Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a shift manager. 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.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Ensure that SOP’s and WI’s are followed
• Train employees in SOP’s and WI’s
• Ensure development of employees (Technical, SOP’S, WI’s, Team development and behaviours)
• Suggest improvements and ensure improvements are being implemented when decided
• Supervise and support employees
• Assigns tasks and responsibilities to employees, as the employer’s representative
• Make sure check in, pulse meetings, other meetings are held as planned
• Follow up shift performance and act on deviations
• Calls in replacements in the event of an employee call-in or no-show.
• Communicates with other shifts to ensure good handover and standardization
• Communicate and cooperate with support functions to improve manufacturing
• Adhere to and enforce company policies and guidelines.
• Enforce the proper disciplinary measures when employees fail to adhere to company policy
• Recruit for own team
• Develop a team spirit that creates energy, encourages compliance with company standards and employment guidelines
• Follow up on performance metrics (competence matrix) for each team member and then work with team members to make sure that all metrics are met
• Participate and run the work team together with the manager. The duties consist of, among other things, production management, planning, quality, environmental and work environment work.
• Responsible for ensuring that the work is carried out according to current instructions and that the safety regulations are followed.
• Process area responsibility and coordinates the work with subcontractors, such as inspections and subcontracting work
• To ensure that our quality assurance systems such as 5S maintain an ongoing higher standard.

Qualifications/education/experience

• High school diploma
• Experience in manufacturing
• Leadership or management experience

Personal success factors

• Challenges, in a bold way, current behaviours and ways of working
• Close to employees, follow up, encourage, very good in feed forward and feedback
• Very good in empowering people to make people act
• Role modelling, being the safe and healthy role model
• Create team spirit, sense of belonging and relatedness in the team
• The ability to communicate to a multidisciplinary, as well as multinational, workforce is essential.
• Strong verbal, written communication skills
• Ability to interact effectively with all levels of employees and management

Apply with CV in English or your complete LinkedIn profile.

Full time employment, fixed salary.

Planned starting date is ASAP.