Automation Engineering Manager

• Applications are considered on a rolling basis
• On-site

Job Description

Northvolt has a great job for an experienced automation engineering manager with a technical background in industrial automation systems. You will help build one of the first large scale European battery factories. Northvolt is committed to a fully green production process through using emission free energy sources for production and recycling. Northvolt will play an important role in the transformation to a carbon free society, and we hope you want to be part of this mission too.

As an engineering manager at Northvolt, you will play a critical part in supporting and growing people in our Automation team. You will make sure they thrive in their roles and have access to all the tools, training and coaching they need. As somebody with a strong technical background, you will also help guide and shape the design of our solutions and be an important influencer in our technology and architecture choices. You will help us build a strong culture, facilitate technical delivery and work with us to continuously improve the way we work.

Skills & Requirements

Some of the things you will do:

• You will grow and guide a team of engineers through recruitment, coaching, mentoring, establishing healthy processes, and general support.
• Work towards ensuring the team is aligned on business needs, delivering the expected value.
• Be involved in forming the way we design and implement our systems, both through support and direct involvement in design decisions.
• Make sure our way of working and agile development practices are clear, modern and suited to bring out the best of the team.
• Be part of the Automation management team and cross-functional collaboration on business needs, deliverables, and culture. You will collaborate with other managers in software, material flow, electrical engineering, IT, and infosec.
• Work towards building a friendly, collaborative environment in line with the company culture.
• Learn what it takes to manufacture batteries, build big factories, as well as continue developing your organization management toolkit and technology knowledge.

In the first year, your team’s successes will include:

• Being part of the Northvolt story and making its first production-grade lithium-ion battery in its new Skellefteå factory.
• Commissioning the first of four blocks in Northvolt Ett gigafactory.
• Stabilizing the equipments and control systems at Northvolt Labs and Ett.
• Making first data flow from the factory floor to upper level systems to turn into an operational digital twin.

The person we are looking for is strongly goal oriented, curious and eager to learn. You love working with people and finding ways to grow a team and its people to make them thrive in the work place and to do better work. You are passionate about technology and should be able to reason about and influence the direction we’re going on an architectural level. You have a technical background in software and automation engineering. Relevant experience in manufacturing industry is a plus.

Apply with a resumé or your complete LinkedIn profile.

About the company

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 gigafactory Northvolt Ett in Skellefteå, Sweden. 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.