Battery Cell Engineer, Trials and Problem Solving (On-site, Liberty, NC)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or a similar technical field
• 3 plus years of equivalent engineering experience in a manufacturing environment
• Manufacturing production-preparation and schedule/deliverable management (project plan, process/equipment plan, specification, procurement, installation, trial)
• 2 plus years (5 plus preferred) of winding, cell assembly, and electrolyte fill on automotive cells
• Battery cell product, process/equipment, and trial experience; interpreting specifications, drawings, and data with change-point management
• Cross-functional coordination (production engineering, manufacturing, R&D, quality) and senior-leadership reporting
• Able to work onsite in Liberty, NC, travel up to 15% (domestic and international, including Japan), and work overtime up to 25% including weekends and shutdowns
• Preferred: lean / production-system methods; product-and-process simultaneous engineering for new model; data analytics; digital engineering tools; Japanese language

Required Skills

• Battery cell pre-production trial planning and management
• Structured problem solving (root-cause analysis, countermeasure, recurrence prevention)
• Battery cell processes: winding, cell assembly, and electrolyte fill
• Quality confirmation and good-process-and-product condition development
• Cross-functional coordination and senior-leadership reporting
• Specification, drawing, and data interpretation with change-point management
• *Software / tools:* data analytics tools; digital engineering / model-data software; MS Office