Process Engineer

The Volkswagen Group is one of the first and most successful international car manufacturers in China’s automobile industry and we have made individual mobility possible together with Chinese Partners. For over 40 years, the Volkswagen Group and its brands have always been pioneers of mobility in China.

Volkswagen Group China’s business scope includes the production, sales and services of vehicles and parts, such as engines and transmissions. The Group is represented by a diverse array of brands across all segments, including Volkswagen, Audi, ŠKODA, JETTA, Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini, Ducati, MAN and SCANIA.

As the automotive industry rapidly shifts towards the era of Intelligent Connected Vehicles (ICV) and autonomous driving, the Group is following a strong strategic plan to maintain its leading position in this attractive growth market. Therefore, Volkswagen Group is consistently powering forward its “Target picture 2030” and the consistent “In China for China” approach.

To date, about 50 million customers in China are driving cars from the Group brands – a customer base that is unparalleled by any other domestic or international automaker in the country. 

Process Engineer

Key Tasks:
• Responsible for formation process related work from R&D till industrialization
• Drawing review and optimization with R&D members in Germany and external partners
• Process flow building according to new battery design
• Support production at partner’s facilities, able to tackle formation process issues from R&D phase to industrialization
• Continuously improve the process yield and cell consistency
• Design experiment and summarize process validation data, prepare the reports, and propose feasible improvement plans
• Provide professional support for technical agreements of production line retrofit or ramping up
• Be able to prepare process document, such as CP PFMEA PFD
• As main interface between VW group and external partners, coordinate joint problem solving about process as well as know-how transfer
• Deep technical knowledge of battery technology, be able to correlate the impact of the problem on the front and back processes
 
Qualification and skills required for the position
• Bachelor degree or above in mechanics, chemical engineering, chemistry, material, electronics, automation, etc.
• 5+ years of prismatic formation experience at top battery company or top car company battery department etc.
• On-site experience with prismatic battery supplier is desired
• Hands on experience for trouble-shooting on-site processing problems for prismatic cell including processing refining and device revision or update, so on. like drying procedure optimization, plug welding problem, formation data analysis, film wrapping, etc
• Be able to network in Volkswagen Group, able to fast network in region China with different stakeholders/entities
• Experience with full product life cycle as from concept to series production
• Experience in Quality Systems (APQP/PPAP) processes is desired English: Good at reading and writing