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Are you eager to be part of a pioneering initiative in the sustainable energy sector? Northvolt is actively seeking exceptional individuals to join our dynamic Blueprint Team. While specific roles may not be available immediately, we encourage passionate individuals with expertise in various fields to submit their profiles for consideration. We are building a talent pool to draw from as opportunities arise within the Blueprint Team.

About the Blueprint Team:

The Blueprint Team is on a mission to develop a digital factory blueprint for a scalable, rapidly deployable, highly efficient world-class battery factory. It constitutes a complete solution that spans process, equipment, materials, facility, utilities and people, with guidelines and tools needed for the establishment of a factory.

Blueprint Senior Engineering Design Manager

As a Blueprint Senior Design Manager you will play a critical role in driving the factory design and maintaining a robust blueprint for our large-scale battery factory by leading a team of extremely passionate and bold Engineering Design Manager It is essential that you possess strong process engineering and industrialization knowledge, which you will leverage to ensure the success of the factory design.

Working closely with a cross-functional team, you will be responsible for driving the continuous improvement of factory blueprints, which serve as the foundation for our battery factories.

Additionally, you will collaborate with our Northvolt factory programs across Europe and worldwide as you support deployment of the blueprint and on-time/on-budget project delivery. Your responsibilities will encompass all phases of the design process, from initial concept phase to final design phase.

The blueprint is a strategically important asset for Northvolt, and your expertise will be instrumental in achieving our mission to revolutionize the future of energy. We are seeking a candidate with a strategic mindset, who thrives in solving complex problems, approaches challenges with a hands-on attitude, and is capable of enabling decision making. Additionally, you should enjoy working in a cross-functional, multinational team, where you leverage your collaborative skills to build a network of stakeholders to drive innovation and success.

If this sounds like you then apply today to join us in shaping the future of energy and making a lasting impact on the world.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead the Design Management Team providing Technical Coaching and brining them to perform at their Peak
• Lead a cross-functional team in designing a crucial building block of our factory blueprint.
• Collaborate closely with Process and Equipment Engineering and R&D to optimize processes and machine design for a cost-effective and efficient battery factory.
• Make technical decisions to ensure competitive, modular, scalable, and sustainable factory, process, and machine designs.
• Facilitate design reviews, manage blueprint upgrades, and report results to management.
• Capture Lessons Learnt to contribute to building a learning organization.
• Support supplier dialogues and collaborate with procurement and R&D to understand requirements and opportunities.
• Establish and drive standards for key design documents.
• Co-develop and collect design documents such as Technical Equipment Specifications and User Requirement Specifications.
• Drive value engineering initiatives and continuous improvement with Cell Development Projects and R&D.
• Evaluate new technologies and provide guidance on appropriate investments.
• Help develop partnerships with integrators and installation partners for current and future projects.

Leadership role:

The person we are looking for is driven, caring and structured. You thrive by leading others and work towards common goals. You are used to a high paced work environment and got good time management skills. Qualities that we cherish are flexibility, sense of quality, friendliness, motivation to take on new challenges, 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.

About Northvolt

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.

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