Central maintenance manager

Northvolt has an exciting job opportunity for a central maintenance manager at Northvolt Ett in Skellefteå.
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.
The central maintenance manager will support NVETT with high quality internal tooling and refurbishing capability and other areas of service expertise deemed as business critical.
Key responsibilities include: (but are not limited to)
Implement, manage, and enforce health and safety policies and procedures.
Main responsible for development of central workshop and surrounding area.
Strive for and develop cost efficient tooling capabilities by strong analytics.
Responsible for setting strategies together with purchasing for what need to be refurbished internally and what should be outsourced.
Create and execute a plan for flow of repairable spare parts and support the direct maintenance teams with efficient solutions and troubleshooting when needed.
Create, continuously improve, document, and make available for maintenance purpose: General maintenance Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) Work instructions, Defect Libraries, Deviation, Reports with root cause analysis, Measure and follow up on results.
Cross functional cooperation across different departments and facilities is essential to accelerate knowhow, transfer input to design team, process engineering team and purchasing team when ordering new machines and equipment.
Continuous improvement organization: using data driven approaches to increase cost efficiency, organization efficiency and service level of organization.
Budget for investment: The central maintenance manager shall prepare, seek approval, and manage the investment and maintenance budget for his/her area (beyond major expansion projects that will be planned by the Project Organization)



Qualifications/education/experience
BSc or MSc in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or equivalent University degree with good understanding of basic financial principles
Proven leadership in large manufacturing organizations (50+ people)
Minimum 5-10 years’ experience of similar role with management and manufacturing
An example driven management of the shop floor. Resolute 5S
Capacity to move from strategic level to problem solving leader in the matter of seconds
Specific skills (eg specific programmes, languages, certifications etc)
Must be fluent in English, written and oral
Swedish language is to be seen as an advantage but not a must.
Knowledge of European legislation and work environment