Test and Validation Manager

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a Test and Validation Manager to join our Skellefteå team.

In joining us you will play an important part from the very start in developing a new generation of large-scale European battery factories. Northvolt will play an important role in the transformation to a carbon-free society, and this is your opportunity to take part in leading those efforts and help drive us to success.

The key responsibilities of the Testing manager is to plan, manage and coordinate the daily activities of a sub-team within the 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 Testing 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. The Testing Manager will have specific responsibility for the Performance & Life and Safety & Environment test facility.

Key responsibilities

• Direct Management of Employees. This role usually has several direct reports and as such the Area Manager is expected to handle the day-to-day management of these employees.
• Operations Management of specific Test activities (both employees and throughput).
• Operational Training, Quality, and Safety Compliance of Direct Personnel and Daily Processes.
• Expect, Plan For, and Manage a Certain Degree of Ambiguity and Constant Change.
• It requires the ability to build relationships and trust across boundaries of responsibility, continuously collaborate with all internal customers to ensure to support them as best as needed, so that ultimately the company can operate as a team with a common goal, while still holding each other accountable for their respective expectation.

Qualifications and experience

• Strongly preferred prior experience (2+ years) of working in a laboratory environment.
• Preferably a degree in Natural Sciences, Materials Science, Engineering. • Experience in resources shift planning. Testing Manager Laboratories Quality
• Experience in leading and coordinating teams.
• Experience in troubleshooting analytical instruments/equipment.
• Knowledgeable in Lean and six sigma.
• Knowledge of quality management systems, e.g., ISO 9001, IATF16949, TQM.

Specific skills

• Excellent English written and oral skills, Swedish is a plus.
• Elementary computer literacy (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, ability to learn new platforms).
• Project management skills.
• Leadership skills.

Personal success factors

• Highly organised and results driven with an eye for details.
• Solution oriented mindset – exceptionally good problem-solving skills and flexibility.
• Proactive, passionate and purpose driven - goes beyond expectations.
• Ability to work under high pressure and tight deadlines, excellent time management.
• Ability to work in a high profile and often high-pressured international environment.
• Able to learn and acquire new information quickly.
• High ability to keep to good laboratory practice including 5S, cleanliness, routines, etc.
• Strong technical interest.
• Communicative and “likeable” personality; drives and inspires others.
• Shows grit and determination to continuously thrive to optimise current routines and processes.
• Has a can do-attitude and an entrepreneurial spirit. When the any process is stopped, figures out how to get to “go".

Apply with CV in English or your complete LinkedIn profile.

Full time employment, fixed salary.

Planned starting date is ASAP.