Various positions | QuantumScape | CA, US
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- Prepare and process purchase requisitions and purchase orders
- Drive supplier selection decisions, routing spend to preferred suppliers and working with technical teams to identify and source items
- Generate regular reports to provide status updates and tracking of open orders
- Assist Sourcing and Supply Managers with supplier onboarding efforts, ensuring that accurate documentation (NDAs, COIs, Terms & Conditions) are in place and supplier information is up to date
- Work with warehouse team to monitor inventory levels and determine purchasing needs on a weekly basis
- Coordinate with suppliers to deliver orders on time while building and maintaining positive supplier relations
- Identify procurement process issues and drive continuous improvement efforts
- Drive design, development, and commissioning ramp of complex and custom high speed automated manufacturing equipment, including creation of equipment specifications.
- Tests and validates new designs and equipment.
- Lead the installation, modification, upgrade, and maintenance planning of manufacturing equipment.
- Creating equipment SOP’s and documentation supporting LOTO and preventative maintenance activities.
- Maintain current records on equipment manufacturers’ technical notices, upgrades, and safety issues.
- Establish spare parts list for inventory, research second source options to support equipment engineering requirements.
- Establish CIP (continuous improvement process), programs and solutions for increasing uptime and for equipment problems that affect the manufacturing process.
- Provide technical/engineering support to the equipment maintenance team for repairs and process organizations.
- Work with equipment vendors to ensure tool support is being provided during line down situations.
- Provide troubleshooting support for complex issues and address root cause analysis utilizing 8D and FMEA evaluations.
- Supports WBS and project management skills utilizing MS Office applications.
- Establish a TPM (total preventative maintenance) program for equipment.
- Executes daily, monthly, quarterly facilities & equipment inspections/maintenances
- Acts as a contact while on shift for any building issues (climate control, odors, smoke, spills, damage, emergencies, and repairs)
- Supervises contractor performance and works closely with outside vendors and contractors to ensure work is completed according to specifications
- May act as project coordinator for all size projects including large scale repair and new facility projects
- Solicits bids and quotes from vendors
- Monitors and replaces light bulbs in all assigned facilities, as needed
- Makes minor plumbing repairs, as necessary
- Coordinates and assists with departmental and employee moves
- Preforms basic electrical work and resolves when an electrician is required
- Performs maintenance duties as assigned by the facilities manager
- Carries out work orders in a timely manner per our computer maintenance management system
- Monitors the building automation system to ensure all facilities equipment is running without issues
- Works directly with EH&S team to ensure a safe workplace, manage fire life safety systems and hazardous waste programs
- Works with equipment maintenance team on projects regarding Facility and Manufacturing / R&D
- Drive design, development, and commissioning ramp of complex and custom high speed automated manufacturing equipment, including creation of equipment specifications.
- Tests and validates new designs and equipment.
- Lead the installation, modification, upgrade, and maintenance planning of manufacturing equipment.
- Creating equipment SOP’s and documentation supporting LOTO and preventative maintenance activities.
- Maintain current records on equipment manufacturers’ technical notices, upgrades, and safety issues.
- Establish spare parts list for inventory, research second source options to support equipment engineering requirements.
- Establish CIP (continuous improvement process), programs and solutions for increasing uptime and for equipment problems that affect the manufacturing process.
- Provide technical/engineering support to the equipment maintenance team for repairs and process organizations.
- Work with equipment vendors to ensure tool support is being provided during line down situations.
- Provide troubleshooting support for complex issues and address root cause analysis utilizing 8D and FMEA evaluations.
- Supports WBS and project management skills utilizing MS Office applications.
- Establish a TPM (total preventative maintenance) program for equipment.
- Analyze supplier risk assessments and draft risk mitigation options / recommendations for the company
- Conduct market research to assist in new supplier identification – both for long-term purchase needs and upcoming Request for Proposal (RFP) or Request for Quotation (RFQ) events
- Draft an updated contracting process and upload key documents to support contract lifecycle management
- Develop and implement procurement process improvements, coordinating with multiple internal teams to align on expectations, requirements and best practices
- Work on establishing a preferred supplier program, including the development of metrics to assess supplier performance and quality
- Assist the Procurement team with drafting and executing major RFPs and RFQs, including specifications and requirements gathering and pricing / supplier analysis and working in person with leaders to support these activities
Quantumscape is seeking a motivated Cell Production Intern for our Manufacturing team. In this summer time position you will be a part of the Quantumscape Intern cadre developing and producing new technology for high energy density batteries. The cell production intern will aid the cell manufacturing team by designing and testing new manufacturing jigs and processes to improve line yield and device performance. You will be exposed to best-in-class data analysis capabilities for troubleshooting and process improvement. You will work with the engineering and technician team in a class 1000 cleanroom. Responsibilities:
QuantumScape is seeking a motivated Quality Engineer Intern for our Quality Engineering team. You will be playing a vital role in ensuring that incoming raw material meets critical to quality specifications, non-compliant parts are identified and appropriately dispositioned by collaborating with internal stakeholders, provide feedback to vendors and track their performance as well as ensure excursions and/or variations are being addressed through 8D process.
QuantumScape is seeking a motivated Quality Engineer Intern for our Quality Engineering team. You will be playing a vital role in ensuring that clean/dry rooms are compliant with clean room compliance protocols and standards, contributing to particle study and providing short term and long term solutions in mitigation of particle accumulation in the clean room environments, ensuring that documentation are controlled through the document control process, monitoring critical to quality specifications and ensure excursions and/or variations are being addressed through 8D process.
