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Form Energy is hiring a Process Engineering Manager to lead the Electrode Assembly Operations team at their high-volume manufacturing facility in Weirton, WV. You will oversee operations engineering and technician teams responsible for cathode assembly production lines, including lamination, welding, gluing, and inspection processes.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own process engineering section's operating results across all assembly processes, holding the team accountable for line cadence, downtime, and throughput
- Manage and develop a team of process engineers and technicians, including hiring, coaching, and performance management
- Establish and track section-level metrics (OEE, yield, cycle time) and direct resources toward highest-impact bottlenecks
- Set methods and standards for evaluating floor-level solutions, ensuring fixes are safe, robust, and effective before scale-up
- Represent the section in cross-functional planning with engineering and manufacturing teams, resolving constraints affecting quality and throughput
- Build and prioritize a continuous improvement roadmap balancing waste reduction, ergonomics, and process reliability against production demands
- Act as primary escalation point between shop floor and systems engineering team, ensuring process and human-factors feedback shapes next-generation equipment design
Form Energy manufactures long-duration iron-air battery systems for grid-scale energy storage. The company has been recognized by TIME as a "Best Invention" and MIT Technology Review as a "Top Climate Tech Company To Watch." The Weirton facility is a 550,000-square-foot hub for high-volume battery production, located near Pittsburgh, PA. Relocation assistance is available.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Chemical, Industrial Engineering, or related technical discipline
- 7+ years of experience in manufacturing, production, or industrial operations, including demonstrated experience managing a team or section
- Proven ability to hire, develop, and manage the performance of process engineers or technicians, including staffing and resourcing decisions
- Deep familiarity with manufacturing metrics (OEE, downtime tracking) and practical, root-cause approach to solving section-level problems across diverse unit processes
- Working knowledge of assembly-line processes such as lamination, welding, gluing, or inspection, with judgment to set standards for technical solutions across a team
- Track record of establishing operational objectives and work plans, adjusting based on cost, schedule, and staffing tradeoffs
- Exceptional interpersonal and influencing skills, with experience representing function priorities to peer managers and design engineering leaders
- Pragmatic problem-solving, intellectual curiosity, and comfort operating with ambiguity as organization scales
