Risk Engineer - PMO Factory Programs

• Applications are considered on a rolling basis

Job Description

We are looking for a dedicated and driven Risk Engineer to join us in our mission to contribute to a greener future. The role is a part of our excellent team based in Skelleftea. By joining us, you will contribute to building one of the first large scale European battery factories.

About the team:

As the Risk Analyst/Engineer, you will take ownership of the risk management for different projects and support the team producing Quantitative Risk Analysis.

We are looking for a Risk Analyst/Engineer with strong quantitative skills to apply quantitative risk analysis techniques to the risk and opportunity portfolio of a large scale industrial program with Northvolt Factory Programs You will be part of the Program Management Office and will work under the supervision of the PMO Risk Manager, and interact with the other members of the Program Management in order to define probability rules for each key risk and opportunity, and perform a statistical evaluation of the risk profile (Monte Carlo simulation).

As Risk Analyst/Engineer will also cover steering and administering the risk registers, facilitating risk meetings and workshops, and ensuring proper management and close out of all project risks both within the Program and its main contractor, as well as Business Risks internally up through the organization. You will be tracking and progressing the risk process within the Northvolt New Factories by the risk owners, ensuring timely follow up of risk mitigations, and supporting the ongoing update and management of the risk profile.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Perform quantitative risk analysis for cost and schedule impact
• Drive the risk management processes within the project and delivery teams
• Facilitating the risk meetings and administering the associated registers
• Interfacing with the contractors/supplier’s risk processes
• Ensure that risk decisions and mitigations are fully communicated to the owners & management team
• Developing/managing the digitilisation (power BI) of risk registers
• Driving risk based thinking in the projects, embedding the project risk process
• Coordinate the systematic management of risk through the risk owners in the delivery teams
• Jointly facilitating monthly risk reviews with the delivery teams
• Preparing risk and mitigation inputs for NV Program and Funding requirements
• Preparing Quantitative Risk Analysis for cost and schedule

Northvolt is an equal opportunity employer. We're a diverse group of individuals, united by a common mission, who recognise that while our actions as individuals have a role to play in driving Northvolt towards its goals, we always seek to move forward as a team. We offer you an open and welcoming atmosphere where we win as a team – and fail as a team. Northvolt is growing at the speed of light and we are a strong believer in internal career development. For us it’s important to look at your skills and potential, please refrain form including your picture and age with your application to help us with this.

Apply with CV in english or your complete LinkedIn profile.

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

Skills & Requirements

• Qualifications/education/experience *A bachelor degree or above in relevant engineering fields
• 3 years work of relevant work experience
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Technical background or an interest in technical industries.
• Excel and database skills, power BI an advantage
• Experience of risk management processes is credited but not essential
• Technical or project controls skillset is a plus.

• Project Engineering skillset is considered of use in this role.

• Experience with Monte Carlo Simulations is meriting but not required

Bonus points for:

• Experience and interest in manufacturing industry
• Fluency in other languages (Japanese, Swedish, Chinese, French)
• Experience from a multi-cultural environment

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.