Design Manager - Site Integration

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a Design Manager to join our team . In joining us you will play an important part in the construction of our large scale European battery factories. Northvolt will play an important role in the transformation to a carbon free society.

As a Design Manager - Site Integration, you will work in a cross-functional highly motivated team to drive the factory design and maintain and continuously improve the blueprint as the backbone for key building blocks of the large-scale battery factory.

You will also support and collaborate with the Northvolt factory programs from the different sites in Europe and Worldwide to deploy and leverage the factory design for a more efficient and speedy delivery. Your responsibilities will range from concept phase up to the end of basic design, and also supporting the site programs during the detail design and execution.

The Blueprint & Factory Engineering team was created to deliver on Northvolt’s vision and bold expansion plans. The team’s mission is to deliver a digital factory blueprint of a scalable, rapidly deployable, highly efficient world class battery factory. It constitutes a comprehensive solution with guidelines and tools needed for establishment of the factory spanning process, equipment, materials, facility, utilities and people.

To summarize, Blueprint & Factory Engineering is a highly strategic but also execution oriented and cross functional team which aids Northvolt in our mission to enable the future of energy.

Key responsibilities

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Drive and manage, together with a cross-functional team within Northvolt, the design of a key building block in our factory blueprint.

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Set the direction and drive technical decisions on the design to ensure that the factory site designs are competitive (cost/performance), modular, easy to ramp up, and possible to operate in a sustainable way.

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Organize and manage design reviews, construction design packages and deliverables to support all aspects of construction, including scope of work, kick-off, studies, 30-60-90, etc.

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Capture Lessons Learnt to address critical issues and prevent repeated mistakes while contributing to building a learning organization.

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Provide technical support during Detail Design and Execution phases.

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Develop & drive standards for key design documents.

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Be able to identify user requirements and scope gaps during the project, acting as the main integrator for the factory site design and its interfaces.

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Enable suitable project delivery methods, like integrated engineering project development, and fast track projects.

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Perform design option analysis for cost efficiency, constructability, etc.


The person we are looking for is flexible, curios 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 values great self-discipline and a natural talent to make things happen. Qualities that we cherish are sense of quality, friendliness, grit and a sense of humor.

Northvolt is an equal opportunity employer. We're a diverse group of individuals, united by a common mission, who recognise that while our actions as individuals have a role to play in driving Northvolt towards its goals, we always seek to move forward as a team. We offer you an open and welcoming atmosphere where we win as a team – and fail as a team. Northvolt is growing at the speed of light and we are a strong believer in internal career development.

Apply with CV in English or your complete LinkedIn profile.

Full time employment, fixed salary.
Planned starting date is asap.


Qualifications/education/experience

- Bachelors’ Degree in Architectural, civil, electrical, mechanical, structural or equivalent.
- 10+ years working experience, preferably coordinating cross-functional teams and managing resources.
- Excellent English written and oral skills.
- Experience driving complex industrial projects and broad understanding of engineering disciplines.

Bonus points for:

- Proficient in MS Suite.
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Fluency in other languages (Swedish, German).

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Experience in multi-cultural environments.

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Ability to work under high pressure and tight deadlines.


Personal success factors :

- Methodological and structured way of working
- Detailed and meticulous
- Persistent in driving your work
- Ability to work with proactively and influence others, as well as work independently
- Able to build strong trusting relationships with stakeholders
- You are a team player, flexible, curious, and eager to learn.

Additional Highlights

- Location: Stockholm - Sweden
- Travel: expected part of the role
- Language: Professional English


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 gigafactory Northvolt Ett in Skellefteå, Sweden. 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.