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.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Ensure safe operations by following safety procedures, rules and legislation and acting as a role model as well as assuring that everyone working in the area are following the standards.
• Reporting and root cause analysis of deviations to and with Safety, Quality, Maintenance or others within the company according standards.
• Assure that work is done according to SOP procedures and that SOPs are updated continuously when required together with process engineers.
• Attend team meetings and proactively inform about improvement potentials.
• Daily improvement work of safety, quality, yield, OEE, processes, planning, training materials.
• Follow production schedule prepared by planners and prepare materials and resources to enable high quality of production.
• Cooperation with maintenance and assure that preventive maintenance is made according to decided procedures and calibration routines.
• Create, implement, improve and maintain high House keeping standards within working area.
• Train others on equipment, methods, processes and company standards.
• Take responsibility for establishing an excellent working culture with high level of engagement and positive attitude making things happen with good team spirit.
• Takes on responsibility for specific task within team (safety, eqp, maintenance, quality, 5S or other)

Qualifications/education/experience

• Competence in Safe operations within the area, handling of batteries and safety procedures.
• Knows where to find critical safety information (Safety Data Sheets, First Aid)
• Understand the basics of battery production work flow production.
• Knows the policies of the company, the objectives of the area and the KPIs for the department.
• Knows where to find SOPs, Work Instructions, routines and information.
• Understands and act according to Clean-and dry room training
• Has got training on how to run the equipment and log important information and key parameters.
• Can operate the equipment with supervision.
• The technician can perform the in line checks necessary to complete the operation task of the equipment with supervision.

Specific skills

• Merit with excellent safety skills for chemicals and equipment
• Fluency in English, written and oral.
• Elementary computer skills (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, Sharepoint)
• Merit with previous experience from clean- or Dry room and process industry.
• Valuable (but not required) if fluent in other languages, including Swedish.
• Problem solving
• Merit with Mechanical or electrical skills and preventive maintenance experience

Apply with CV in English or your complete LinkedIn profile.

Full time employment, fixed salary.

Planned starting date is ASAP.