Senior Battery Manufacturing Engineer — High-Volume Ops

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Form Energy is seeking a Principal Manufacturing Engineer to scale battery manufacturing. You will own equipment development from bench to automated systems, partner with design to drive DFM improvements, and select integrators for high-volume production.

You’ll install, qualify, and document robust processes with emphasis on safety, uptime, and quality. You’ll collaborate with design, supply chain, operations, and facilities while mentoring hands‑on technicians and coordinating with external

Qualifications

• 18+ years of equipment or manufacturing engineering experience, ideally in an electro‑mechanical assembly environment.
• Direct experience purchasing and setting up new automated manufacturing equipment.
• Experience writing Standard Operating Procedures and other manufacturing documentation.
• Experience working with design engineers and providing DFM/DFA feedback.
• Readiness to perform hands‑on build and test of workstations and equipment.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills and ability to effectively collaborate with a wide range of other professionals and suppliers.
• Experience with plastic and metal welding, automated assembly, inspection, and test, human‑assist automation for assembly and test, programming automation equipment, and/or MES systems is a plus but not required
• BS in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or Electrical Engineering

Responsibilities

• Own the development, build or purchase, and deployment of manufacturing workstations and equipment ranging from initial manual benchtop stations to fully automated and integrated systems
• Provide Design for Manufacturability feedback to the engineering team, working closely with them throughout the development process, and own decisions for design changes that enable high volume production
• Rigorously select and partner with equipment integrators from equipment development through hand off to operations teams
• Install, commission, and qualify new equipment and fixtures
• Design, document, and deliver robust processes capable of a high level of safety, uptime, and quality
• Lead the debugging and resolution of time-sensitive issues with manufacturing equipment and processes as they arise
• Collaborate with the team to train hands‑on labor on new manufacturing equipment and processes
• Work with a diversity of teams inside and outside the company to achieve overall manufacturing success

Skills

Equipment engineering

Procurement

SOP writing

DFM/DFA feedback

Hands-on build

Technical communication

Welding/Automation

Education

BS in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or Electrical Engineering

Tools

MES systems

Job description

Form Energy is seeking a Principal Manufacturing Engineer to scale battery manufacturing. You will own equipment development from bench to automated systems, partner with design to drive DFM improvements, and select integrators for high-volume production.

You’ll install, qualify, and document robust processes with emphasis on safety, uptime, and quality. You’ll collaborate with design, supply chain, operations, and facilities while mentoring hands‑on technicians and coordinating with external