Npi Specialist, Electrode

Date: Jul 14, 2025
- Location: St. Thomas, CA
- Company: PowerCo Canada Inc.
- Level of Experience: Professionals
- Job Function: Other
- Job ID: 4013

**NPI Specialist, Electrode**:
**Our Story and Why We're Growing**

We are proud to announce the launch of Volkswagen Group’s largest cell factory, PowerCo, in St. Thomas. This is more than just a job - it’s a unique opportunity to shape the future of sustainable energy. Join us as we ramp up operations and help build a world-class company.

At PowerCo, we believe in fostering an environment where ambition meets collaboration, and where flexibility and creativity thrive. You'll be part of a diverse, talented team that is shaping the future of battery production. You’ll have the chance to advance your career while working alongside passionate colleagues who share a vision of making a lasting impact on the world.

Are you ready to be part of something exciting? Power up your career with us

**About the Role**

Reporting to the manager of NPI, The New Product Introduction (NPI) Specialist will play a key role transferring battery cells from development phase into mass production. As part of the Technology Department, NPI works as an interface unit to combine needs of the product with needs of the series manufacturing process. The NPI Specialist focusses on solving issues along the production process chain by working in cross-departmental teams with the goal to enable a stable and high-quality series production of battery cells for different customers.

This is a flex hybrid work structure, where employees can work both remotely and on-site at our St. Thomas location.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Serve as the main point of contact between different departments, including operations and quality, to ensure smooth communication and collaboration across teams.
- Responsible for creating and defining necessary schedules, ensuring that all related tasks are successfully completed according to established deadlines.
- Organize and manage task-force with teams from different departments, facilitating effective collaboration to achieve project goals.
- Ensure that intermediate products meet the necessary specifications by aligning the work and expectations across various departments involved in the production process.
- Identify potential risks and trade-offs in development processes, analyze their impact, and create strategies to mitigate them.
- Drive timely decision-making by engaging with key stakeholders and ensuring that decisions are made within the necessary timeframes.
- Conduct Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FACA) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to identify, evaluate, and address product or process failures.
- Assist in the process and design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to proactively identify potential points of failure and develop mitigation strategies.
- Prepare detailed analyses of process gaps and perform the necessary technical validations to ensure processes are optimized and meet standards.
- Coordinate and provide support for Design of Experiments (DoEs) and material sampling activities to ensure accurate data collection and analysis.
- Steer the release process for materials and components, ensuring that they meet all requirements and are ready for production use.
- Organize and oversee troubleshooting activities, addressing issues related to material changes or specification adjustments, and ensuring that problems are resolved promptly.
- Provide support to the manufacturing facility in order to achieve and maintain the target yield rates.
- Supervise the tasks mentioned above, as well as analyze the results, interpret the data, and present findings to relevant stakeholders to drive improvements.
- Make decisions regarding production deviations at specific step in the manufacturing process, ensuring that any deviations from the defined parameters are handled effectively within the scope of the project.

**What you bring to the Team**
- Master’s or bachelors degree in chemistry, material, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering or related field.
- More than 2 years of development experience in automotive cell manufacture with project been through mass production
- Knowledge of battery cell design and materials enable mass production
- Strong understanding of development associated cell manufacture process, equipment and quality control process.
- Able to multi-task and to determine and shift priorities.
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and make actionable recommendations.
- Effective communication skills with the ability to interact cross-functionally and present findings to stakeholders.
- Detail-oriented with a commitment to accuracy and quality.
- Occasional travel in Canada, as well as internationally (up to 40%)
- Able to maintain flexible work hours to account for time zone differences with Europe, and the ability to work overtime on occasion to meet ramp-up deadlines.

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