Production Technology Manager

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a Production Technology Manager to join our stellar team 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 Production Technology Manager will be in charge of our Production Technology Team. As leader of the unit you will have the opportunity to build a competent and dependable team from scracth, capable to scale Northvolt’s operations in Sweden and beyond. You will be reporting to the Director of Production Technology.


Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:


- Contribute to strategic planning and decision-making so that the technology strategy is aligned with the long-term vision, mission, and objectives of the organization.
- Oversee the technology budget in own area (Downstream); monitor the cost and effectiveness of activities to optimize resources, prioritize spending, and maintain professional standards.
- Develop and maintain technical expertise in the production engineering organization; evaluate new technologies and advise the organization on appropriate investments.
- Lead, direct, evaluate, and develop professional engineering staff to ensure the quality, validity, and credibility of the organization's activities.
- Responsible for industrialization of new products at Northvolt Ett in Downstream process.
- Responsible for industrialization of new technology at Northvolt Ett in Downstream process.
- Responsible for ways of working in equipment, ensures SOP and WI for new equipment in Downstream.
- Ensures excellent working processes in own department and continuously develops them
- He/she has full managerial responsibility for the team.
- Accountable for developing new methods, tools and processes. Responsible for sharing of best practices.
- Ensure adherence to Northvolt Code of Conduct, applicable legislation and established policies and guidelines within area of responsibility.
- Accountable for environment, health and safety as per local legislation, policies etc.
- Identifies and resolves complex technical, operational and/or organizational problems.


The person we are looking for is strongly goal oriented, curious 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 requires and values great self-discipline and a natural talent to make things happen. The Production Technology Manager is a vital member of the Production Technology team and key to Northvolt's mission to enable the future of energy.


Apply with CV and cover letter or your complete LinkedIn profile.


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


- Master of science in mechanical/industrial/chemical engineering
- Proven Leadership in large Manufacturing Organizations (50+ people)
- Experience in the modern Operations Management principles: Lean, Kaizen, Six Sigma,
- Documented leadership training


Specific Skills/Abilities


- Excellent English written and oral skills, Swedish is a plus
- Visionary, need to be able to paint the picture of the near and far away future
- Challenges current behaviors and ways of working
- Close to employees, follow up, encourage, exceptional in feed forward and feedback
- Excellent in empowering people to make people act autonomously
- Role modelling, being bold, passionate and excellent
- Create team spirit and sense of belonging and relatedness in the team
- The ability to communicate guidelines to a multidisciplinary, as well as multinational, workforce is essential.
- Passionate about people and technology development
- Drive, making things happen
- Result oriented




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.