Battery Team Lead

Harbinger

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Garden Grove, CA, USA

Posted on: 2026-01-28

Category: emobility

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Harbinger is a commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger's best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs. Leveraging a foundation of proprietary, in-house developed vehicle technologies designed specifically for commercial vehicles, Harbinger is bringing a first-of-its-kind EV platform to market, priced for zero acquisition premium.
Harbinger: familiar form, revolutionary foundation.

About Harbinger

Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger’s best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.

Job Overview

As a Harbinger -Team Lead, you will be responsible for guiding a team toward achieving operational goals while fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment. You will serve as the primary point of contact for team members for your dedicated zone and provide the necessary support to ensure zonal goals are met.

What You’ll Do:

Team Leadership: Direct daily activities, provide clear goals (SQDC) and regular feedback to team members to ensure alignment with company objectives as communicated by the Supervisor/Manager.
Resource Allocation: Oversee zonal allocation, ensure you have proper people allocations in each work station as needed and escalate any gaps to the Supervisor.
Mentorship and Development: Support the Supervisor on Identifying training needs and provide coaching to support the professional growth and skill development of each team member.
Performance Monitoring: Track team performance against key metrics and implement strategies for continuous improvement.
Communication: Act as a liaison between the team and management, ensuring transparent communication regarding progress, challenges, and achievements of your allocated area.
Understand the product and production fundamentals (Takt, operator and equipment cycle time, Downtime tracking, escalation, safety and quality issue escalation protocol, waste elimination and continuous Improvement)
Meet your zonal objectives as set forth by Area leadership:
- Run 5 mins Start of shift huddle (output, goals, safety issues, 5S).
- Respond and Escalate issues per criticality to the supervisor immediately.
- Maintain the 5S-Safety at the highest standard in your zone and in the Battery area.

Who You Are:

High school diploma or higher.
2+ years of experience in a relevant field (Battery/EV preferred)
Proven leadership or prior team lead/supervisory experience (preferably 1+ years)
Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
Record of repeated strong performance and positive peer feedback.
Strong Expertise in 2 or more Battery zones: Preferred - Battery Zone 1 (Cell Placement/Cell adhesive application); additionally Zone Zone 2 (Battery Module: Lasering, Wire-bonding the cells), Zone 3(Foaming) and Pack Assembly. Working knowledge of all zones.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

California Pay Range

$31—$34 USD

Equal Opportunity

Harbinger is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Harbinger is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at [email protected].

Candidate Data Privacy

Harbinger may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Harbinger may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

Harbinger may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our HR, legal, and finance teams, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Harbinger affiliates; and (iii) Harbinger’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.

Harbinger may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.

Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services. Any unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles submitted in response to our job posting shall be considered the property of Harbinger and are not subject to payment of referral or placement fees if any such candidate is later hired by Harbinger unless you have a signed written agreement in place with us which covers the applicable job posting.

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