AESC | Customer Project Manager
AESC is the world’s leading battery technology company and lithium-ion battery manufacturer with battery plants in Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and China. This is a unique opportunity to join one of the most exciting, large-scale industrial developments in many years, where new and emerging technologies will be adopted in support of the rapidly growing electric vehicle marketplace.
AESC is currently seeking a highly skilled Customer Project Manager for a significant product development project. This project involves the development of new generation of battery and introduction to large-scale production lines that have never been built before, aiming to accelerate the automotive world electrification and CO2 emission.
Your responsibilities include:
- Before project approval, work together with Marketing & Sales department and Customer solution department in pre-sales project management, complete project approval and opportunity acquisition
- After project approval, as Project team leader, responsible for the whole process of project development, responsible for delivery, cost and quality
- For new launch of developed product in new plant, manage as specific project to ensure localization of design, process, supply chain and logistic scopes, responsible for delivery, cost and quality
Background and Requirements:
- Bachelor degree or above, good English listening, speaking, reading and writing skills; Chinese speaker will be highly desired
- More than 5 years’ experience in the automotive industry, including 3 years of project management experience with customer interface experience
- Good knowledge of cost management, progress management and quality management
- Have a certain degree of understanding of battery products and vehicle development process
- Have a certain understanding of new energy industry policies in different countries
- Rapid risk identification and problem solving skills
- Departments
- PMO
- Locations
- Sunderland, UK
- Sectors
- Battery Manufacturing
Why AESC?
AESC is an exciting, newly created global organisation committed to solving the challenges of a sustainable future and becoming the leading supplier of full-value-chain battery solutions. Our lithium-ion batteries can be found in more than 700,000 electric vehicles worldwide. We are working hard towards unlocking the full potential of sustainable energy and climate change mitigation. We will continue to build upon our successes and expand into new markets and industries, producing innovative and competitive products and technologies that advance the goal of a zero-carbon emission future.
AESC is headquartered in China and Japan and has battery manufacturing locations in Japan, UK, China, US with several giga-projects ongoing in France, Spain, China, UK and Japan.
What can AESC offer you?
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Learning & Development
AESC is a company that invests in its employees by offering a wide variety of training and development programs. Engineering training and onboarding programs for all business-critical-related functions. As the French entity is new, AESC is also investing in developing full employee onboarding plans. International development and learning possibilities for all employees in a worldwide environment.
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Culture & Colleagues
AESC is an international company with production entities in Japan, the US, the UK, and China. A strong multi-cultural management team and organization; with a strong respect and a good understanding of cross-culture differences. Offers the platform for unlimited worldwide development opportunities for the employees to grow their careers.
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Work at a world-class and innovative Gigafactoryy
AESC is investing almost two billion euros to build a battery manufacturing plant in the Hauts-de-France Region. The new Douai site will have a production capacity of 9GWh in 2024, with the potential to reach 24GWh by 2030 to produce state-of-the-art, low-carbon batteries. The site will initially supply the Renault factory which will be increasingly dedicated to producing the brand’s electric vehicles.
AESC | Customer Project Manager
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