R&D Technician

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a R&D Technician to join our Västerås team. In joining us you will play an important part from the very start in developing a new generation of large-scale European battery factories. Northvolt will play an important role in the transformation to a carbon-free society, and this is your opportunity to take part in leading those efforts and help drive us to success.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Ensure safe operations by following safety procedures, rules and legislation and acting as a role model as well as assuring that everyone working in the area are following the standards.
Reporting and root cause analysis of deviations to and with Safety, Quality, Maintenance or others within the company according standards.
Assure that work is done according to SOP procedures and that SOPs are updated continuously when required together with process engineers.
Attend team meetings and proactively inform about improvement potentials.
Daily improvement work of safety, quality, yield, OEE, processes, planning, training materials.
Follow production schedule prepared by planners and prepare materials and resources to enable high quality of production.
Cooperation with maintenance and assure that preventive maintenance is made according to decided procedures and calibration routines.
Create, implement, improve and maintain high House keeping standards within working area.
Train others on equipment, methods, processes and company standards.
Take responsibility for establishing an excellent working culture with high level of engagement and positive attitude making things happen with good team spirit.
Takes on responsibility for specific task within team (safety, eqp, maintenance, quality, 5S or other)

Qualifications/education/experience
Competence in Safe operations within the area, handling of batteries and safety procedures.
Knows where to find critical safety information (Safety Data Sheets, First Aid)
Understand the basics of battery production work flow production.
Knows the policies of the company, the objectives of the area and the KPIs for the department.
Knows where to find SOPs, Work Instructions, routines and information.
Understands and act according to Clean-and dry room training
Has got training on how to run the equipment and log important information and key parameters.
Can operate the equipment with supervision.
The technician can perform the in line checks necessary to complete the operation task of the equipment with supervision.

Specific skills
Merit with excellent safety skills for chemicals and equipment
Fluency in English, written and oral.
Elementary computer skills (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, Sharepoint)
Merit with previous experience from clean- or Dry room and process industry.
Valuable (but not required) if fluent in other languages, including Swedish.
Problem solving
Merit with Mechanical or electrical skills and preventive maintenance experience

Apply with CV in English or your complete LinkedIn profile.
Full time employment, fixed salary.
Planned starting date is ASAP.