Sr. Quality Lab Engineer
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.
- Experience with laboratory analysis using chromatography, ICP, SEM/EDS, FTIR, TGA, or similar tools.
- Academic or industry experience with materials characterization, elemental analysis, or electrochemistry.
- Expertise in handling chemicals and following laboratory safety procedures.
- Familiarity with quality management tools (control chart, FTA, FMEA, etc.) and MS Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
- Problem solving skills and close attention to detail.
- 8+ years of engineering or laboratory experience.
- Valid authorization to work in the U.S. without restriction.
Nice To Haves
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, or similar discipline.
- Experience using ISO 9001 quality management system auditing.
- A laboratory background working in high-volume manufacturing is strongly desired.
- Experience developing analytical laboratory methods.
- Data analysis experience such as statistical process control of production data.
- Experience in defect reduction of high-volume manufacturing products.
Responsibilities
- Providing rapid response conducting laboratory analysis for production support and root cause analysis.
- Having responsibility for all manner of chemical/materials analysis to change and improve processes and resolve production issues.
- Conducting failure analysis to address quality or reliability concerns regarding Panasonic’s battery cells.
- Utilizing analytical instrumentation to conduct analysis and provide support to a multitude of groups within the organization.
- Analyzing and evaluating process input/output data to reduce defects and improve battery performance.
- Providing support to the cell manufacturing process to resolve production quality issues.
- Providing support to customers to resolve claims on cell production quality issues.
- Other duties may be assigned.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, prescription plans
- 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
- 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
Senior
