Test Technician

Northvolt has an exciting opportunity for a Test Technician in our safety lab to join our bold test team and play a key role in testing and evaluating the performance for safety & mechanical behavior of our cells during the different development phases, from prototyping to production of Li-ion cells.
You will support the engineers in defining equipment specifications, choose the best equipment and conduct the tests for a given task as well as maintaining the equipment and the test methods for evaluating cells. Furthermore, you will be responsible for executing the work to high quality standards, be responsible for procedures and documentation associated with the cell testing activities. Core responsibility will be to run and supervise the tests using a range of advanced safety test equipment and keeping records of the tests and the results.
The Test Technician will be able to operate test equipment, mounting and dis-mounting jigs and cells, preparing reliable electrical connections and overseeing test progress and results. You have experience from working with various test equipment and product testing, preferably in the electronics industry and are used to structuring your work in an efficient way. You will play an important role to support our cell designers & project teams in executing the testing of the cells and you will collaborate with Northvolt R&D, Quality, Validation, IT & Automation and Production teams.
In general, you have experience in testing operations with different test equipment and work independently with a good sense of responsibility and commitment. Specifically, you have a deep understanding of working and cooperating cross-functionally in a multicultural environment with R&D, Quality and Production.
The candidate should be analytical and logical with an ability to identify opportunities and improvements to drive increased quality through data driven approaches. The candidate should have strong technical and hands-on abilities in order to succeed in this role.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Start-up of test equipment and writing first test procedures
Develop and document methods and procedures for cell testing together with R&D and Validation engineers
Run tests on a range of cell testing equipment and report data/results
Execute testing according to rigorous safety procedures
Specific expertise in interpretation of cell performance is a merit
Develop and propose new evaluation and test methods
Execute the cell testing plans of each product development project
Maintain the equipment and work space to a high standard
Experience from working with new software and driving automation of testing and data evaluation
Work across many parts of the organization, collaborating with R&D technical team, Process engineering, Supply Chain, IT & automation.

The person we are looking for is a team player, curious and eager to learn. You will get the chance to have a real impact on our success story in Sweden. Our organization requires and values great self-discipline and a natural talent to make things happen. The Cell Testing Technician is vital to Northvolt customer satisfaction since you will directly work with evaluating and testing their prototype samples.
Apply with CV and cover letter in English or your complete LinkedIn profile.
Full time employment, fixed salary.