Sorting Manager, Energy Storage
About The Position
About Redwood Materials Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling — keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2019, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have. Sorting Manager Essential Duties: Redwood Materials is currently searching for a Head of Sorting Technology to join our e ngineering team and develop robotics technology to automatically sort battery feedstock at the input to our recycling plants. This is a leadership role with strategic and tactical components; a successful candidate will build and lead a cross functional engineering team of software, controls, mechanical, and electrical engineers to create the future of s orting t echnology for the company.
Requirements
- BS/MS in Engineering , and 10 + years of engineering and engineering leadership experience in a fast paced, highly fluid environment
- Proficiency across hardware and software stacks as applied in industries like robotics, vehicle automation, or factory automation
- Well versed in all types of machine/automation components, sensors, vision systems, electro-mechanical actuators, motion control, pneumatics, hydraulics, etc.
- Ability to perform the essential job functions consistent safely and successfully with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
- Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state, and local standards
Responsibilities
- Technical l ead for the architecture, design , implementation and test of an automated battery sorting system
- People lead for a cross functional team of engineers with a focus on growing and mentoring engineers
- Build ing a strong team and culture of safety, execution and innovation through data driven engineering
- Collaborat ing with product , finance , operations and engineering teams to iterate on system requirements that make sense for the business, plant operators, and technical stakeholders for downstream battery consumption
- Decision making for make versus buy for hardware and software components including but not limited to sensors, actuators, conveyer systems , ML infrastructure and compute systems
- Requirements authorship for a reliable and accurate production sorting system
- Own the technology roadmap for automated sorting systems at the company
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
