Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer I

Panasonic Energy Corporation of North America (PECNA) is seeking ambitious engineers to lead the world's largest lithium ion battery initiative. With superior battery designs and the fastest manufacturing lines in the world, Panasonic is producing millions of batteries per day at the Gigafactory to support Tesla's electric vehicle and energy storage businesses. Panasonic invites you to join us in this ongoing full-scale effort to electrify our society.

At PECNA, engineers 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.

Essential Duties:

• Being a part of Panasonic's Battery Manufacturing Engineering team.
• The Manufacturing Engineering team is responsible for supporting Panasonic's battery production to ensure our world-class production is running smoothly and without issue. In addition, we continually seek to improve our process by means of productivity, quality, cost, and other metrics.
• Works with levels II & III to assist in the engineering support related to daily production activities.
• Works to optimize OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency) to increase productivity and reduce defect and loss.
• Utilizes OEE and other production data to effectively manage tasks and activities.
• Learning & demonstrating solid troubleshooting skills and ability to quickly solve unknown problems.
• Troubleshooting real time production problems to maintain production and reduce defects.
• Assists with levels II & III in working with Maintenance teams to coordinate maintenance activities ranging from reactive to preventative maintenance.
• Working with engineering/maintenance teams to develop permanent countermeasures to common problems in daily manufacturing.
• Provides support to the implementing and expanding these new permanent countermeasures into production lines.
• Learning the monitoring and auditing manufacturing processes to ensure product specifications and standards are achieved.
• Applying technical knowledge to develop clear and standard work instructions, SOP's and troubleshooting guides.
• Implementing and supporting manufacturing industrial automation.
• Other duties may be assigned

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.

Qualifications Requirements - Required and/or

Preferred Education:

Basic/

Required:

High School diploma or GED B.S./M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related discipline

Essential

Qualifications:

• 1-3 years of relevant experience
• 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
• Experience performing engineering functions and responsibilities in a manufacturing environment
• Able to work production shift schedules
• Able to assist in training manufacturing operators on new or revised manufacturing process instructions or tooling
• Should be flexible with the working environment and be able to perform job duties between manufacturing floor and office/desk
• Must be able to learn and perform machine and process troubleshooting and apply root cause analysis
• Experience in manufacturing background with high mechanical with high mechanical aptitude preferred.
• Mechanical troubleshooting skills
• Knowledge or experience with 3D CAD, mechanical drawings, MPO, P&IDs.
• Design of fixtures, jigs, brackets, etc.
• Ability and examples of improvement of maintainability of equipment
• Must possess engineering skills (process development/improvement, troubleshooting, data analysis, tolerancing, MPI's).
• Capability of identifying critical process parameters.
• Knowledge of FTA, FMEA, etc.
• Strong team working skills at all levels of an organization, especially skilled at working with direct labor to understand…