Battery Lab User Facility Specialist

How to Apply

A cover letter and resume are required for consideration for this position; include the cover letter as the first page of your resume. It should specifically address your interest in this position and outline particular skills and experience directly related to this position.

Summary

At the University of Michigan's new Electric Vehicle Center (EVC), we educate, innovate, and engage to accelerate the future of electric mobility. As part of the EVC, the U-M Battery Lab works to create and maintain a state of the art, independent user facility with a flexibility of scale in production and characterization of batteries that will benefit the energy storage community as a whole.

The Battery Lab, a core research unit under the EVC, is a full-service battery cell fabrication and testing facility open to any academic or industry user. It was established in 2015 as the nation's first university-based pilot line, and today it's the only one located in the heart of the auto industry.

The lab is an IP-protected safe zone where researchers from around the globe can prototype, test, scale-up, and analyze batteries and the materials that go into them. It is currently 9,000 sq. feet of research space includes a pilot line for pouch and cylindrical cells, an R&D pouch cell line, coin cell fabrication, electrochemical cycling, abuse testing, and a full suite of material characterization tools. By the end of 2024, the U-M Battery Lab will be over 17,000 sq. feet of research space.

This position would be joining our highly trained technical staff as a pilot line operator and cell test engineer. It is anticipated that this position may transition from our north campus facility to the new Ellsworth facility once construction is completed and the candidate has been fully trained.

Who We Are

Michigan Engineers are world-class educators, researchers, students and staff who strive to build a people-first future. Michigan Engineering's mission is to provide scientific and technological leadership to the people of the world, develop intellectually curious and socially conscious minds, create collaborative solutions to societal problems, and promote an inclusive and innovative community of service for the common good.

Our vision, mission and values are supported by a people-first engineering framework that guides our work. As Michigan Engineers, we strive to apply excellent engineering fundamentals, integrated expertise and equity-centered values to reimagine what engineering can be, close critical gaps, and elevate all people. Information about our vision, mission and values can be found at: http://strategicvision.engin.umich.edu/