Purpose

AESC is looking to recruit electrode process and equipment engineers – mixing, coating, calendering and slitting - to join our European Engineering Centre Electrode Engineering team and play a crucial role in supporting the expansion of the battery manufacturing footprint in Europe. These roles report to the leadership for the electrode functional area and will focus on building the electrode manufacturing knowledge and driving engineering aspects of the gigafactories from startup and commissioning to full production capability. Activities to be carried out from remote and site-based locations, therefore flexibility to travel is essential.

The electrode process engineer or equipment engineer will initially join the core project team responsible for the Europe and UK battery plant launches supporting specific process areas of Electrode Manufacturing, integrating into activity phases throughout the buildout and commissioning of the new gigafactories. Acts as an equipment and process engineering resource to the functional engineering teams in their respective regions.

Responsibilities

The electrode process and equipment engineers will be a key contributor towards building a competent technical team responsible for defining, implementing and continuously improving the AESC execution to production systems for electrode manufacturing. The position will be called upon as the key driver in process innovation for their respective process area(s).

General tasks:

• Represent European Engineering Centre electrode engineering team to support gigafactories operations for equipment integration, commissioning and acceptance testing activities
• Participate in technical interaction with Global Engineering Centre Asia engineering teams on electrode specifications to cell products, interfacing on product development, technology transfer and manufacturing best practices
• Continuously develop and refine processes from design to integration and implementation, attending design reviews and working with equipment suppliers
• Actively engage in the overall engineering activities for Electrode Creation relating to the full product life cycle such as design concept validation, process development, equipment stabilization and optimization, manufacturing standardization and continuous improvement of the product
• Actively combine innovative mechanical, system controls, and process techniques to establish novel approaches to increase the level of process automation and improve electrode manufacturing efficiency while maintaining product quality
• Continuously support respective plant engineering teams for the process maintenance of respective electrode process area, using 8D and other methods to solve product/process anomalies
• Support plant engineering teams for the generation and maintenance of WI/OI, FMEA, and other process documents of a certain battery process segment and the training of production staff.
• With respective teams, develop and implement quality strategies to achieve KPI and quality targets

Background and Requirements

• A degree in Engineering including chemical, electro-chemical, manufacturing/ mechanical, materials or similar
• Minimum of 5 years' work experience in similar role in one of the electrode process areas
• Solid experience in rechargeable battery manufacturing or similar
• Experience in automotive, automation/ machinery will be advantage
• Experience of working at medium to large manufacturing company is preferred
• Demonstrate proven skills in the application of systems engineering tools and techniques, such as DOE, FMEA and 8D, to deliver world class quality performance levels
• Demonstrated knowledge of production systems and continuous improvement practices and utilization of data to support measurable improvements
• Knowledge of current legislation of machinery standards

Skills

• Communication
• Problem-Solving
• Adaptability
• Analytical and attention to detail
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Results and goal oriented