Technical Specialist (Electrode Manufacturing)

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £34,980 to £44,263 with potential progression once in post to £46,974

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to September 2025

Closes: 15th October 2023

Job Summary

The Electrode Manufacturing Specialist will be responsible for manufacturing using the reel-to-reel coater on the Nextrode project and within the Energy Materials Group. This will involve using advanced mixing and coating techniques to help develop the next generation of battery electrode technology. Including the development of cutting-edge techniques and testing of new data collection methods for proof-of-concept work.

The role will be pivotal in providing high level coating and manufacturing capabilities withing the Energy Materials Group. The successful candidate will incorporate new technologies as they become available, or are developed by the team, which will require skills in continuously optimising, improving and implementing the new systems into electrode manufacture.

They will need to develop constructive working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stake holders and communicate well on the technical aspects of the work involved with to provide technical support for a wide range of complex research and development projects, from initial discussions with academic and research colleagues and representatives from industry, through the design, construction, and operation of testing rigs, to scale up and the collection and interpretation of data.

The successful candidate will supervise and mentor support staff and provide guidance to PhD and post-doctoral researchers with necessary information to ensure compliance with local standard operating procedures, and all Health and Safety policies.

The post holder will join the Energy Materials Group led by Professor Emma Kendrick.

People - Energy Materials Group - Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage - University of Birmingham

Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Educated to Degree level (or equivalent qualifications) or relevant technical qualifications and considerable relevant experience. Where no equivalent qualification is held significant practical relevant experience and expertise in a series of progressively more demanding roles will be required.
• Extensive experience running reel-to-reel coating line for electrode manufacture.
• Experience with various mixers for processing slurries.
• Extensive experience working with batteries, their safe handling, and storage.
• Please check the job description for full list of requirements

Desirable

• Basic fire safety training (including evacuation procedures) and chemical handling training are desirable.
• IOSH Managing Safely or similar H&S qualification (or willingness to undertake this) is highly desirable
• Experience running bench scale jet milling equipment

Informal enquires can be made to Tom Hutchinson (Technical Manager) (email: t.hutchinson@bham.ac.uk or +44 (0) 7814 938701 (mobile), or Professor Emma Kendrick (email: E.Kendrick@bham.ac.uk) or telephone +44 (0) 121 4146730

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