ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:

• PhD or MS in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related discipline

EXPERIENCE:

Minimum requirements:

• A minimum of 5-10 years of industrial experience in lithium polymer primary or secondary batteries.

• Knowledge of and familiarity with development and use of battery life models.

• Successful management of technical development projects.

• Must intimately understand current technology component of product.

• Proficient in MS Office.

Competencies:

• Possess innovative drive to ensure the strong growth of the company.

• Be a student of current industry trends, ensuring the company maintains its technology leadership position.

• Take responsibility for decisions.

• Foster collaboration to build and support a team environment. Know when and how to use a team approach for problem solving.

• Build relationships, treat others with respect, and relate well to others regardless of their personality or background.

• Develop effective working relationships with peers, executive management and non-management co-workers; communicate and interface with all levels of company personnel to support individual units as needed.

• Effectively and persuasively communicate ideas, approaches and concepts.

• Possess self-confidence with an absence of arrogance.

• Be committed to honesty, excellence and continuous improvement.

Skills:

• Interact and work effectively across all functional areas (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing and Quality) and at all levels of the organization.

• Ability to work independently, retain flexibility and maintain composure under pressure.

• Must be able to translate technical information into real customer advantages.

• Strong oral and written communications. Must be able to efficiently engage and inform peers and subordinates, and coordinate the efforts of multiple parties with disparate goals.

• Excellent organizational and communication skills, both oral and written.

• Strong priority and time management skills (Self- motivated and self-managing).

• Respond to strategic and tactical changes as required.

• The candidate must be highly motivated, detail-oriented, and hands-on with extensive knowledge in designing lithium primary batteries.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

General:

• The Director Battery R&D/Senior Electrochemist will be responsible for the company’s product design/development and standard qualification testing of all manufactured batteries. The ideal candidate will have successfully designed various battery configurations from initial prototype builds through commercial volumes. The candidate must be highly motivated, detail-oriented, and hands-on with extensive knowledge in designing lithium primary batteries.

Specific:

• Management of technical project planning and timing (work plan).

• Hiring, managing, developing and coaching staff to ensure that staff members perform to expectations and fulfill all the responsibilities set forth in their responsibilities statements.

• Characterization and analysis of material properties, such as, mechanical, morphological and electro chemical characteristics.

• Research, identification and implementation of advanced materials and techniques related to electrode processing, at least on a pilot scale.

• Interpret and communicate material properties and characteristics as they relate to electrode manufacturing processes to Process Engineering staff.

• Leads projects including replacement and qualification of suppliers, development of new analytical techniques, development of design of experiment plans with Process Engineering, manufacture of unique powder formulations at bench to production scale, coordinating development battery building and testing.

• Present papers and reports to symposiums, conferences and other technical meetings related to chemical power technology.

• Development of cell design and process failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA).

• Identification of critical design characteristics.

• Maintenance of project planning, data, and reporting.

• Develop cell design specifications and design validation methods and plans.

• Employ design-of-experiments (DOE) to isolate and quantify cell degradation mechanisms.

• Support the definition and documentation of cell failure mechanisms, transfer function, and key failure stress factors.

• Detailed analysis of cell design, including, Electrode, Electrochemistry composition and selection, Electrode and cell fabrication processing.

• Interacting with the Sales & Marketing, Manufacturing Operations, Product Development and other interfaces in formulating the technology vision.

• Providing support and feedback into the product planning process to ensure the most profitable products are developed.

• Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned at any time and from time to time.

LOCATION: Southeast USA

CONTACT: Mike Dolan - mdolan@tsacareers.com

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