Quality Control Area Manager

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

Job Description

Job Scope

The Quality Control Area manager is responsible to plan, manage and coordinate the daily activities of a team within the broader Laboratories Quality team at Northvolt ETT. This includes ensuring the execution of the control plan, both the logistics and successful testing of cells, as well as collaborating with stakeholders from production/quality/logistics/R&D/cell design to support them as best as possible in terms of their daily testing needs and requirements. Additionally, the Area Manager’s responsibility is to maximise the use of available resources (personnel, equipment, material), build a strong and talented team that can meet the high demands of our internal customers in terms of quality, efficiency, and turn-around time of results.

Key Responsibilities The Quality Control Area Manager has a broad range of responsibilities including, but not limited to:

• Building and leading their team. This includes all aspects of team leadership such as hiring, training, and performance management as well as administrative tasks such as schedule and attendance management.
• Managing the operations of an advanced battery testing lab. This includes overseeing the execution of all quality control analyses within their area, managing the logistics of incoming and outgoing samples, and leading handling of deviations.
• Ensuring operational Excellence within their area. This includes ownership of all safety requirements and equipment handling standards for themselves and the team; Driving continuous improvement activities within their team and lab; Ensuring adherence to existing SOP's and standards within the Lab and company.

The person we are looking for is flexible, curios 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 values great self-discipline and a natural talent to make things happen. Qualities that we cherish are sense of quality, friendliness, grit and a sense of humor.

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 /E xperience

• 3+ years leading and coordinating teams in a laboratory environment.
• Experience in troubleshooting analytical instruments/equipment
• Knowledgeable in Lean and six sigma
• Knowledge of quality management systems, e.g., ISO 9001, IATF16949, TQM
• Excellent English written and oral skills, Swedish is a plus.

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.