Senior Manager Engineering

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a Senior Manager Engineering to join our stellar team.
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.
In the role as Senior Manager Engineering you are responsible for overall engineering management related to industrial upstream process engineering projects for Northvolt’s advanced factories, including design and implementation of new technologies and specialized battery manufacturing equipment.
Key responsibilites include (but are not limited to)
Responsible for managing teams of Engineers, Engineering Managers and vendors to design and deliver industrial process equipment achieving aggressive yield and rate targets against tight deadlines optimizing following factors:
Quality
Capacity / CAPEX
Cost of manufacturing
OEE
Responsible for managing projects, timelines, budget and track progress on projects focusing on downstream process engineering.
Responsible to secure engineering team growth and competence development as well as long term employee development and employee satisfaction.
Responsible to both establish and secure compliance with standards and procedures.
Responsible to secure and enable cross functional integration to relevant engineering teams to define interfaces for advanced real time monitoring, production control and optimization.
Responsible to define and contribute to process engineering Blueprint deliveries. (Blueprint is referring to a lean, standardized and a flexible enough solution for a designated factory block to easily be adopted and scaled.)



Requirements: Education or other qualifications or competences relevant in order to succeed in the job
B.Sc. or M.Sc. in mechanical, chemical, industrial manufacturing engineering or similar
Extensive project management experience in demanding industrial environments
Experienced in managing people in multi-cultural environments
Technical experienced in development of manufacturing process for industrial manufacturing equipment


Qualifications/education/experience
Competences in industrial methodologies such as value stream analysis, lean manufacturing, FMEA, design to cost etc.
At least 5 years experiences in managing engineers and large-scale projects in multi-cultural environment
Experiences in battery industry is valuable but not required


Specific skills
Excellent English written and oral skills
Highly execution-oriented
Ability to work under high pressure and tight deadlines
Excellent time management skills
International multi technology dimensions


Personal success factors
Excellence in building trust and communicating Northvolt’s unique selling point
Flexible and communicative personality
Highly organized and result driven
Passionate about technology and innovation
Shows grit and determination in finding the best situational solutions
Has a can do-attitude and an entrepreneurial spirit
Negotiation skills
Analytical mindset
Driven and motivated