Senior Lean Manufacturing Engineer

Senior Lean Manufacturing Engineer

**Job Description:**

Northvolt is looking for a driven Senior Lean Manufacturing Engineer with different levels of experience to join us in our mission to contribute to a greener future. The role is part of our Production Excellence Team based in Västerås, Sweden. By joining us, you will have a key role in building and implementing the Northvolt Excellence System.

**About the Job:**

You will work hand in hand with our operational teams on driving improvement projects, training, and coaching the organization on problem-solving and creating value by finding and removing waste. You will have opportunities to work with everything from detailed improvements in production quality and various other operational topics to designing and implementing processes and system improvements. Further, you will contribute to writing our book on excellence and training the organization in our ways of working.

**Key Responsibilities:**

• Executing VSM according to safety, quality, delivery, cost KPIs, and highlighting bottlenecks to organization.
• Data collection, OEE, CT, WIP, and efficiency analysis, doing regular reporting of capacity.
• Performing time studies to develop labor utilization standards.
• Upskilling of shop floor staff and engineers with the creation of training material for general Lean practices.
• Developing and executing Value Stream Mapping, Standardized Work, Daily shopfloor management, 5S, SMED, Kaizen system, etc.
• Being the voice of Labs for KPI discussions.
• Setting customer project targets on KPI trends and following the performance during serial production by participating in meetings.
• Lead line-side improvement projects relating to production systems, operational efficiency, and OEE losses.
• Creating special training concepts and executing the trainings to manager levels.
• Collaboration between different NV sites.

**Requirements:**

• **Educational background and previous experience required for the role:**
• A Bachelor degree of Science in Mechanical, Industrial Production, or Manufacturing Engineering.
• Min 5 years experience in production engineering or industrial engineering.
• Automotive industry experience is a big plus.
• Proven experience, especially in VSM, 5S, Standard work, OEE, Workload model, Kaizen studies, etc.
• Strong ability and a proof to understand and manage OEE improvement work.
• Good presentation skills based on data.
• Six sigma belt education is required.

**Specific Skills:**

• Excellent English written and oral skills, Swedish is a plus.
• Highly organized and result-driven.
• Driven in setting up and leading training.
• Having coaching and mentoring skills.
• Strong communication with stakeholders.
• Open-minded for development and challenges.
• Eager to be in the shopfloor where the value is created.

**Personal success factors:**

• Flexible and communicative personality.
• Shows grit and determination in finding the best situational solutions.
• Has a can-do attitude and is honest.
• Driven and motivated.

**About the Company:**

Northvolt makes green batteries for a blue planet - affordable, sustainable, and high-quality cells and battery systems built to enable the future of energy. To accomplish this, we design, manufacture, and recycle everything under one roof, even build our own factories. We're constantly experimenting, learning, and adapting to make the world's greenest batteries. Northvolt is growing fast, looking for smart people from all disciplines who truly want to make a positive impact on the future.

**Contact Person:**

Filiz Aytekin

**Location:**

Västerås, Sweden

**Apply [here](Northvolt Jobylon)**.