Design to Manufacture Engineer

**Join us and be a pioneer for a green transport revolution.**

**Automotive Cells Company (ACC) is one of Europe’s newest and most exciting high-tech companies. Backed by Saft-Total, Stellantis-Opel and Mercedes-Benz,** ACC is set to **power the future of the automotive industry** by innovating in battery technology.

We aim to produce sustainable, affordable, high-capacity, longer-life batteries as a** cleaner alternative to current energy sources**. We create an R&D center and new state-of-the art facility in France (New Aquitaine), with gigafactories to be built in Hauts de France and Germany.

We need a range of **skilled and agile people** to bring our vision to life, especially in the areas of industrialization, mechanical design, testing/prototyping and any other function of a new-born company. If you’re looking to take your career further than you imagined, if you’re passionate about creating cleaner transport, we’d like to hear from you.

**Accelerating sustainable mobility for all.**

**Job description**:
You will be in charge of:

- Define/Establish close working relationship between cell development, quality and manufacturing teams.
- Establish and maintain close working relationship between different manufacturing sites
- Develop and maintain tools to model manufacturing capability and drive adoption of these tools across the cell development organization
- Elevated potential scalability risks to cell development and manufacturing organizations
- Develop experimental plans to support efforts to identify optimal manufacturing process or demonstrate risks associated with proposed manufacturing solution
- Develop and maintain relationships with different battery manufacturing and quality instruments equipment vendors
- Attend trade shows and follow trade literature to follow latest developments in manufacturing
- Support development team in understanding the criticality of understanding dispersion and stack-up at modelling stage
- Work with operations team and understand required processes and process tact times to meet customer volume requirements

**Profile**:
**Knowledge / Know how**
- Significant exposure to current, state of the art high volume lithium-ion battery manufacturing
- Expertise in at least one domain of lithium-ion battery manufacturing (mixing, coating, stamping, laser cutting, welding, formation, etc)
- Strong fundamental understanding of lithium-ion battery chemistry and operating principles
- Good understanding of statistical methods for evaluating manufacturing capabilty

**Experience**

Minimum 2 years exposure to high volume cell manufacturing. 5+ years working in lithium-ion or related electrochemical technology.

**Qualifications**
- Masters degree in Chemistry/Electrochemistry/Material Science/Mechanical Engineering. Coursework and/or direct work experience using statistical tools to develop experimental plans and analyze results.
- Fluent in English

**Key behaviours**

Analytical and synthetical skills, organization and time-management skills, customer focused, initiative, result and performance motivated, creativity, inventiveness, team spirit, autonomous, good communication and social skills.

**Some extra skills which make the difference**

Exposure to APQP design and development methodologies including design of experiment, FMEA, problem solving methods (8D, 5-why, etc), SPC.