Separator Process Engineer: Battery Manufacturing Optimizer

Vangrace; Danville, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Vangrace in Virginia is seeking a Process Engineer to develop, optimize, and support manufacturing processes for lithium battery separator production. You will own certain processes and use engineering methods, data analysis, and problem solving to improve safety, quality, yield, throughput, and cost.

Collaborate with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, R&D, EHS, and Supply Chain to troubleshoot, establish process windows, support scale-up, and drive continuous improvement through root cause

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level engineering degree required in Mechanical, Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering.
• 3–7 years of process engineering experience in lithium battery manufacturing or related fields preferred.
• Strong problem-solving skills with proficiency in SPC, DOE, PFMEA, Root Cause Analysis, and Lean/Six Sigma.

Responsibilities

• Own and support assigned manufacturing processes, including mixing, coating, slitting, material handling and related separator production operations.
• Analyze process performance, optimize operating parameters, improve safety, quality, yield, throughput, reliability, and cost.
• Troubleshoot process-related production issues, lead root-cause investigations, and implement corrective actions.
• Establish, document and maintain process windows, setup standards, and engineering procedures.
• Support production startup, process validation, equipment qualification readiness, and scale-up activities.
• Lead continuous improvement projects focused on scrap reduction, yield improvement, cycle-time reduction, and equipment reliability.

Skills

Process engineering

Root Cause Analysis

DOE

Six Sigma

SPC

Data analysis

Education

BS in Mechanical/Industrial/Manufacturing Eng

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Vangrace in Virginia is seeking a Process Engineer to develop, optimize, and support manufacturing processes for lithium battery separator production. You will own certain processes and use engineering methods, data analysis, and problem solving to improve safety, quality, yield, throughput, and cost.

Collaborate with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, R&D, EHS, and Supply Chain to troubleshoot, establish process windows, support scale-up, and drive continuous improvement through root cause