Job Description
Job Description
Sion Power, the global leader in the development of a new generation of high-energy, rechargeable lithium batteries for portable power is currently searching for a Coating Equipment Engineer to be based at its research and development facility in Tucson, Arizona. Sion's exciting new technology package yields a battery system with the highest theoretical gravimetric and volumetric energy densities of any battery and offers significant improvements in performance over current rechargeable batteries.
Position Summary
This position will support the coating work related to Sion's Licerion batteries by upgrading and maintaining the equipment and auxiliary processes. This will involve both improvement and maintenance of existing systems, and supporting other equipment projects and engineering teams related to the coating department.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Qualifications
Language Skills
Ability to speak and understand English in a manner that is sufficient for effective communication with supervisors, employees, beneficiaries and customers, based on the assumption that such individuals can only speak and understand English. This position also requires the ability to present information and data to large groups of people.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of the job, the employee will be required to regularly use a PC, telephone, fax machine, copy machine, lift objects, speak, hear, and write. The employee may need to work in a dry room (~-60 °ree;C Dew Point) for 6 or more hours a day at times. The employee may be required to handle and transport packaged chemicals. Working with potentially hazardous and / or toxic chemicals, with appropriate protective clothing and apparatus, though infrequent, is required. The employee should be able to lift and move 25 pounds and could be called upon to lift or move up to 50 pounds on occasion. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close and peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The candidate will be immersed in a fast-paced environment. This person must be able to adapt quickly, meet deadlines and goals, and interface with all levels of employees both internal and external to the company. While performing the duties of this job, the person will occasionally work near hazardous and / or toxic chemicals, energized electronic and manufacturing equipment.
Equipment Engineer • Tucson, AZ, US