Production Quality Associate

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a Process Quality Associate to join our passionate Quality team to support our electrode production line in Northvolt Ett, our Gigafactory located in Skellefteå.

The Process Quality Associate will be in charge of product quality compliance in our production line. You will be responsible for confirming key quality attributes of intermediate products and processes, identifying and responding to non-conformity issues in production.

The Process Quality Associate will work closely with production staff and Process Quality Technicians and Engineers. Working shifts is required as operations ramp up. Flexibility and willingness to do overtime to cover production peaks is expected. Primary goal for this position is to help ensure quality along all production steps and product outcome to create a stable process environment during production. Previous experience in a production environment is a plus.

You will be responsible for ensuring that production processes and products meet the Northvolt’s and Customers’ quality specifications, defining in-line problems and recommending and following-up on improvements.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

· Lead day-to-day quality assurance activities in production ensuring that production/product quality specifications are met.

· Operate various analytical equipment such as a Karl Fischer, measurement by ruler or micrometer, microscopes etc.

· Ensure control checks are completed according to control plan.

· Ensure imminent containment activities and decision making in case of non-conformities and quality issues

· Provide trainings to employees.

· Participate in and improve 5S methodology and actions together with production team

The person we are looking for is strongly goal oriented, curious and eager to learn. Drive and passion are coded in your DNA. You will get the chance to have a real impact on our success story in Sweden and see the results of your work. Our organisation requires and values great self-discipline and a natural talent to make things happen. The Process Quality Associate is a vital member of the Quality and Production teams and key to Northvolt's mission to enable the future of energy.

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Full time employment, fixed salary.

Planned starting date is ASAP
Skills & Requirements

Education/Experience

· Experience from quality control and assurance on the manufacturing shop floor is a plus

· Experience with high volume serial manufacturing processes is a plus

· Curious, eager to acquire technical knowledge and preferably with a strong business awareness

Specific Skills/Abilities

· Excellent English written and oral skills, Swedish is a plus

· Highly organised and results driven

· Eye for details

· Proactive and goes beyond expectations

· Able to learn and acquire new information and skills very quickly

· Exceptionally good problem-solving skills

· Has a "can do" attitude and an entrepreneurial spirit

· Ability to work under high pressure and tight deadlines, excellent time management

· Ability to work well with others in a team environment, as well as independently

· Ability to work in a high profile and often high-pressure international environment

· Qualities that we cherish are flexibility, sense of quality, friendliness, motivation to take on new challenges, grit and a sense of humor

· Passionate & purpose driven

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.