Engineer II Maintenance

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AESC is looking to add a Maintenance & Reliability Engineer to our team in Smyrna, TN. Full‑time, On‑site.

AESC is a global leader in the development and manufacturing of high‑performance batteries for zero‑emission electric vehicles and energy storage systems. Founded in Japan in 2007 and headquartered in Yokohama, AESC has built manufacturing capabilities around the world in the U.S., U.K., Europe, Japan and China to serve key markets and leading customers locally for over 14 years. Today, AESC has become the partner of choice for the world’s leading OEMs and energy storage providers in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Its advanced technology powers over one million electric vehicles and provides more than 15 GWh of installed capacity for battery energy systems in over 60 countries. AESC is expanding its footprint in the United States with gigafactories in Kentucky, South Carolina, and Tennessee to meet the growing demand for EV and BESS batteries and strengthen its presence in the North American market.

AESC’s Tennessee gigafactory in Smyrna, which has been operational since 2012, produces batteries for Nissan. The Kentucky gigafactory in Bowling Green will supply Mercedes‑Benz with high‑performance battery cell modules. The South Carolina gigafactory in Florence will supply technology‑leading battery cells for new electric models produced in BMW Group’s Spartanburg plant. AESC is committed to our local communities where it is making its investments, creating jobs, and supporting local charities.

• Specifies, designs, and installs production and facilities systems in assigned area; monitors systems and provides modifications as required to support model changes in assigned area; provides emergency response to daily manufacturing support problems.
• Provides system problem solving in assigned areas; ensures continuous reliability and uptime improvements to systems in assigned areas; analyzes trends and symptoms, addresses quality and downtime concerns, and provides countermeasures in a timely manner.
• Communicates with vendors and suppliers to ensure QCDS goals and cost reduction objectives are met; works with vendors and suppliers on new technologies for better ways to implement manufacturing methods and produce quality products.
• Maintains and updates documentation of new and existing systems in assigned areas; maintains and updates electrical, schematic, and mechanical drawings for new and modified equipment.
• Assists in the development of budgets for assigned areas; prepares project folders and conducts model and capacity studies with budget development.
• Provides training and information to maintenance and production personnel for new and existing equipment.
• Assists manufacturing on productivity, ergonomic, quality and safety issues to ensure timely problem resolution. As necessary, performs other related duties of which the above are representative.
• Communicate and schedule equipment needs with maintenance personnel, production planners and supervisors, to include proactive, predictive, urgent, minor, and major maintenance work.
• Drive improvements to the plant preventive maintenance system, to include implementation of TPM (total productive maintenance)
• Scope, , award, and supervise contractor maintenance work and capital projects.
• Monitor equipment efficiency (OEE) and preventive/predictive maintenance process to identify problems and set up corrective repairs.
• Maintain department repair records in a manner to best identify future preventive maintenance needs.
• Develop and enter Preventative Maintenance program into Maintenance Connect.
• Knowledge of basic reliability and data related gathering and processing methodologies.
• Assists in identifying top potential downtime issues throughout the system.
• Gathers and examines basic reliability data from past studies and correlates data for analysis using well defined engineering techniques, principles, and procedures.
• Analyzes equipment and MES data to help develop and deploy…