Automation Engineers

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a Automation Engineer to join our passionate team in Stockholm.

In joining us you will play an important part from the very start in building one of the first large scale European battery factories. Northvolt will play an important role in the transformation to a carbon free society. In this role you will be a part of Northvolt Battery Systems that offers a range of building blocks, packs and racks as well as complete scalable systems to support our customer battery business needs.

As a Automation Engineering you will be working intimately with the industrialisation and manufacturing teams to design and implement a highly automated production process both in terms of production process control, material handling and robotics.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Defining and development of automation requirements specification and control system architecture
- Design, implement and testing of PLC code delivering desired system functionality
- Creating test protocols for automation solutions
- Design and implement automation systems for advanced factories, consisting of conveyors, vision systems, AGV’s and specialized manufacturing equipment
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Identify and interact with key automation solution suppliers, including assembly equipment, robotics, AGV’s, motion control suppliers.

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You have experience in driving innovative and challenging automation projects with very high demand on accuracy and scale.

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You have a deep understanding and hands-on experience of integrating very diverse, complex, equipment into higher automation layers developing some of the most advanced control systems in the world.

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You work with the factory design and manufacturing engineering teams, translating their inputs into crisp specifications.


The person we are looking for is strongly goal oriented, curious and eager to learn. You will get the chance to have a real impact on our success story in Sweden (to start with) and see the results of your work. Our organization requires and values great self-discipline and a natural talent to make things happen.

Apply with English CV and your complete LinkedIn profile.
Education/Experience

- Degree in Electronics, Mechatronics, Software Engineering or similar
- 5+ years of experience within Industrial Automation in automated manufacturing environments such as: automotive, semiconductors, pharmaceutical, medical devices etc.
- 3+ years PLC/SCADA programming, especially Siemens TIA portal systems and Beckhoff
- 3+ years in OPC connectivity and MES interfaces
- Experience developing robot cell in manufacturing, preferably with KUKA, FANUC or ABB robots
- Experience in writing technical documentation (Requirement specifications, Functional design, UML, Test Cases, Test Records)

Specific Skills/Abilities

- Excellent English written and oral skills
- Knowledge of version control systems
- Enterprise networking infrastructure knowledge (Routers, firewalls, sub-netting etc.)
- Understanding of different layers of Automation Pyramid
- Experience with OPC UA and PackML is an advantage
- Experience with offline robot programming tools like RoboDK is an advantage
- ABB 800xA DCS programming is an advantage


Northvolt makes green batteries for a blue planet. Affordable cells and high-quality battery systems. All manufactured with a record-low carbon footprint. Purposely built to provide Europe with the opportunity to switch to renewable energy – efficiently and entirely.

To accomplish this, we do things differently. We design, manufacture, and recycle everything under one roof. We even build our own factories. All this is incredibly challenging and requires us to think in unconventional ways. We’re constantly experimenting, learning and adapting to make batteries so great – they will one day make oil history.

Northvolt is growing fast. We’re staffing our international office in Stockholm, our R&D facility, Northvolt Labs, in Västerås, as well as our Gdansk facility for production of battery systems. We're also hiring for our two gigafactories: Northvolt Ett in Skellefteå, Sweden, and Northvolt Zwei in Salzgitter, Germany. We want to work with smart individuals from all disciplines. Strong individuals that truly want to make a positive impact on the future. Those of us already on board share a passion for our mission. We’re prepared to work hard in pursuit of excellence. We enjoy the ride and our main drive is to make a difference for real. As a team, we’re dedicated to thinking new, working hard and having fun.