Battery Process Engineer: Scale & Optimize Materials

Critical Fit Recruiting; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Critical Fit Recruiting seeks a Process Engineer - Battery to work with Engineering and Operations, translating new processes into repeatable procedures and owning process control and data analysis to meet safety, capacity, and yield targets.

You will design and optimize chemical/materials processes, drive DOE studies, and lead equipment designs while collaborating with internal and external teams in a startup environment.

Qualifications

• Experience developing chemical processes and continuous manufacturing workflows.
• Ability to perform hazard analyses and define engineering controls.
• Experience with process FMEA and risk mitigation.
• Strong statistics knowledge: capability analysis, control charts, ANOVA, hypothesis testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize chemical/materials processes for commercial production.
• Deliver milestones for Release-to-Manufacturing and scaling across new processes.
• Develop and execute DOEs to improve process understanding and stability.
• Perform root cause analysis and resolve assignable variation.
• Identify instrumentation and controls to enable process characterization.
• Lead equipment design or modification with internal/external teams.
• Assist Operations in workflow improvements.
• Establish quality metrics with quality engineers.
• Lead process FMEA for new processes.
• Uphold safety, organization, communication, and documentation standards.
• Implement 6S for production equipment and workstations.
• Adapt in startup/small company settings and seek continuous improvement.

Skills

Chemical process development

Roll-to-roll systems

Data acquisition

Statistical analysis

Process control

6S principles

Root cause analysis

FMEA

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Chemical Engineering or Materials Science

Tools

DOE (design of experiments)

Process monitoring tools

Job description

Critical Fit Recruiting seeks a Process Engineer - Battery to work with Engineering and Operations, translating new processes into repeatable procedures and owning process control and data analysis to meet safety, capacity, and yield targets.

You will design and optimize chemical/materials processes, drive DOE studies, and lead equipment designs while collaborating with internal and external teams in a startup environment.