Assistant General Manager, Cell & Process Engineering (PENA) - PENA Panasonic Energy of North America

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Job Title:

Assistant General Manager, Cell & Process Engineering

Job Summary:

The Assistant General Manager, Cell and Process Engineering, manages various production-focused battery development engineering teams and activities in the Engineering Department; this includes, but it is not limited to production engineering planning, directing, and monitoring the manufacturing group to meet engineering safety and quality standards, established specifications, schedules, and volume/cost/loss targets. Additionally, the Assistant General Manager will determine and oversee budgeting objectives to ensure Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) are achieved. Furthermore, the Assistant General Manager will supervise the development of new processes and methods to increase production rates, improve quality, and to reduce defects while reducing costs. At PENA (Panasonic Energy of North America), our Leaders quickly become experts in the fundamentals of lithium-ion cell technology and work to integrate that understanding with high speed, automated manufacturing methods to produce the highest performance and highest quality lithium-ion batteries in the world. 

Essential Duties:

• Manages several organizational segments or teams and be the key stake holder for large complex company programs.
• Directly supervises 50-100 employees in the Engineering Department
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.
• Accountable for people leader responsibilities including interviewing/hiring, developing new employees by planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems
• Leading and supporting engineers in design, development, testing, and maintenance of robust process and equipment simulation models that allow for enhanced fundamental understanding of manufacturing and product challenges, as well as expedited solution development.
• Must be able to effectively drive Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) across the operation, ensuring all projects are delivered with the highest quality standards, while maintaining time and budget guidelines
• Design, plan layout, and oversee others engaged in constructing, controlling, and improving equipment to carry out battery manufacturing processes on commercial scale.
• Lead the team to develop measurement and control systems for electrode manufacturing processes based on data collected in laboratory experiments and pilot plant operations and perform tests and measurements throughout stages of trials and production to determine degree of control over process variables.
• Determine the most effective arrangement of unit operations by exercising judgement to compromise between process requirements, economic evaluation, operator effectiveness, and physical and health hazards.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Requirements:

• To ensure the health and safety in the workplace and for the protection of our employees, wearing PPE is a possibility and may include equipment such as a full Tyvek suit, safety shoes, gloves, safety glasses, face mask, bump cap, and a full hazmat suit that includes a respirator.

The foregoing description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills and efforts or work conditions associated with the job. It is intended to reflect the general nature and level of the job.

Qualifications:  Requirements - Required and/or Preferred

Education:

• Basic/Required:  Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, or related discipline.
• Preferred:  M.S. or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, or related discipline

Essential Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10+ years of engineering experience in areas such as manufacturing, product development, design, or other area
• Evidence of exceptional ability. Panasonic follows a culture of full-cycle engineering where members will have full responsibility and accountability for their projects from start to finish. We are looking for the best of the best.
• 7+ years of leadership experience
• Strong analytic and decision-making abilities. Able to influence others to move towards a common goal.
• Self-motivation and resourcefulness are required.
• Able to manage multiple concurrent tasks in a fast-paced environment, effectively prioritize work, and deliver quality results.
• Intuitive, adaptable, creative, and collaborative with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrate servant leadership to build a high-performing and overachieving team.
• Passionate about developing people and leaders and promoting career development.
• Be very technical and demonstrate the ability to show in-depth understanding of the company business, battery making process, and products.
• Must be data-driven and result-driven.
• Must have working-level knowledge of the English language, including reading, writing, and speaking English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience with Industrial data analysis or Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
• Experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment (1M+ units per day) such as batteries or electronic devices.
• Familiarity with Six Sigma methodologies and tools
• Strong data analysis skills with tools such as JMP, Minitab, Python, or MATLAB are highly desired.
• Experience with battery production or R&D
• Alignment to Panasonic’s seven (7) core principles (contribution to society, fairness and honesty, cooperation and team spirit, untiring effort for improvement, courtesy and humility, adaptability, gratitude)

About Us:

Panasonic Energy of North America (PENA) is collaborating with Tesla at a massive battery factory near Reno, Nevada which is known for its quality of life and expansive outdoor adventures. Panasonic's role at the Gigafactory is to manufacture and supply cylindrical lithium-ion cells to Tesla for their electric vehicles and energy storage systems.

Over the past few years, the Gigafactory has grown to the largest lithium-ion battery factory in the world. Together with our partner Tesla, we continue to revolutionize the lithium-ion battery space and accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy and transportation.

Our mission at PENA is to make the vision of affordable Electric Vehicles a reality by producing the world’s safest, high quality, and lowest cost batteries. Through this effort we will create a clean energy society and our products will change society’s use of and perceptions of electric power.

In addition to an environment that is as innovative as our products, we offer competitive salaries and benefits.

Supplemental Information:

Pre-employment drug testing is required. Due to the high volume of responses, we can only respond to candidates of interest. All candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S (United States). without restriction.

Panasonic is an Equal Opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by law.  All qualified individuals must be able to perform the job's essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

Thank you for your interest in Panasonic Energy of North America.