Director - Process Technology
Northvolt
- Västerås, Västmanland
- Permanent
- Heltid
- Work with the team, senior leadership, and internal customers to define the process technology roadmap for Northvolt's next-generation factories.
- Coach and support engineers and scientists through consistent feedback, navigation of challenges, and providing development opportunities to encourage technical and professional growth.
- Ensure deliverables and timelines are met for a range of innovations in battery processing steps (i.e., mixing, coating, cell assembly, electrolyte filling, formation, aging, etc.).
- Recruit, interview, hire, and onboard new Northvolters to expand our team's capabilities and diversity.
- Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, Advanced Materials, Product, Customer Programs, and executive leadership to proactively address evolving market needs and ensure key engineering pivots are made.
- Work with our Advanced Materials and Cell Development teams to drive mechanistic understanding of process vs. cell vs. material design correlations.
- Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams (5+ years), showcasing a commitment to intellectual honesty, empathy, and winning together.
- 13+ years of experience (fewer for candidates with an advanced degree) with process design and/or equipment engineering in a battery manufacturing relevant area (i.e., slurry mixing, coating, device assembly, electrochemical testing, failure mode analysis, etc.), preferably within a lithium-ion battery manufacturing organisation.
- Knowledge of manufacturing methods, process and quality standards, PFMEA, Lean tools (six sigma, RCA, 5S, etc.), health and environmental safety policies and procedures, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to drive step function improvements in process design, cost savings, yield, quality, resource management, and space utilisation.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with a wide array of personalities and stakeholders, driving alignment, prioritisation, and progress in rapidly changing situations.
- Experience developing and commercialising disruptive energy storage technologies (i.e., consumer electronics, transportation, residential, utility/grid, etc.).
- At least a B.S. in engineering or physical sciences (i.e., Chemical, Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing engineering, or Chemistry, Physics).
- Excellent English written and oral skills.
- Experience with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives.
- Experience with battery material selection, cell design, electrode processing, cell assembly, testing, and failure mode analysis, preferably within a battery manufacturing organisation.
- Fluency in other languages (i.e., Japanese, Swedish, Korean, German, Chinese, French).
- Experience with manufacturing software and digitalisation.