Senior Civil Design Engineer

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Job Description

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a Civil Engineer as Senior Civil Design Engineer to join our passionate team in Västerås.

As a Senior Civil Design Engineer in the Blueprint you will guide the work of this discipline in the CSA team and collaborate within the organization by supporting the development of optimized design solutions for current and future design of NV’s factories, ensuring best in class battery manufacturing facilities. You will also support the Northvolt factory programs (today NV Ett in Skellefteå and NV Drei in Germany) to find the most efficient designs & solutions.

The Blueprint team was created to deliver on Northvolt’s vision and bold expansion plans. The team’s mission is to deliver a digital factory blueprint of a scalable, rapidly deployable, highly efficient world class battery factory. It constitutes a comprehensive solution with guidelines and tools needed for establishment of the factory spanning process, equipment, materials, facility, utilities and people.

To summarize, Blueprint is a highly strategic but also execution oriented and cross functional team which aids Northvolt in our mission to enable the future of energy.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Creation and review of Northvolt civil design philosophies and guidelines.
  • Collect, coordinate and structure the civil design requirements from the factory users, amongst all teams and engineering disciplines.
  • Ensure coordination between internal/external stakeholders and design consultants and compliance with environmental requirements.
  • Preparation and review of concept and basic design within the Civil discipline.
  • Provide technical support during Detail Design and Execution phases, acting as the main design authority..
  • Develop and review civil engineering deliverables, including construction document drawings, specifications, and calculations (i.e. roads, grading, drainage, deep piping, layout and design geometric, paving, and site utilities, etc.)
  • Make technical assumptions and drive civil investigations and studies during early design stages.
  • Be able to develop quantity take offs and assist with cost estimating for projects in short time frames.
  • Provide planning estimates with limited scoping information.
  • Mentor junior team members.
  • Act as the company-wide point of reference for the Civil discipline.
  • Perform design option analysis for cost efficiency, constructability, etc.

The person we are looking for is passionate and purpose driven, enjoys to interface with multiple engineering disciplines in a very fast-paced environment.
You are flexible, hardworking, open minded, got a lot of grit and of course a sense of humor.

Apply with CV and cover letter or your complete LinkedIn profile.

Full time employment, fixed salary.
Planned starting date is asap.

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