Staff Manufacturing Engineer, Electrode

The role

This person will support the electrode processing team by designing, developing, and scaling manufacturing equipment for Iron-Air batteries. The role focuses on calendering, drying, and slitting processes to ensure equipment meets process needs.

What you will do

• Manage vendors through equipment design, FAT, commissioning and SAT for calendering, drying and slitting operations.
• Partner with the Process Engineering Team to ensure equipment design matches process needs.
• Work with the procurement team to identify and select equipment suppliers.
• Mentor, guide, and support technicians and junior process engineers.
• Champion safety while scaling initial process designs to full production volume.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with manufacturing engineering in a pilot line or fast-paced manufacturing environment, such as NPI or scale-up.
• Hands on experience with calendering, drying and slitting processes.
• Demonstrated track record of equipment purchasing, commissioning and testing.
• Proficiency with statistical methods and tools for making process development decisions (using JMP, Minitab, or equivalent).
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Experience authoring process, safety, and quality documentation.
• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Stock options
• 100% medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
• 80% healthcare premiums for dependents
• At least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents
• Up to 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents
• Generous vacation policies
• Relocation assistance

About the company

Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company revolutionizing energy storage with multi-day technology. They are scaling production of iron-air batteries at their high-volume manufacturing facility in West Virginia.