Production Engineer
About this role
Job Scope
Lyten is seeking a Production Engineer with a specialization in automated industrial (battery) productions. As a Production Engineer (Pilot Production) you will stabilize, scale, and continuously improve pilot‑line processes that span electrode manufacturing, cell assembly, and formation & aging. Your mission is to translate cell designs and lab recipes into robust, traceable processes ready for industrialization at Northvolt gigafactories. You will work closely together with production, process, quality, and automation engineers to make sure the production process is achieving the required stability and is ready for transfer to gigafactory scale. You will ensure process and equipment meet availability and reliability and resolve production issues with a sense of urgency.
Responsibilities
- Overall areas of responsibilities and activities
- Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to)
- Own pilot-line selected production steps across Wet- and Dry Electrode, Assembly and Formation & Aging processes. Defining, monitoring and improving Operation Parameter Ranges and control windows fit for the Labs pilot productions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define production system requirements, select suitable hardware and software, 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.
- Together with IT and Automation teams implement the necessary dashboards for OEE, FPY, scrap, downtime with Pareto’s and trends to facilitate progress tracking and root cause analysis.
- Prepare and maintain Process Flow, PFMEA and work instructions as preparation for pilot productions.
- Partner with Safety & Environment to validate process changes against standard requirements.
- Own root-cause analysis on equipment and process performance improvements during A- and B-sample productions, following structured