Staff Industrial Engineer

Are you ready to build America’s energy future? Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company. We’re revolutionizing energy storage with cost-effective, multi-day technology designed to keep the electric grid secure and reliable, even during extended periods of stress. By strengthening the electric system and reimagining what’s possible, we’re giving clean energy a whole new form! 

In recent years, Form Energy has earned a number of accolades, including being named by TIME as a “Best Invention”, MIT Technology Review as a “Top Climate Tech Company To Watch”, and Fast Company as “One of the Next Big Things In Tech”. We are making rapid progress on our mission of delivering energy storage for a better world, and our team is growing just as rapidly to meet demand. We have signed contracts with leading electric utilities across the United States. Trial production of our iron-air batteries has already begun, and this year, production will take off to high volumes at our new factory in West Virginia. 

Working for Form Energy is more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something extraordinary. And now - right as we significantly scale up battery manufacturing -  might be the most exciting moment in the company’s history to join. We are assembling a team of highly talented and driven individuals across the country. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, our team is determined to deliver on our mission and transform the energy landscape for the better.

Feeling energized to make a meaningful impact on the world? Then keep reading - you’ve come to the right place.

Staff Industrial Engineer / Form Energy, Inc.:

Play an important role in first factory design layout, including manufacturing, material, and

people flow.

Specific duties include:

1. Design and optimize the Form Factory Plan of Record layouts, including manufacturing,

material, and people flow designs;

2. Leverage complex mechanical and industrial engineering concepts and methods to

develop material flow paths, layout metrics, aisle sizing for products, raw materials, and

works-in-progress, driving factory efficiency in collaboration with cross-functional teams;

3. Allocate and optimize space for production lines and other supporting functions to

maximize operational and people needs;

4. Orchestrate the stakeholders for space utilization through data-drive analysis;

5. Measure, establish, and optimize capacity specifications/targets to maximize material

flow efficiency, storage, inline and interline buffers/storage; densify the factory; and

eliminate non-value-add movement or processes; 

6. Provide critical contributions to our factory processes, making recommendations for

process changes to iteratively improve the factory; and

7. Utilize in-depth knowledge and understanding of mechanical and industrial engineering

to serve as a subject-matter expert and senior technical resource to the industrial

engineering team.

Position Requirements:

A Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or

a related field, plus 4 years of experience as an Industrial Engineer, Productivity Engineer, or

similar role.

Experience must include the following, which may have been gained concurrently:

1) 4 years of experience using AutoCad to design and optimize the layout of manufacturing

facilities, warehouses, or production lines;

2) 4 years of experience in material flow, capacity analysis, and related software, including

FlexSim Simulation or MS Viso;

3) 4 years of experience with Overall Equipment Effectiveness, capacity planning, cycle

time analysis, and line balancing with MOST and SQL;

4) 4 years of experience in industrial engineering analytics design in manufacturing facility,

warehousing, or similar environment using software, including Minitab.

Job site: 1725 Main St., Weirton, WV 26062. Full-time. Salary: $111,890 - $153,265.

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Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy’s culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that. Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package to ensure all employees have what they need to thrive while working here. 

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