Senior Production Planner

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a Senior Production Planner to join our passionate team in Västerås.

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.

As a Production Planner, you will actively partake in interdepartmental activities with Business Development, Quality, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Engineering, and Logistics to ensure an optimised production schedule for both prototype and series production runs. You will need to find the balance customer demand, equipment capacity, availability of human resources and material supply capabilities to create the optimal production schedule.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

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Be an active player in the Sales, Inventory and Operational Planning (SIOP) process

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Evaluate the customer and internal engineering demand

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Be on top of yield, scrap rate, other manufacturing non-conformity levels, as well as all other relevant manufacturing metrics

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Work closely with internal logistics to ensure material availability from store to line

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Produce, communicate and adjust (if need be) a balanced production plan

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Support MES system implementation


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 supply planner is a vital member of our Northvolt Labs and key to Northvolt's mission to enable the future of energy.

Apply with CV or your complete LinkedIn profile.
Immediately after the application you will receive an invitation to online tests. Please be sure to take them as soon as possible, as we will only consider candidates who have taken the tests.

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

- A relevant university degree (Engineering, Management, Logistics or similar)
- 5+ yrs prior work experience in Production, Supply Chain Planning, Supply, Production, Management
- Sound knowledge of Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and related software, e.g. MRP,
- Successful track record of production planning, ideally in an environment in a ramp-up phase or a prototyping plant is meriting

Specific Skills/Abilities

- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English with the ability to prepare and deliver concise understandable information to co-workers, suppliers, and other stakeholders,
- Problem-solving, entrepreneurial attitude thriving in a dynamic environment where no day is like the other (we mean it!),
- Self-motivated and finding it easy to establish new relationships,
- Intermediate user of Microsoft Excel
- Worked in multi-cultural environment (A MUST!).


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.