Senior Manager Industrial Engineering

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

Job Description

Northvolt has an exciting job possibility for an Industrial Engineering Manager, you will be a vital member of the Manufacturing Engineering leadership team and key to Northvolt's mission to enable the future of energy. You will be working intimately with the Equipment Engineering & Process teams to design and implement a highly automated production process both in terms of efficiency and quality.

Your team’s mission is to design a block (line balancing) based on capacity requirements, build and sustain the OEE standard per equipment and determine the direct headcount needed for a new factory. Furthermore, your team will analyze potential factory layouts and execute changes to optimize manufacturing capacities. The role will require an in depth understanding of Industrial Engineering tools (ergonomics, line balancing etc.) and you need to work closely with multiple stakeholders across the organization.

As an Industrial Engineering Manager you will recruit, manage and develop the team that is working cross-functionally together with other teams such as Production, Maintenance and Manufacturing Engineering to develop and maintain the Industrial Engineering blueprint, one of the key building blocks of a large-scale battery factory.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Hire, manage and develop a team of Industrial Engineers
• Introduce and manage Industrial Engineering tools and processes
• Lead line balancing for new blocks incl. determining buffers 
• Set standards for Industrial Engineering, including implementation and roll-out phases
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders across NV organization

The person we are looking for is caring, strongly goal oriented, curious and structured. Furthermore, you like to interact with multiple stakeholders on a regular basis and enjoy bringing people together. You will get the chance to have a real impact on our success story in Sweden, Germany and Canada and see the results of your work. Our organization requires and values great self-discipline and a natural talent to make things happen.

Apply with CV and cover letter or your complete LinkedIn profile. Full time employment, fixed salary. Planned starting date is asap.

Skills & Requirements

Education/Experience

• Degree in Engineering (Industrial/Production/Manufacturing or similar).
• Proven track record of designing lines and planning capacities
• 5+ years of experience within a similar leadership role
• Competency with Microsoft Office suite, specifically high proficiency with Excel
• Must have worked in multi-cultural environment
• Distinguishing experiences/skills: 2D/3D CAD, lean manufacturing, work measurement (e.g. MTM analysis), analytics (SQL, Tableau), discrete event simulation

Specific Skills/Abilities

• Excellent English written and oral skills
• Servant leader for his/her team
• Highly organized and result-driven
• Has a can-do attitude and an entrepreneurial spirit
• Ability to work under high pressure and tight deadlines, excellent time management
• Qualities that we cherish are flexibility, sense of quality, friendliness, motivation to take on new challenges, grit and a sense of humor

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.