Lead Engineer - Technical Cleanliness

• Applications are considered on a rolling basis

Job Description

As the TecSa Lead, you will play a pivotal role in merging Technical Cleanliness and Industrial Engineering principles within the Skelleftea Gigafactory. Your primary responsibility is to conceptualise, design, deploy, maintain, and advance technical cleanliness standards across all Northvolt Ett processes and environments. This encompasses managing and training the quality team members, ensuring stringent quality standards, and compliance with international cleanliness standards and Northvolt's internal protocols.

Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to

• Lead the conceptualisation and design of technical cleanliness in any aspects of our manufacturing processes and plants

• Establish a Design for Technical Cleanliness mindset across the plant and beyond, and ensure we are developing and improving our processes accordingly.

• Establish and maintain compliance with to automotive standards (e.g., VDA 19.1, VDA 19.2, ISO 14644) within the Ett facility.
• Manage and mentor the technical cleanliness and quality team, ensuring adherence to impeccable standards and practices.
• Develop and implement technical cleanliness architectures, strategies, concepts, procedures, and standards.
• Head the implementation of solutions and problem-solving to reduce the risk of contaminations and ensure compliance with technical cleanliness requirements.

Apply with a full CV, starting date is planned ASAP

Skills & Requirements

We believe that you have :

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
• Extensive experience in technical cleanliness management, preferably as a leader in automotive or a manufacturing or industrial setting. Fluency in written and spoken English
• In-dept knowledge of technical cleanliness processes, requirements and standards (e.g.: ISO 14644, ISO 16232, VDA 19.1, VDA 19.2).
• Experience in establishing TecSa specific training

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.