Engineer – Battery Manufacturing Projects
Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
Position Type: Contract Opportunity
Pay Rate: $65.00–$70.00 per hour
Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision benefits begin on Day 1
Position Overview
- Reliance One, Inc. is hiring an experienced Engineer for one of our established manufacturing clients in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- This role will support the planning, installation, commissioning, and launch of advanced battery manufacturing equipment and production lines. The Engineer will collaborate with engineering teams, technicians, construction management, vendors, and general contractors to achieve critical project milestones.
- The ideal candidate has experience executing capital projects in a high-volume manufacturing environment, managing equipment installations, and supporting projects through the start of mass production.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with engineers, technicians, construction teams, vendors, and general contractors to achieve project milestones.
- Support equipment procurement, installation planning, installation execution, and commissioning.
- Coordinate pre-production trials and the launch of battery production lines.
- Follow advanced cleanliness and clean-room protocols required within battery manufacturing areas.
- Support manufacturing trials to validate equipment safety, quality, operational availability, and overall efficiency.
- Identify punch-list items and lead root-cause analysis and countermeasure activities.
- Track equipment issues and drive corrective actions through completion.
- Summarize key performance indicators and communicate project performance.
- Support mass-production handover and resolve production-related equipment issues.
- Coordinate with domestic and international cross-functional teams regarding open items, project schedules, and critical milestones.
- Create and maintain detailed project and equipment-installation schedules.
- Track and maintain budgets for assigned project areas.
- Complete required internal and external training.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field, or at least five years of equivalent professional experience.
- Experience preparing and executing capital projects, preferably from initial strategy and planning through the start of mass production.
- Project management experience involving capital investments greater than $500,000.
- Experience creating and maintaining detailed schedules for manufacturing equipment installations.
- Experience tracking project milestones, budgets, risks, and deliverables.
- High-volume manufacturing support and troubleshooting experience.
- Ability to read and interpret 2D drawings, including building, facility, and process-equipment drawings.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Microsoft Office applications.
- Strong communication, organization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25%.
- Ability to work weekends, holidays, and scheduled shutdown periods, including potential July and December shutdowns, based on project needs.
Preferred Experience
- Battery manufacturing or advanced manufacturing experience.
- Manufacturing equipment installation, commissioning, and production-launch experience.
- Experience working in clean-room or controlled manufacturing environments.
- Experience coordinating vendors, contractors, and international project teams.
Apply today to be considered for this Engineer opportunity in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Reliance One, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex—including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity—national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified individuals with disabilities.
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