As a Chemical Team Manager your job will be to...

• Manage the product engineering chemistry team.
• Supervise teammates to ensure developments programs execution.
• Resource workload management and topics prioritization when needed.
• Ensure EV cells chemistry materials and slurry formations design activities relevant with projects and company roadmap and objectives.
• Participate to department long term roadmap and orientations drafting.
• Plan and animate internal standards and technical referential creation.
• Run and plan OPEX and CAPEX budget for the team.

Main Missions:

• Hire, Manage and coach the product engineering chemistry seniors, engineers and technicians
• Structure the team to support multiples customer projects
• Draft and animate the improvement of internal standards, processes and methodologies implementations
• Contribute to the company roadmap
• Apply and transmit its expertise on Li-ion cell electrochemistry.
• Apply and transmit its expertise on Li-ion cell manufacturing at lab, pilot and industrial scale
• Propose new concepts and materials to improve EV cell at chemistry, relevant with company roadmap
• Build and test prototypes
• Apply agile technics to be able to answer quickly to various internal and external customers.
• Lead and manage internal and external projects, contracts, while collaborating with internal teams (R&D, Industrialization, Projects, Simulation, …).
• Lead and manage collaborations with suppliers, customers and strategic partners.
• Be aware of and analyses solutions from competitors.
• Be up to date to the state of the art on its topic of expertise.
• Participate to international meetings and contribute to the company fame.
• Support Intellectual Property monitoring and propose innovative patentable concepts.

Know How

• Management and team motivation
• Excellent understanding of the Li-ion accumulators technology
• Excellent understanding of current technological locks and limits
• Electrochemistry applied to battery
• Manufacturing processes of Li-ion cell
• Knowledge on various analytical methods

Experience

• 10 years’ experience in similar job at automotive or battery manufacturer
• 5+ years technical team management
• International experience (China, Japan, Korea, Germany, USA) in R&D and/or Production for Li-ion battery

Qualification

• PhD in Chemistry/Electrochemistry/Material Science
• Fluent in English

Key behaviour

• Leadership and team management skills
• Autonomous, Initiative, Motivated, Proactivity, team spirit, synthetic reporting
• Good communication and social skills
• Customer focused, result and performance motivated
• Organization and time-management skills 

Some extra skills which could make a difference

• Lab conception, materials synthesis/manufacturing
• Experienced in design or industrialization for mass production
• Failure modes analysis, problem solving methods (8D), statistics
• French, any other languages

Our Advantages and Perks: new premises, parking spaces reserved for carpoolers, possibility of recharging your electric car on reserved spaces in our parking lot.

Other perks and advantages include : Janitorial services, telecommuting, complementary retirement (subject to a salary threshold), osteopathy sessions, company restaurant, meal and also vegetables/fruits baskets delivery service.
You also benefit from access to our Sports & Culture association, sports subsidy, conferences, etc.
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