Factory Material Flow Engineer
- Applications are considered on a rolling basis
- Stockholm
Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a Factory Material Flow Engineer in Northvolt Systems passionate team for Factory Development in Stockholm. The Factory Development team is responsible for developing factory designs which supports seamless integration between production, packaging, material flow, supply chain, construction, and facilities teams. Through a detailed understanding of factory objectives and extensive collaboration with the internal and external teams designing the factory setup, this team ensures that the overall factory design achieves Northvolt's demanding production targets. Today the team consist of ~10 people, and we are looking for our next star.
As part of an agile Factory Development team, the Factory Material Flow Engineer will develop the flow inside of the factories ground (inside and outside). Therefore, the role needs to work closely with interface partners from layout, process material flow, warehousing, logistics, quality, rework, construction, and offices. This function has the governance of all flows beside the process material flow. Therefore, the responsibility is to design, optimize and balance the flows of finished goods, parts, and people with the target to eliminate congestions, stoppages of production lines and MUDA. Collaboration with highly technical cross-functional teams is needed to ensure the factory throughput, efficient support functions and that the factory utilizes the available space most efficient.
In joining us you will play an important part in building a sustainable Northvolt System factory network. Northvolt will play an important role in the transformation to a carbon free society.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Design, optimize and balance the flow solutions of finished goods, parts and people on the factory grounds by utilizing new technologies and specialized equipment
- In new factory projects the role has the governance to ensure all flows affecting arrangement of buildings, equipment, operations, and support functions
- Planning, ordering (RFQ runs), and handing over of all necessary equipment to ensure the factory material flow (eg. AMR/AGV, tugger trains, forklifts, supermarkets, support areas, etc.)
- Optimize manufacturing layouts incorporating people and material flow
- Defining measures to solve bottlenecks with the technical cross-functional team and drive the process to ensure implementation of measures
- Support production ramp-up in Northvolt Systems factories (in and outside Europe) and handover to operations and sustaining industrial/process engineers
The ideal candidate will excel as part of a high-powered team where he/she will tackle whatever technical challenges are necessary to support the overall objectives. He/She appreciates an environment where superior work is encouraged, noticed, and rewarded and where individuals carry a big share of responsibility. He/She takes pride in his/her thoroughness, analytical ability, organizational skills, and attention to detail. As a person we believe you are self-dependent, ambitious, got a lot of grit and humor, enjoy multitasking and with a love for both people, technology, and a fast-paced work environment.
Northvolt is an equal opportunity employer. We're a diverse group of individuals, united by a common mission, who recognise that while our actions as individuals have a role to play in driving Northvolt towards its goals, we always seek to move forward as a team. We offer you an open and welcoming atmosphere where we win as a team – and fail as a team. Northvolt is growing at the speed of light and we are a strong believer in internal career development. For us it’s important to look at your skills and potential, please refrain form including your picture and age with your application to help us with this.
Apply with CV in english or your complete LinkedIn profile.
Full time employment, fixed salary.
Planned starting date is asap.
Work with great people
Skills & Requirements
We believe that you have :
- M.Sc. in Engineering, preferably within Production Management/Logistics/Engineering, Process or Mechanical Engineering or similar
- +4 years of experience in manufacturing or production development, equipment engineering, digital factory, material flow. Experience specifically regarding flow balancing/ optimization, line ramp-up, factory/production design, process design or similar.
- Project management skills – create and maintain open issue lists, master schedules, lead multi-functional teams, issue resolution, financial tracking and management of program fund spending and equipment procurement
- Experience doing the detailed analysis necessary to make data driven decisions on factory layout design, production line/assembly line design or warehouse design
- Able to work under pressure while managing competing demands and tight deadlines
- Exemplary verbal and written communication skills
- Mastery in conflict management and objective thinking
- Experience in Lean Manufacturing, 5S plus safety, Kaizen
- Mastery of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio
Bonus points for:
- Experience with AutoCAD 2D
- Experience with AMRs, robotics, automation and control
- Experience with Siemens Plant Simulation or other
- Discrete Event Simulation (DES) tools.
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.
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