Join Panasonic Energy
Do you want to join a team that's changing the world? Do you have a strong background as a Skilled Machine Technician Level 1? Then we're looking for you! Put your skills to meaningful use, gain unique experience, and work with world-class team members with diverse backgrounds and expertise who share the same vision. Join us at Panasonic Energy, where you'll help push the limits of battery technology, enhancing performance and efficiency in sustainable transportation.
Job Summary:
The Skilled Machine Technician Level 1 (SMT 1) is responsible for operating automated high-speed lithium-ion battery production machines within clean-room environments. Responsibilities include machine maintenance, ensuring the cleanliness of work areas, and facilitating the safe and efficient production of high-quality batteries. Additionally, SMT-1 performs basic equipment cleaning and maintenance procedures.
Essential Duties:
- Initiate, operate, recover, and shut down machines
- Diagnose and troubleshoot machine errors following specified escalation procedures.
- Utilize hand tools and precision measuring instruments to perform basic maintenance and uphold quality control standards.
- Perform duties and responsibilities in strict adherence to safety policies and procedures.
- Maintain a clean and secure work area following the 6S principles (Sort, Shine, Set in Order, Standardize, Sustain, Safety).
- Understanding of department workflows and processes
- Ensure the prompt fulfillment of requests and the timely delivery of materials, supplies, and spare parts to the production floor.
- Provide assistance to Maintenance Technicians in executing basic preventative maintenance procedures.
- Monitor processes and conduct continuous image inspections and visual quality checks to ensure compliance with acceptance standards.
- Ability to execute work instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
- Complete end of day reporting and documentation as required.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including production, engineering, and maintenance, to identify and resolve quality issues in a timely manner.
- Report quality issues, concerns, or deviations from standards to Supervisors and Engineers in a timely manner.
- Maintain detailed inspection, quality issues, and deviation records as required.
- Ensure adherence to quality, general plant, and PECNA policies and procedures.
- Ensure area cleanliness and 6S standards are met.
- Ability to train others at same or lower level within functional area.
- Ability to work all scheduled shifts.
- Ability to meet the physical demands and the PPE requirements of the role.
- No authority to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, reward, or discipline other employees.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Requirements:
To ensure the health and safety in the workplace and for the protection of our employees', wearing PPE is mandatory including equipment such as a full Tyvek suit, safety shoes, gloves, safety glasses, face mask, and a full hazmat suit that includes a respirator. Respirator fit test will be required based on functional area.
MUST-HAVES:
- Required and/or Preferred Education: High school diploma, GED or 2 years of prior experience in functional area
- Essential Qualifications: Proficient in the English language, encompassing adeptness in reading, writing, and verbal communication. Ability to meet the physical demands and the PPE requirements of the role.
BENEFITS & PERKS WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU:
Panasonic Energy prioritizes total well-being and offers comprehensive benefits options to support physical, emotional, financial, social, and environmental health:
- Highly inclusive and class-leading healthcare options to include family planning, mental health, and pet insurance
- Employee assistance programs that support total well-being with complimentary session offered each and every month
- Company-matched and fully vested 401K retirement program that starts immediately from date of enrollment
- Annual bonus program, High5 employee recognition and awards platform, quarterly and annual employee recognition
- Simplified access to self-guided and representative-supported short and long-term financial wellness and retirement planning
- Educational Assistance & Reimbursement Program
- Inclusion programs and associated employee resource groups that promote representation and belonging
- Leadership, career, and mentorship development programs opportunities at all levels across the organization
- Employee events
- Collaborative and motivating culture routed in continuous personal and professional growth
WHERE YOU'LL BE:
For our onsite roles, Panasonic Energy is committed to fostering an ideal working environment that goes beyond the conventional. Join us at Panasonic Energy, where your onsite presence is valued, and we strive to make each moment count in your professional journey.
WHO WE ARE:
At Panasonic Energy, you'll do work that matters as we are dedicated to transforming the world through the acceleration of sustainable energy. By producing safe, high-quality lithium-ion batteries, you become part of a team that plays a crucial role in creating technologies that move us. Our journey began in 2017, and now, as the world's largest lithium-ion battery factory, we are expanding operations to De Soto, Kansas, providing you with the opportunity to experience career growth in more ways than one. As an innovative thinker, you'll thrive here, as we continually push the boundaries of lithium-ion battery technology and production capabilities to enhance efficiency and performance in EVs. Being part of Panasonic Energy means positively contributing to society, aligning with our commitment to building a better world through sustainable energy solutions. Join us and be part of a team that values your work, encourages innovation, and actively contributes to a positive societal impact.
WE TAKE OPPORTUNITY SERIOUSLY:
At Panasonic Energy, we are committed to a workplace that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. Fairness and Honesty have been part of our core values for more than 100 years and we are proud of our diverse culture as an equal opportunity employer. If you are actively looking or starting to explore new opportunities, submit your application!