Engineering Chemical Team Manager (F/M)

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As a Chemical Team Manager your job will be to...

  • Manage the product engineering chemistry team.
  • Supervise teammates to ensure developments programs execution.
  • Resource workload management and topics prioritization when needed.
  • Ensure EV cells chemistry materials and slurry formations design activities relevant with projects and company roadmap and objectives.
  • Participate to department long term roadmap and orientations drafting.
  • Plan and animate internal standards and technical referential creation.
  • Run and plan OPEX and CAPEX budget for the team.


Main Missions:

  • Hire, Manage and coach the product engineering chemistry seniors, engineers and technicians
  • Structure the team to support multiples customer projects
  • Draft and animate the improvement of internal standards, processes and methodologies implementations
  • Contribute to the company roadmap
  • Apply and transmit its expertise on Li-ion cell electrochemistry.
  • Apply and transmit its expertise on Li-ion cell manufacturing at lab, pilot and industrial scale
  • Propose new concepts and materials to improve EV cell at chemistry, relevant with company roadmap
  • Build and test prototypes
  • Apply agile technics to be able to answer quickly to various internal and external customers.
  • Lead and manage internal and external projects, contracts, while collaborating with internal teams (R&D, Industrialization, Projects, Simulation, …).
  • Lead and manage collaborations with suppliers, customers and strategic partners.
  • Be aware of and analyses solutions from competitors.
  • Be up to date to the state of the art on its topic of expertise.
  • Participate to international meetings and contribute to the company fame.
  • Support Intellectual Property monitoring and propose innovative patentable concepts.

Preferred experience


Know How

  • Management and team motivation
  • Excellent understanding of the Li-ion accumulators technology
  • Excellent understanding of current technological locks and limits
  • Electrochemistry applied to battery
  • Manufacturing processes of Li-ion cell
  • Knowledge on various analytical methods


Experience

  • 10 years’ experience in similar job at automotive or battery manufacturer
  • 5+ years technical team management
  • International experience (China, Japan, Korea, Germany, USA) in R&D and/or Production for Li-ion battery


Qualification

  • PhD in Chemistry/Electrochemistry/Material Science
  • Fluent in English


Key behaviour

  • Leadership and team management skills
  • Autonomous, Initiative, Motivated, Proactivity, team spirit, synthetic reporting
  • Good communication and social skills
  • Customer focused, result and performance motivated
  • Organization and time-management skills 


Some extra skills which could make a difference

  • Lab conception, materials synthesis/manufacturing
  • Experienced in design or industrialization for mass production
  • Failure modes analysis, problem solving methods (8D), statistics
  • French, any other languages


Our Advantages and Perks: new premises, parking spaces reserved for carpoolers, possibility of recharging your electric car on reserved spaces in our parking lot.

Other perks and advantages include : Janitorial services, telecommuting, complementary retirement (subject to a salary threshold), osteopathy sessions, company restaurant, meal and also vegetables/fruits baskets delivery service.
You also benefit from access to our Sports & Culture association, sports subsidy, conferences, etc.
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