Launch Engineer
2 months ago
Skellefteå, Västerbotten, Sweden
Northvolt ETT AB
Full time
About the RoleWe are seeking a highly skilled Launch Engineer to join our team at Northvolt ETT AB. As a Launch Engineer, you will play a critical role in the development and commissioning of our new generation of large-scale European battery factories.
Key Responsibilities- Commissioning Activities: Own and lead commissioning activities, including cold and hot commissioning on site, to ensure seamless factory startup.
- Process Development: Develop and implement process improvements, including SAT, OPL closure, and support handover to manufacturing.
- Quality Assurance: Approve documents related to as-built, including PFMEA, and ensure equipment quality, technical specifications, and CE standards are met.
- Supplier Management: Provide feedback and guidance to suppliers to ensure equipment quality and technical specifications are met.
- Process Training: Develop and issue DOEs, schedule process and equipment trials, and lead the definition and release of standards and training for manufacturing processes.
- HAZOP Completion: Complete HAZOP analysis to identify and mitigate potential hazards.
- Team Leadership: Train and guide new process engineers and support functions to ensure a smooth handover.
- Lessons Learned: Translate lessons learned during commissioning and production ramp-up into design upgrades for expansion.
- Education: BSc or MSc degree in mechanical or chemical engineering.
- Experience: 3+ years of relevant work experience within equipment and process design and engineering related fields.
- Leadership: Successful track record of leading process improvement projects in a production factory.
- Industry Experience: Experience from building and scaling production in a fast-growing environment, ideally in the Battery, Automotive, Food, Pharma, Paper & Pulp, Semiconductor, Electrochemical, or similar industry.
- Skills: Curious, technically educated, and preferably with a strong problem-solving background. Familiar with QA troubleshooting tools. Experience and interest in equipment design, process development, and commissioning.
- Full-Time Employment: Fixed salary and full-time employment.
- International Environment: Ability to work in a high-profile and often high-pressure international environment.
- Personal Qualities: Flexibility, sense of quality, friendliness, motivation to take on new challenges, grit, and a sense of humor.
- Language Skills: Excellent English written and oral skills.