Battery Materials QC Technician

GDI is creating the future of energy storage. GDI’s battery technology will allow electric vehicles to go much farther and batteries to last much longer. When a battery is running low, it will charge in a fraction of the time needed by conventional lithium-ion batteries. But that’s not good enough, not even close. GDI is focused on safety, and we’ve got the technology to prove it.

But even that’s not enough, which is why we need your help to make the apex lithium-ion battery needed throughout the new economy.

GDI is an investor-backed company focused on electrode development, manufacturing, and advanced materials. Our team has decades of experience and holds over 40 patents. We create cutting-edge technology that will make the world a better place.

We are seeking a Battery Materials QA/QC Technician to support internal quality assurance, incoming materials inspection, and process improvement activities within a battery research and development laboratory setting. This position will be responsible for inspecting and evaluating incoming anode materials, collecting and analyzing quality data, assigning numerical quality grades, and communicating results to battery engineers and scientists.

The successful candidate will operate specialized scanning and inspection equipment with proprietary/internal software to evaluate incoming electrode materials against established quality specifications and criteria. The role will combine hands-on laboratory work with data analysis, root cause investigation, quality trending, and process improvement.

This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career scientist or technician interested in developing expertise at the intersection of battery materials, quality control, data analysis, and manufacturing process development.

• Receive, identify, sample, and inspect incoming anode materials according to established procedures and specifications.

• Operate specialized scanning and imaging equipment to inspect incoming electrode materials for defects, variation, and other quality characteristics.

• Utilize internal software and analytical tools to process inspection data and evaluate material quality.

• Analyze scanned material data and assign numerical quality grades based on established quality criteria.

• Identify material defects, abnormalities, dimensional variation, surface characteristics, and other indicators of potential quality issues.

• Compare incoming material quality against specifications, historical data, and established acceptance criteria.

• Maintain accurate and complete records of incoming material inspections and quality grades.

• Identify and document out-of-specification or unusual material conditions.

• Maintain full traceability of material lots, samples, inspection results, and quality grades.

• Analyze inspection and quality-control data to identify trends, patterns, variation, and potential sources of material or process instability.

• Develop and maintain spreadsheets, databases, reports, prepare presentations, and other tools used to track material quality.

• Monitor quality metrics and communicate changes or trends to engineering and R&D personnel.

• Compare material quality across suppliers, lots, batches, and processing conditions.

• Support development of statistical methods and quantitative approaches for evaluating material quality.

• Help establish and refine quality thresholds and acceptance criteria using historical and experimental data.

• Identify correlations between incoming material characteristics and downstream electrode-processing or cell-performance results.

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