Innovation Site Manager (Revolt)
- Applications are considered on a rolling basis
- Västerås
Northvolt’s mission is to build the world’s greenest battery with a minimal carbon footprint to enable the European transition to renewable energy. To achieve this challenging target it is of vital importance to solve the recycling of batteries in an efficient way.
Do you have what it takes to enable the future of energy?
Northvolt Revolt is right now looking for a manager for our R&D innovation pilot plant. In this role you are crucial in transforming our existing R&D pilot into an innovation hub. This involves running daily operations for the ongoing experiments as well as implementing the new ideas and project results into operation. In our pilot we have the capability to run the full recycling of batteries and we want to leverage this opportunity to facilitate innovation ideas.
The research and development in the pilot plant is a vital part of making the world’s greenest battery and it is important that you take an active role in fitting this part into the big picture for battery recycling. For example, we are building one of the first European large-scale lithium-ion battery recycling plant and our results from the pilot has a direct impact into this.
The daily work within this role includes managing the operations to run the experiments as well as securing the implementation of our innovation results into the pilot plant.
In general you have a long experience in the field and have been part in driving innovative and challenging production development projects with high demands on industrialisation and scaling.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
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Ensures a safe, secure, and legal work environment
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Be part of the team that will give our operations team the tools to run the most advanced and efficient production factory in the world.
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Participate in R&D activities for piloting of new technologies and their suitability to production environments
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Cost estimations for projects and change requests. Provide input for quoting and planning works
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Benchmark external material for recycling purpose
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Accomplishes department objectives by managing staff; planning and evaluating activities.
The person we are looking for is driven, caring and structured. You thrive by leading others and work towards common goals. You are used to a high paced work environment and got good time management skills. Qualities that we cherish are flexibility, sense of quality, friendliness, motivation to take on new challenges, grit and a sense of humor.
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 :
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>10 years of leadership experience in running complex projects
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Experience with innovative concept development.e
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Proven track record of accomplishing change initiatives with external partners
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Capability to implement the result from the R&D into the pilot plant
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Experience in operations and managing a site
Skills:
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High self-preservation drive
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Structured and organized
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Challenge status Quo and make change happen
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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