Pilot Production Engineer (Battery & Automation)

Lyten; Västerås kommun; On-site; SEK 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Lyten is seeking a Production Engineer (Pilot Production) to stabilize, scale, and continuously improve pilot-line processes spanning electrode manufacturing, cell assembly, and formation & aging. You will translate lab recipes into robust, traceable processes ready for industrialization at Northvolt gigafactories.

You will work with production, process, quality and automation engineers to ensure process maturity, reliability, and transfer readiness for large-scale manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Manufacturing or Automation Engineering or equivalent.
• 3–8 years of experience in high precision manufacturing or pilot/scale-up environments (battery, pharma, semiconductor, film/web coating or similar).
• Lean Six Sigma Green- or Black-belt is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own pilot-line production steps across Wet- and Dry Electrode, Assembly and Formation & Aging processes; define, monitor, and improve operation parameter ranges.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define production system requirements and create robust solutions for production lines.
• Follow data-driven production control methods, implementing SPC on CtQs and MSAs to ensure capability prior to scale-up.
• Develop dashboards for OEE, FPY, scrap and downtime with Pareto analyses to track progress and root cause.
• Prepare Process Flow, PFMEA and work instructions for pilot productions.
• Partner with Safety & Environment to validate process changes against requirements.
• Perform root-cause analysis on equipment and process improvements during A- and B-sample productions.
• Collaborate with design, materials, maintenance, automation, supply chain and operations on fast learning cycles and problem solving.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Chemical/Mechanical/Manufacturing/Automation Engineering

Tools

DOE/SPC/MSA

PFMEA

3D CAD

MES/SCADA/PLC

Data scripting/querying

Job description

Lyten is seeking a Production Engineer (Pilot Production) to stabilize, scale, and continuously improve pilot-line processes spanning electrode manufacturing, cell assembly, and formation & aging. You will translate lab recipes into robust, traceable processes ready for industrialization at Northvolt gigafactories.

You will work with production, process, quality and automation engineers to ensure process maturity, reliability, and transfer readiness for large-scale manufacturing.