Electrode Engineer
Northvolt has exciting job offers for R&D Electrode Engineers to initially join our bold project team in Västerås.
*This position is divided into Process Design/Development and Electrode Development.
In joining us you will play an important part from the very start in building one of the first large scale European battery factories. Northvolt will play an important role in the transformation to a carbon free society.
About the team
Electrode team in Västerås Labs is expanding rapidly in Process Design & Development, Design of Mechanical Concept, Electrode Development for sample shipments from Västerås Labs.
Electrode Development:
The cell project of the electrode design will primarily support the Process and Manufacture teams to create a project cell electrode. You will be working intimately with the material team and group, cell designers, and project leaders.
Our aim is to Electrode design and development for customer project cell.
In general, you have a long experience in the field and have been driving large, innovative, and challenging electrode development projects with high demands on Lithium-ion batteries.
Specifically, you have a deep understanding of working with electrode design as well as new electrode development.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Developing lithium-ion battery for Energy Storage, Electric Vehicles, and other applications
- Developing and Improvement basic composition design of Electrode for lithium-ion battery
- Evaluating the basic physical property and the fundamental performance of Electrode
- Electrode design included support and managing the R&D Labs scale.
Process Design/Development:
Improvement and expansion for the process are highly demanded. Electrode team are establishing new electrode process and introducing new material. The process engineer will perform experiment in small scale to mid-scale to specify requirement for electrode equipment improvement. The individual is expected to:
- Work in Västerås Labs with operators onsite to understand current problems and define improvement items. 25% of work time onsite.
- Utilize existing equipment hardware and software as much as possible to reduce downtime and duration of installation.
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Create experiment plans, share the plans to stakeholders, conduct experiment and share result to related divisions.
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Align with automation (software) engineers, vendors, and stakeholders of existing infrastructures to create specification for large scale improvement.
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Support commissioning of new coating functions onsite at Västerås Labs, Skellefteå factory and other future giga factories.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Establish new processes such as slurry, coating, slitting, calendaring mainly at Västerås Labs
- Expand new process which is established in Västerås Labs to mass production lines, such as Skellefteå Ett factory.
- Define specification for electrode equipments to implement new process.
- Define specification for new process and equipment for factory expansion.
- Support electrode production at Västerås Labs when testing new material
- Localizing technologies to Europe (provide guidance for EU equipment manufacturers to produce key components in EU)
Work with great people
Skills & Requirements
Education/Experience
Electrode Development:
- BSc or MSc degree in Material Science/Physics/Chemistry/Electrochemistry/Manufacturing Engineering/Process Engineering
- Experience within high volume production engineering in a related field
- More than 2 years of practical experience in LIB cell development
- Experience in planning, developing, and executing the design of experiments for proceeding and testing of battery cell is a must
- 3+ years of working experience in Electrode design is a plus
- Experience in the Batteries or Ultracapacitor manufacturing industry is a plus
Process Design/ Development:
- BSc or MSc degree in Material Science/Physics/Chemistry/Electrochemistry/Manufacturing Engineering/Process Engineering
- Experience within high volume production engineering in a related field
- Experience within process engineering in chemical/automotive/semiconductor/Ink, etc industries
- Experience in working in dry room
Bonus Point For:
- Working experience in a manufacturing equipment.
- Six sigma training with green belt certificate
- Familiar with DOE and SPC
- Familiar with DFMEA and QA troubleshooting tools
- Successful track record of leading process improvement projects in a production factory
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Experience in handling measurement instrument such as SEM, peel strength measurement, IR / VIS/ UV spectra, thickness measurement.
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Business level English written and oral skills
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Follow safety regulation given by safety team. given by safety team.
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Ability to work on-site more than 25% of working hours.
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Excellent English written and oral skills
Great Place to Work
World leading technique
Top specialists as team peers
International environment
Fast paced & entrepreneurial culture
Warrant program
Wellness grant
About the company
Northvolt makes green batteries for a blue planet. Affordable cells and high-quality battery systems. All manufactured with a record-low carbon footprint. Purposely built to provide Europe with the opportunity to switch to renewable energy – efficiently and entirely.
To accomplish this, we do things differently. We design, manufacture, and recycle everything under one roof. We even build our own factories. All this is incredibly challenging and requires us to think in unconventional ways. We’re constantly experimenting, learning and adapting to make batteries so great – they will one day make oil history.
Northvolt is growing fast. We’re staffing our international office in Stockholm, our R&D facility, Northvolt Labs, in Västerås, as well as our Gdansk facility for production of battery systems. We're also hiring for our gigafactory Northvolt Ett in Skellefteå, Sweden. We want to work with smart individuals from all disciplines. Strong individuals that truly want to make a positive impact on the future. Those of us already on board share a passion for our mission. We’re prepared to work hard in pursuit of excellence. We enjoy the ride and our main drive is to make a difference for real. As a team, we’re dedicated to thinking new, working hard and having fun.
Rika Kato | Contact Person
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