Senior Industrial Engineer

Number of employees

380

Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Posted on: 2022-12-13

Category: renewables

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Form Energy is developing a new class of cost-effective, multi-day energy storage systems that will enable a reliable and fully-renewable electric grid year-round. Our pioneering battery technology will entirely reshape the global electric system and give it new form.

Learn more about Form Energy at https://www.formenergy.com.  

We’re always looking for outstanding people to join our team. If you’re interested, please visit https://formenergy.com/careers/.

Are you ready to rise to the challenge of climate change with the team that will deliver? Form Energy is a U.S. technology and manufacturing company that is developing and commercializing pioneering energy storage technologies to enable the electric grid to run on 100% renewable energy, every day of the year.

Supported by leading investors such as Breakthrough Energy Ventures, ArcelorMittal, TPG Rise, MIT’s The Engine, and others, we share a common belief that low-cost, multi-day energy storage is the key to enable tomorrow’s zero carbon electric grid. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, we are deeply motivated and inspired to create a better world. We need talented, hardworking individuals who share our goal of tackling the challenge of climate change. Do you want to work with us today to build a better tomorrow? 

Role Description
We are looking for a highly driven Industrial Engineer to lead industrial and material flow design for our first-in-kind battery factory and beyond. This is an exciting opportunity to start from a blank slate and use first principles fundamentals to design the FormFactory as a fully integrated product with the ambition to enable the most advanced high volume battery manufacturing in the world. 

This opportunity is based out of the Greater Pittsburgh Area



Besides joining a community of people working to make the world better, Form Energy commits to you equitable compensation, stock options, and offers a generous benefits package to make sure you have the support you need to thrive.

We cover 100% of employee premiums and 80% of dependent premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance for full time employees. We offer a flexible Paid Time Off program and every employee, regardless of gender identity or expression, is eligible for 12 weeks of paid parental bonding leave. A full listing of our benefits is available on our careers page

At Form Energy, we are working toward a 100% renewable energy future for everyone in the world. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees and are seeking to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our revolutionary products. Form Energy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

What You'll Do:

  • Own the industrial and material flow analytics and optimization
  • Optimize flow, inline, Interline buffers/storage and PFEP
  • Measure, establish and optimize capacity specs/targets (OEE and cycle times)
  • Own analytics and modeling to develop flow paths and aisle sizing for products, raw materials, and work in progress
  • Develop material flow and layout metrics to drive factory efficiency with the cross-functional teams (manufacturing, operations…)
  • Allocate, optimize space for production lines and other supporting functions to maximize operational and people needs
  • Densify the factory, eliminating non-value add movement or processes
  • Distill many inputs into few: delivering world-class decision support for senior leaders and executives
  • What You'll Bring:

  • 5+ years of Industrial & Factory planning and optimization experience
  • Expertise in manufacturing, OEE, capacity planning, cycle time analysis, line balancing, buffer sizing
  • BS/MS in Industrial engineering or equivalent
  • Expertise in material flow design, layouts, warehousing capacity and related software
  • Experience doing the detailed analysis necessary to make data driven decisions on warehouse or production line design
  • Experience with complex data management tools is preferred (Python, SQL…)
  • Track record of excellence in current and prior roles, demonstrable with metrics or KPIs
  • Excellent communication skills: written, verbal, presentation, summarization, etc
  • Able to work under pressure while managing competing demands and tight deadlines
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