Lead Shift Manager Process

We are looking for a experienced lead shift manager to join us in our mission to contribute to a greener future. The role is a part of our excellent Upstream team based in Skellefteå. By joining us, you will be a key player in establishing up Upstream and contribute to building one of the first large scale European battery factories.

About the job

At Northvolt you will be part of a fast growing company with high-energy and a dynamic environment. As a lead shift manager you will work in a top modern facility with new technology. So forget about everything you thought you knew about working in the industry, this is going to be completely different.

You will be coordinate between all process areas in Upstream. Act as emergency response leader. Lead the shift. Supervise and support employees. Ensure that standards are followed and employees are trained. Follow up shift performance and continuously look for improvement. Act on deviations and work with support functions to solve problems in long-term solution.

You will work in close collaboration with other shift managers, maintenance, quality and environment personnel. You will lead a shift team of around 10 employees where each and every one counts to make this a success. You will get the chance to make an impact and be part of shaping our way of working in the future. We work hard to create a good work environment, to make room for creativity, initiatives for improvement and a possibility for people to grow. We aim to become the worlds' most equal and inclusive workplace.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Ensure that SOP’s and WI’s are followed
- Train employees in SOP’s and WI’s
- Ensure development of employees (Technical, SOP’S, WI’s, Team development and behaviours)
- Suggest improvements and ensure improvements are being implemented when decided
- Supervise and support employees
- Assigns tasks and responsibilities to employees, as the employer’s representative
- Make sure check in, pulse meetings, other meetings are held as planned
- Follow up shift performance and act on deviations
- Calls in replacements in the event of an employee call-in or no-show.
- Communicates with other shifts to ensure good handover and standardization
- Communicate and cooperate with support functions to improve manufacturing
- Adhere to and enforce company policies and guidelines.
- Enforce the proper disciplinary measures when employees fail to adhere to company policy
- Recruit for own team
- Develop a team spirit that creates energy, encourages compliance with company standards and employment guidelines
- Follow up on performance metrics (competence matrix) for each team member and then work with team members to make sure that all metrics are met
- Participate and run the work team together with the manager. The duties consist of, among other things, production management, planning, quality, environmental and work environment work."
- Responsible for ensuring that the work is carried out according to current instructions and that the safety regulations are followed."
- Process area responsibility and coordinates the work with subcontractors, such as inspections and subcontracting work
- Technical knowledge over all Upstream process areas.
- Liaise between the areas in production and manage escalation to higher manager and other support functions.
- To ensure that our quality assurance systems such as 5S maintain an ongoing higher standard.

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. For us it’s important to look at your skills and potential, please refrain form including your picture and age with your application to help us with this.

Apply with CV in English or your complete LinkedIn profile.

Full time employment, fixed salary.
Planned starting date is asap.
We believe that you have :

- High school diploma
- 5+ years of experience in manufacturing
- Leadership or management experience
- Knowledge and experience of lean manufacturing

Bonus points for:

- Challenges, in a bold way, current behaviours and ways of working
- Close to employees, follow up, encourage, very good in feed forward and feedback
- Very good in empowering people to make people act
- Role modelling, being the safe and healthy role model
- Create team spirit, sense of belonging and relatedness in the team
- The ability to communicate to a multidisciplinary, as well as multinational, workforce is essential.
- Strong verbal, written communication skills
- Ability to interact effectively with all levels of employees and management.


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.