ExxonMobil

Battery Anode Material Product Development Engineer

ExxonMobil$90K — $130K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.S. degree; M.S. or Ph.D. preferred in Polymer Science, Materials Science, Chemistry, or Chemical Engineering.
  • 5+ years of industry experience in battery anode material development.
  • Experience with battery cell manufacturing and testing is advantageous.
  • Knowledge of product design's impact on battery performance including material attributes.
  • Hands-on experience with milling, shaping, and characterization technologies for carbon powders.
  • Familiarity with production processes for graphite including milling and heat treatment operations.
  • Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

  • Identify new opportunities in battery anode material grades based on market and technical developments.
  • Lead product development workflows for lab and pilot-scale operations.
  • Implement new equipment and analytical capabilities as required for development needs.
  • Provide technical leadership in defining research priorities and ensuring quality assurance.
  • Oversee product interface among synthetic graphite development teams from lab through commercial production.
  • Specify product specifications and ensure suitability for battery assembly and testing.
  • Contribute to intellectual property development to enhance competitive edge.

Benefits

  • Automatic enrollment in Pension Plan at no personal cost, ensuring monthly retirement payments.
  • Savings Plan with a company match of up to 7% when employee contributes at least 6% of their salary.
  • Flexibility in work schedules with options like 'Flex your Day' and part-time arrangements.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage to support employee health.
  • Wellness resources through a Culture of Health program promoting overall wellbeing.
  • Confidential counseling support for employees and families via Employee Health Advisory Program at no charge.
  • Automatic enrollment in a Disability Plan offering income replacement during illness or injury.
Full Job Description
About us

At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living and a net-zero future. As one of the world's largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.

The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower-emissions technologies.

We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society's evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.

What role you will play in our team

Battery Anode Materials Engineer / Scientist / Product Developer for leading synthetic graphite grade development and delivering advantaged products with differentiated performance in lithium ion battery cells. The role will work closely with other functions (marketing, sales and innovation group) and will maintain continual open/working interfaces with Customer and Application Developers, Process Technologists and Researchers in the development of these materials. Scope of effort covers initial benchtop/laboratory scale work as well as pilot and commercial operations. Candidate will be responsible for product design & quality starting from ExxonMobil initial development and production and continuing to customer processing and application fit-for-use.

What you will do

  • Identify and implement new battery anode material grade opportunities by Incorporating market-back needs / concepts in combination with developing innovative technical approaches.
  • Drive product development workflows at lab and pilot scales for internal and customer testing needs. Scope includes prototypes, validation, and scale-up.
  • Identify/implement new equipment and analytical capabilities as required
  • Provide technical leadership to define product research needs and participate in quality assurance for research and research applications.
  • Lead product interface for synthetic graphite process development teams at lab, pilot unit and commercial scale.
  • Own product specs and processing / performance fit-for-use in battery assembly & testing
  • Continue to identify / implement technical capabilities to maintain competitive advantage
  • Actively contribute content to IP development


About you

Minimum Qualifications
  • B.S., preferably, M.S. or Ph.D. in Polymer Science, Materials Science, Chemistry, or Chemical Engineering.
  • 5+ years experience in industry focused battery anode material development and production
  • Experience with battery cell manufacture and testing a plus


Preferred Knowledge and Skills
  • Battery anode material product design - impacts of product attributes such as particle size, particle size distribution, surface area, shape, structure, impurities on battery performance
  • Battery anode material fabrication and characterization: hands-on experience with milling/shaping technology to prepare developmental samples as well as experience with conventional carbon powder characterization techniques (density, surface areas, SEM. ICP, XRD, etc) for both precursor cokes and subsequent graphite battery anode material
  • Familiarity with grinding/milling operations at scales ranging from lab to commercial and subsequent heat treatment steps necessary for the production of graphite
  • Managing multiple interfaces in development, ability to connect key factors across the value chain from coke to final lithium ion battery application performance and incorporate feedback into product design
  • Awareness of Li-ion battery components, chemistry, & testing
  • Effective at collaboration and networking: ability to influence without authority and leverage resources from multiple organizations
  • Results orientation with bias for action


Your benefits

An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.

We offer you:

  • Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
  • Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
  • Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as "Flex your Day", providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
  • Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
  • Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.
  • More information on our Company's benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com
  • Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.


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