Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a Senior Manager Production Quality 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.

Manufacturing Quality management: Oversees quality operations for multiple manufacturing areas for new and existing products during industrialization, ramp up and serial production to ensure customer satisfaction.

Leads cross-functional and cross-technological projects, quality initiatives, and improvements plans to ensure quality performance. Leads development, modification, and implementation of quality policies. Leads development of Production Quality managers, experts, and teams.

Key responsibilities

• Set up quality monitoring procedures, define quality KPI's, evaluate performance and launch improvement initiatives.
• Participate and input in change management, engineering change notification and deviation approval processes.
• Review results and action tracker and initiate improvement projects.
• Drive cross-functional and cross-technological manufacturing projects and opportunities.
• Drive quality improvement and optimization projects utilising six sigma methodology.
• Participate and input to quality gate reviews in the industrialisation phase of Product and Process Development to ensure reliable manufacturing of products.
• Steer Organization Quality performance and act on deviations, launch, ramp up and serial production.
• Lead problem solving activities to improve quality performance.
• Ensure development and supervises production quality managers, leaders, and specialists.
• Establish quality objectives, work plans and delegate assignments to team members.
• Recruit and develop a team spirit that creates energy, encourages compliance with company standards, values, policy, and employment guidelines and develops logical thinking / problem solving skills.
• Implement and audit standard quality procedures and processes.

Requirements

Qualifications and experience

• A degree in Engineering.
• 8+ years working experience in high volume assembly/production.
• 3+ years of leadership experience in an international organization
• Experience and knowledge about FMEA, Control Plan, PPAP, SPC, MSA, Risk Management.
• Experience and knowledge of problem-solving processes, 8D, 5Why, Ishikawa, Pareto.
• Experience and knowledge of quality requirements and standards of the automotive industry ( IATF 16949: 2016).

Specific skills

• Leadership skills and a successful track record of managing operational teams.
• Excellent communication skills.

Personal success factors

• Has a "can do" attitude and an entrepreneurial spirit.
• Is curious, action and result oriented, has hands on approach.
• Flexibility, sense of quality, friendliness, motivation to take on new challenges, grit and a sense of humour.
• Passionate & purpose driven.

Apply with CV in English or your complete LinkedIn profile.

Full time employment, fixed salary.

Planned starting date is ASAP.