Quality Control Technician

Use your curiosity and knowledge to create the world’s greenest batteries.

The Northvolt Quality Control team in Ett is looking for driven young engineers or soon-to-be engineers, preferably with chemical or mechanical background. You will be working on various analyses, controls and tests of battery materials, components, intermediate product and finished Li-ion cells. We believe you have studied chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science, chemistry or similar including laboratory work and as a person you are curious about the world of quality. Join the innovative, enthusiastic and friendly Quality team!

Since our factory in Skellefteå still is being constructed, you will start your journey in Västerås for training before relocating to Skellefteå and Northvolt Ett. You will join the Quality team in Västerås to be trained to independently run advanced instruments and equipment in laboratory and get familiar with the Northvolt environment before you relocate to our Gigafactory in Skellefteå

We will support you in terms of relocating to Västerås and back to Skellefteå.

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 organisation requires and values great self-discipline and a natural talent to make things happen.

Quality Team

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

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

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Understand and be part of method development and validation. Don’t worry – we will train you!

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Operate various analytical equipment such as ICP, KF and acid-base titrators, rheometers, BET, GC-MS, SEM, XRD, PSD, CT scanner, dimension measurement systems (2D and 3D), optical microscopes, tensile testers, etc.

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Improve control checks according to control plan.

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Interpret data and report data/results vs specification

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Report problems and non-conformities (NCRs) that are detected and recommend the improvements.


Education/Experience

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Bachelor´s degree (or technical school degree) in Chemical or Material Engineering or equivalent professional experience

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Experience from quality control and assurance on the manufacturing shop floor

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Experience in yearly, monthly, weekly and up to date reporting

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Specific knowledge of quality management systems, e.g. ISO 9001, IATF16949, TQM

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Familiar with SPC, FMEA, Quality troubleshooting tools and problem-solving methodology

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Curious, technically educated and preferably with a strong business background


Specific Skills/Abilities

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Excellent English written and oral skills, Swedish is a plus

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Highly organised and results driven

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An eye for details

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Proactive and goes beyond expectations

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Able to learn and acquire new information very quickly



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.