Quality Engineering Technician I
About The Position
Panasonic Energy Corporation of North America (PECNA) is seeking ambitious engineers to lead the world’s largest lithium ion battery initiative. With superior battery designs and the fastest manufacturing lines in the world, Panasonic is producing millions of batteries per day at the Gigafactory to support Tesla’s electric vehicle and energy storage businesses. Panasonic invites you to join us in this ongoing full-scale effort to electrify our society. At PECNA, engineers quickly become experts in the fundamentals of lithium-ion cell technology and work to integrate that understanding with high speed, automated manufacturing methods to produce the highest performance and highest quality lithium ion batteries.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, or similar discipline.
- 1-3 years of quality engineering experience
- Experience with quality control of batteries or electronic devices. Quality assurance work is desired.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to effectively conduct root cause analysis.
- Familiarity with quality management tools (control chart, FTA, FMEA, etc.) and MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
- Problem solving skills and attention to details.
- Must have working-level knowledge of the English language, including reading, writing, and speaking English
Nice To Haves
- Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, or similar discipline.
- Experience using ISO 9001 quality management system auditing.
- Experience with laboratory analysis using X-Ray, SEM, ICP, or similar tools.
- A background as a quality engineer in high-volume manufacturing is strongly desired.
- Data analysis experience such as statistical process control of production data.
- Experience in defect reduction of high-volume manufacturing products.
- Alignment to Panasonic’s seven (7) core principles (contribution to society, fairness and honesty, cooperation and team spirit, untiring effort for improvement, courtesy and humility, adaptability, gratitude)
Responsibilities
- Provides support with establishing quality control systems in the battery production process.
- Assists with levels II & II on conducting management work for quality performance to maintain battery cell safety and quality.
- Supports with the analyzing and evaluating process input/output data to reduce defects.
- Providing support to the cell manufacturing process to resolve production issues with quality.
- Monitoring and controlling production quality and implementing appropriate actions for out of control situations.
- Other duties may be assigned.
Benefits
- Offering medical, dental, vision, prescription plans, plus Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account options.
- Life, accident, critical illness, disability, legal, identity theft, and pet insurance.
- 401(k) plan with company matching contributions and immediate vesting.
- Vacation, holidays, personal days, sick leave, volunteer, and parental & caregiver leave.
- Tuition reimbursement for job-related courses after six months of service.
- Lifestyle Spending Account, EAP, virtual health management, chronic condition, neurodiversity, tobacco cessation, substance abuse support, and life stage and fertility resources.
- High5 employee recognition and awards platform, quarterly and annual employee recognition
- Opportunity for an annual performance-based bonus.
- Several on-site cafes, plentiful snack and beverage kitchens, revolving on-site vendor visits and employee events
- Free Shuttle: Rides to and from work!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
