Mechanical Engineer Co-Op

Storion Energy•Billerica, MA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

We are looking to hire a Co-op starting in January 2027 and working through July 2027. Storion Energy is a joint venture between Stryten Energy and Largo Inc. and is at the forefront of commercializing Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries (VRFBs) within the United States. Largo is a vanadium mining company with the only western-friendly vanadium mine in the world, located in Brazil. Stryten is a leading lead-acid battery manufacturer supplying energy storage solutions to the automotive, industrial, and stationary power markets. Storion Energy was formed from the VRFB divisions of each company and is focused on supplying specialty VRFB components to the long-duration energy storage (LDES) market. We are uniquely positioned to drive down costs to allow new entrants into the flow battery market, which will drive competition with lithium-based LDES products. VRFB LDES products help address renewable energy intermittency issues, provide grid resiliency, and enable a cleaner electricity grid. This position pays $25 per hour and requires on-site daily work in Billerica, MA.

Requirements

Working towards BS in Mechanical Engineering
Minimum GPA of 3.0
Must have housing and transportation to our Billerica, MA location.
Must be able and willing to work with battery electrolyte, which is acidic and requires wearing PPE (lab coat, gloves, safety glasses or goggles, and other job-specific PPE)
Ability to lift 30-pound boxes of parts
Legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or at any time in the future.

Nice To Haves

Students entering their second or third Co-op preferred
Hands-on self-starters who can take a project from start to finish with ease.
Excellent problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills that can be applied to cross-functional teams.
Skilled at problem identification, prototyping and iterative design, validation testing, and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

Support Storion’s product development team with a focus on our battery stack development needs.
Support product design initiatives, prototype stack assembly and quality control, stack power assembly testing, and work on other projects as needed.
Contribute to engineering projects by performing a wide range of assignments.
Working on product development, including concept development and testing
Hands-on testing in the electrochemical lab and shop floor
Operating pilot-scale sub-scale and full-scale equipment and machinery
Data collection, processing, and analysis
Designing and modeling stack parts, GD&T, and subassemblies within SolidWorks
Generating and modifying manufacturing drawings and applying GD&T
Performing tolerance stack-up analysis
Performing preliminary structural analysis within SolidWorks
Performing design calculations related to strength, temperature, and flow for the stack parts
Design for Manufacture and Assembly
Assembly, testing, debugging, and documentation for mechanical fixtures and devices
Experimental design (DOE)
Root cause analysis
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis