Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a Staff engineer cell design to join our Västerås 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.

Job scope

As a Staff engineer cell design you will be responsible for project leader of cell development for a specific customer.

Key responsibilities

• Leading cell development project in cell design team
• Setting up the development strategy and DOEs
• Co-develop the process concept
• Responsible for design freeze and BOM cost
• Technical counter-part of customer and execution customer project
• Technical lead for internal development with internal stakeholder

Requirements

Qualifications and experience

• PhD or MSc in chemical engineering/Electrochemistry/chemistry/material science and engineering
• More than 5 years experiences on the automotive business
• More than 12 years of practical experience from Li-ion battery cell development
• Extensive experience on cell design and development of Li-ion cells
• Extensive experience on large-scale battery fabrication and validation
• Experience on Li-ion battery manufacturing and mass production
• Working experience with OEM project for Li-ion battery cell/module business
• Extensive experience on managing the technical team for customer project
• Strong background from technical culture and proven engineering excellence

Specific skills

• Excellent English written and oral skills.
• Strong technical leadership.
• Ability to work under high pressure and tight deadlines, excellent time management.
• Ability to work well with others in a team environment, as well as independently.
• Passionate & purpose driven.

Personal success factors

• Ability to work well with others in a team environment, as well as independently
• Leadership to lead development organization and ability to manage timeline and target
• Strong managing skill to lead the team members for a technical and relationship matter
• Achieve both customer sample milestone and requirement specification
• Ability to work in a high profile and often high-pressure international environment
• Problem solving skills with appropriate tools

Apply with CV in English or your complete LinkedIn profile.

Full time employment, fixed salary.

Planned starting date is ASAP.