We are seeking a talented and self-motivated engineering intern to join our Planning/Industrial Engineering team on-site at San Jose office. The selected candidate will work closely with our cross-functional teams to support various projects aimed at ramping up our cutting-edge battery production line. The candidate should be able to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with all levels of stakeholders.
- Work with engineers, process owners and technicians to develop and deploy facility equipment standards and procedures.
- Collaborate closely with the in-house engineers to troubleshoot equipment and perform root cause analysis for failures.
- Communicate progress to the larger team in regular updates and track project status and risk.
- Lead time-bound projects for the upgrade or optimization of mechanical systems.
Sr. Ceramics Scientist
- Develop ceramic printing and coating formulation and sintering processes for specialized ceramic materials onsite in QS labs
- Propose and invent new processing approaches and continuously improve existing ones
- Validate hypotheses by applying your knowledge of engineering statistics and design of experiment concepts to methodically plan and execute experiments and yield conclusive results
- Summarize and communicate your results to management with onsite interactions
- Develop and maintain drawings, operating procedures, and work instructions and provide training to junior engineers, technicians, and operators
- Transfer technology to in-house or 3rd-party functional groups, as needed
- Work in accordance with all safety procedures
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Cell Development
QuantumScape is seeking an experienced and highly motivated battery test engineer. You will work in our state-of-the art lab, developing new test methods and characterization techniques that probe performance and guide improvements to our solid-state battery fabrication processes.
Member of Technical Staff, Cell Development
QuantumScape is seeking a highly-motivated researcher to further improve the performance of our novel solid-state battery materials. You will learn how the technology works, develop new techniques for device fabrication and characterization, and work with the broader team to improve our materials and processing.
Sr. Training Development
- Strategic problem solver to perform complex analysis of the training needs of employees to develop training programs that enhance the user experience, knowledge, skills, and performance.
- Work closely with partner departments to identify and achieve individual department learning goals and objectives.
- Establish working relationships throughout the organization to develop department-specific curricula and maintain training plans and training matrices and develop department-specific certification programs
- Create and maintain department procedures and work instructions.
- Administrator for the systems and tools that the department owns. Administrator responsibilities include but are not limited to setting up user access, technical troubleshooting, system set-up and support as well as being the primary contact with vendors.
- Create and manage training metrics and reports.
- Create, provide and support classroom training as needed.
- Create and revise content using e-learning authoring tools.
- Create SCORM courses, job aids, guides, manuals, presentations, videos and exams.
- Ability to multi-task and handle several design projects at once.
- Stay abreast of development and innovations in the training and development industry to ensure training activities remain current and relevant.
- Support review of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) during change control process and create courses to support SOP training in the LMS.
- Drive continuous improvement through identifying and implementing Training Program and LMS improvement opportunities as well as through review of existing content. Provide SMEs with recommendations for improvement
- Support special projects related to the training program and/or the LMS.
- Provide regular updates to management on systems, processes, and projects.
Member of Technical Staff, Process Development
- Work in our state-of-the-art lab, developing and optimizing new processes for cell assembly
- Characterize physical and electrochemical properties of battery materials and devices using state-of-the-art analytical methods
- Collaborate with colleagues from multiple fields to ensure that process specifications and device performance goals are met
- Deliver high-quality technical reports to colleagues
LMS Specialist
- Learn and manage the learning management system.
- Grant and manage access and permissions to the system, help to troubleshoot technical issues, set up the system to support the business, and provide training to users in person
- Coordinate with people leaders to create and maintain training plans and training matrices.
- Coordinate with Operations and R&D leaders to create and maintain the training certification program.
- Partner with onboarding groups to develop a robust new hire training program.
- Assist with developing and maintaining training metrics and reports.
- Resolve inquiries and issues in a timely manner.
- Provide instructor led training as needed.
- Identify and implement improvement opportunities.
- Provide regular updates to management on systems, processes, and projects.
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Failure Analysis
Battery Engineer – Failure Analysis We are seeking a highly motivated and dynamic Battery Engineer to lead failure analysis efforts for our cutting-edge next-generation solid-state battery technology. In this pivotal role, you will unravel the intricacies of our innovative battery design, develop robust failure analysis methodologies, and play a critical role in the advancement of the next evolution of battery technology. As part of our team, you will contribute to identifying and addressing the most critical failure modes, thereby driving the continuous improvement of our battery systems.
Sr. HR Business Partner
We are seeking an experienced Senior HR Business Partner to join the People Experience team and help our company scale, our managers to lead, and our people to grow. In this role, you will work onsite in San Jose to partner closely with operation leaders to advise, drive strategy, and influence them on topics involving people strategy, engagement and retention, talent development and coaching, organizational design and development to enable employees to do their best work for the Company.
You will work with the People Experience team and act as the voice of the people to collectively identify needs and ensure successful deployment of new engagement and talent initiatives for an overall positive employee experience.
This is a work onsite position that requires the position to work onsite at one of the several company locations in San Jose, CA. Working onsite as an HRBP offers unparalleled visibility and accessibility to employees, fostering trust and open communication while enabling tailored HR solutions. Additionally, onsite presence facilitates seamless collaboration with colleagues, promoting cross-functional teamwork and driving collective success.
