Associate Production Engineer

Northvolt has an exciting job offer as a Associate Production Engineer to join our team in Skellefteå!

The person we are looking for is a team player, highly motivated, curious 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 tangible results of your work. Our organization requires and values great self-discipline, a sense of ownership and natural talent to make things happen.

As an Associate Production Engineer, you are the main bridge between commissioning phase and production ramp up. You will work closely with the Process Engineers as process team finalize commissioning and prepare the production team to take over the lines. Once the production has started, the Production Engineer is reviewing performance yield of the lines and launch projects to reduce the top losses in both categories.

The Production Engineer is responsible for optimizing the performance of the lines. You will work with a cross functional team. In this role, you will increase your current understanding of the equipment and processes and utilize it to create a path to a zero-loss concept to optimize the line and maintain quality performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review loss data and identify top losses
• Deep root cause analysis of top losses
• Project launch to eliminate top losses
• Documentation review to ensure proper documentation package is available post-commissioning
• Collaborate with Process Engineering to create handover requirements
• Facilitate a smooth transition between commissioning phase and ramp up/production phase

Education/experience:

• BSc or MSc degree in mechanical or chemical engineering
• 3+ years of relevant work experience within design and engineering related fields.
• Familiar with QA trouble shooting tools.
• Successful track record of leading process improvement projects in a production factory.
• Experience from scaling production in a fast-growing environment is prefered.

Set salary, start date asap.