Your tasks:

• Lead and coordinate system development activities
• Coordination of the collaborative design efforts through all stages, from concept ideas through prototyping, testing, iterative improvement and final implementation
• Ensuring cohesive and synergistic product design free of harmful interactions between its various parts and addressing all major known failure modes and critical vulnerabilities of the VRFB technology
• Serving as a final review and approval body for all engineering and design changes
• Maintaining the project design documentation repository on the server, enforcing revision control and file change restrictions.
• Responsible for compliance with safety and environmental regulations
• Reporting to superior and preparation of decision papers

Your profile:

• Min. 3 years of team lead and project management experience in R&D
• Degree in mechanical/electrical engineering or comparable experience
• Experienced in leading a design team in battery design (redox flow battery is a bonus)
• Experienced in reporting and presenting to management
• Process-oriented and structured thinking with pragmatic approach
• Skilled to work in international teams across different locations
• Good English skills in writing and speaking as precondition, preferred in combination with German skills

We are SCHMID

SCHMID masters processes that are needed in the most different industrial sectors and builds machines and automation systems perfectly tailored to the requirements. The company group with its headquarters in Freudenstadt (Germany) has more than 900 employees worldwide. With the development of new fields of application four business units have developed taking advantage of numerous synergy effects: Electronics, Photovoltaics, Energy Systems and Customer Service