HSE Specialist/Engineer

Recharge your career with NOVO Energy and Northvolt

The Swedish battery industry is expanding rapidly, with the establishment of NOVO Energy's gigafactory in Gothenburg, and Northvolt's continued growth creating thousands of exciting career opportunities across the country.

If you're curious about making the switch to a career in battery production, this program will offer you the support, learning and skills needed to become part of this innovative industry and expand your career.

Our partnership and the program

NOVO Energy and Northvolt is a partnership of strength and collaboration. We share a common purpose; to make green batteries for a blue planet and build a sustainable industry that enables the green energy transition.

To make our purpose reality we're growing local talent and are now offering the opportunity to join our fully paid exchange program. Designed to equip you with the skills needed to transition into this dynamic industry. In this program you will:

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Work with and learn from industry experts in a fully paid role at Northvolt in Skellefteå for 18-24 months.

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Develop skills and knowledge to set you up for the future.

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Experience living and working in beautiful Skellefteå.

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Become part of a core group of specially trained employees.

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Return to Gothenburg and NOVO Energy to a guaranteed job in our new Gigafactory.


HSE Specialist/Engineer

In your role as Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) Specialist/Engineer you will have a key function in the HSE organization, ensuring compliance and proactively develop the HSE-work at the production site. For this position, it is important that you have a documented operational experience within health, safety, environment and risk management and have an understanding for the requirements put on a complex situation. Our organization values great self-discipline and a natural talent to make things happen.

Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

- Ensuring compliance with relevant health, safety and environmental legislation for the manufacturing site, including setting up necessary systems and procedures in accordance with the requirements of ISO 45001 and internal standards
- Implementation of routines and processes
- Super user in our system for accidents and incidents including training colleagues in the system
- Follow up on HSE-performance based on data from the system
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Train colleagues in areas such as risk assessments, PPE, chemicals and waste management

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Identifying gaps when present and ensuring that action plans is both developed and executed on time.


We believe that you have:

- University (or advanced) degree within health, safety and environmental engineering, risk management, work environment or similar
- Broad working experience within the environmental field IN SWEDEN (this is a must-have), and good working knowledge of Swedish environmental legislation
- 2+ years of working experience in manufacturing, construction, or chemical industry.
- Experience working with certified management systems, for example ISO 45001, OHSAS18001, ISO 14011 or similar.
- Excellent English, written and oral skills
- Working business-level reading, writing, and speaking proficiency in Swedish

Join us and become part of this exciting journey

If this sounds like the opportunity you've been looking for, make sure to apply today. We promise you a competitive salary and lots of perks, frequent trips home to stay connected with family and friends, an out-of-the ordinary learning experience with Northvolt and a guaranteed job at the NOVO Gigafactory in Gothenburg at the completion of your program.


Volvo Cars is one of the most well-known and respected car brands in the world. Northvolt is a leading supplier of sustainable, high-quality battery cells and systems, dedicated to delivering the world’s greenest lithium-ion battery. Together, we have formed a joint venture, NOVO Energy, to power the next generation of pure electric Volvo and Polestar cars.

Our Gigafactory in Gothenburg will be one of the largest cell production facilities in Europe, with a potential annual cell production capacity of up to 50 gigawatt hours (GWh) - thereby enabling a supply of batteries for approximately half a million Volvo and Polestar cars per year. Our state-of-the-art R&D facility will gather leading expertise from all over the world, to create the next generation battery cells.

You can read more about this joint venture in these press releases, here and here.