Battery Mechanical Engineer

Battery Mechanical Engineer

• Ownership of battery pack integration including the design and release of parts and final assembly integration techniques to ensure a successful product launch.
• Define cell and pack requirements with product engineering teams to find the best options for product volume, weight, and run time.
• Research, design, evaluate, install, operate, or maintain mechanical products, equipment, systems and processes to meet requirements.
• Confer with engineers or other personnel to implement operating procedures, resolve system malfunctions, and provide technical information.
• Recommend design modifications to eliminate mechanical, machine, and system malfunctions.
• Conduct research that tests and analyzes the feasibility, mechanical soundness, design, operation, and performance of equipment, components, and systems.
• Develop test and validation plans for manufacturing and characterizing battery packs.
• Support module and system reliability testing with internal and external organizations.
• Work with safety, reliability, operations, and other cross functional partners to integrate the battery into the final system.
• Perform Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) reviews with suppliers.
• Create statistical tolerance, functional dimensioning, and geometric tolerancing analyses.
• Conduct rigorous failure, root cause, and corrective action analyses.
• Communicate with cell/pack vendors for component and sub-assembly builds.
• Support final assembly activities at supplier sites to ensure the proper integration of the battery into the final system.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ YOE
• Mechanical engineering with battery pack design and integration
• Design and release processes in 3D CAD packages, including Siemens NX, Teamcenter, SolidWorks, and Creo.
• Plastic molded parts, sheet metal design, and CNC design rules and PCB/flex design and integration.