Engineering Manager: Electrode Assembly Ops & Scale-Up Leader

Form Energy; Weirton (WV); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Stock options

Competitive salaries

Job summary

Form Energy is hiring an Engineering Manager to oversee Electrode Assembly Operations at our Weirton, WV facility. You will lead the operations engineering and technician teams responsible for lamination, welding, gluing, and inspection, focusing on performance, reliability, and factory efficiency.

You will coach and develop staff, champion continuous improvement, and partner with engineering leadership to translate insights into scalable manufacturing improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related engineering field.
• 7+ years of manufacturing, production, or industrial operations experience.
• Experience hiring, developing, and managing process engineers or technicians.
• Familiarity with manufacturing metrics such as OEE and downtime tracking.

Responsibilities

• Own operations engineering results across lamination, welding, gluing, and inspection.
• Manage and develop a team of process engineers and technicians.
• Establish and track section-level metrics (OEE, yield, cycle time) and direct resources to bottlenecks.
• Set standards for evaluating floor-level solutions and safe, robust fixes before scale-up.
• Represent the section in cross-functional planning with engineering and manufacturing teams.
• Build and prioritize a continuous improvement roadmap balancing waste reduction and reliability.
• Act as the escalation point between shop floor and systems engineering.

Skills

Team leadership

Operational metrics

Process engineering

Data-driven

Cross-functional collaboration

Scale-up experience

Education

Bachelor’s in Mechanical/Industrial Engineering

Tools

ERP systems

OEE software

Job description

Form Energy is hiring an Engineering Manager to oversee Electrode Assembly Operations at our Weirton, WV facility. You will lead the operations engineering and technician teams responsible for lamination, welding, gluing, and inspection, focusing on performance, reliability, and factory efficiency.

You will coach and develop staff, champion continuous improvement, and partner with engineering leadership to translate insights into scalable manufacturing improvements.