Project Manager Upstream

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a Project Manager to join our excellent Program Management team in Stockholm.

The Program Team is responsible for delivering Northvolt Ett, the large-scale battery factory being built in Northern Sweden. As a Project Manager you will assist (and also lead several sub projects) in ramping up a subset of the factory, safely within budget and on schedule. Responsibilities will cover both the design and execution phase.

The Project Manager role is a highly coordinating role with main interfaces being engineering, planning, construction and commissioning (both internal team and external consultants). You will spend your time cross-functionally understanding and prioritising tasks, giving you an overall understanding of the projects complexity.

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.

You will be working intimately with other members of the Program Team and report to the Program Manager.

Regular travel to the project site in Skellefteå (Northern Sweden) is expected.

In general you have a extensive experience driving large projects in the chemical process or mineral processing industry which has given you a well-rounded project experience in design engineering, construction and commissioning.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Project management of a subset of the Upstream program, including:
- Coordination of Northvolt and contractor resources
- Coordination of basic and detail engineering design.
- Change management
- Planning through all phases of the project
- Monitor costs and budgets
- Schedule control and integration
- Interface management
- Monitor Health, Safety and Environmental performance
- Monitor Quality

The person we are looking for has a strong background from Chemical Processing, Oil & Gas, Mining, Mineral Processing or similar. As a person you are strongly goal oriented, curious and eager to learn.

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

Full time employment, fixed salary.
Starting date to be mutually agreed upon.

Education/Experience

- A degree in engineering
- Well-rounded project experience in design engineering, construction and commissioning.
- Industrial background - Chemical Processing, Oil & Gas, Mining, Mineral Processing or similar.
- Previous experience as Project Leader or Project Engineer on multidiscipline projects.
- Preferably 5+ years of relevant experience.

Specific Skills/Abilities

- Passionate & purpose driven
- Fluency in English
- Navisworks
- MS Office
- Ability to work well with others in a team environment, as well as independently
- Ability to work in a high profile and often high pressured international environment
- Qualities that we cherish are flexibility, sense of quality, friendliness, motivation to take on new challenges, grit and a sense of humor


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 two gigafactories: Northvolt Ett in Skellefteå, Sweden, and Northvolt Zwei in Salzgitter, Germany. 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.