For informal enquiries, please contact Rob Gruar (Chief Engineer – Electrochemical Materials and Manufacturing) at Rob.Gruar@warwick.ac.uk.
Working pattern will be 4 x 10 hour shifts per week (start and finish times to be confirmed).
40 hour working week, which will be 36.5 hours per week plus 3.5 hours contracted overtime at 1.5 hours
Are you ready to join a growing research group in energy storage and batteries? Do you have a strong background in chemistry or process engineering with experience in inks and coatings development, and/or battery cell design and manufacture? We are looking for a Project Engineer to drive our electrode and cell scale-up production and test activities with our industrial and academic partners.
Using the resources of our Energy Innovation Centre (EIC), you will join the team working on the Battery Scale-Up line to deliver projects focused on upscaling from a low volume laboratory scale, up to high volume production working specifically on the Advanced Material Battery Industrialisation Centre (AMBIC) and Flexible Pilot Line (FPL) process equipment. The project will deliver breakthrough knowledge for the benefit of all battery manufacturing sectors, including automotive, aerospace and consumer electronic. Our pilot line facilities are unique within the UK and allow manufacturing and scientific challenges such as improving energy density, power density, quality, cost, functional safety, reliability and improving lifetime to be addressed for the benefit of industry.
We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.
About You
You will have experience in developing electrode inks and coatings and/or battery cell design and manufacture and have working knowledge of process and quality control. Experience of electrochemistry would be an advantage but not essential. You will have a high level of attention to detail with previous experience of record keeping for quality purposes and traceability. You will be experienced in planning and running production and test activities and delivering projects to time and budget. Your good and adaptable communication (oral and written) and presentation and training skills will enable you to work effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues and project partners
In addition to this, you will possess a good honours degree or equivalent in chemistry, physics, materials, engineering, or another relevant discipline and ideally a doctorate level qualification in a relevant research field (or equivalent).