Manufacturing Engineer
Form Energy
full-time
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Location: Virginia, West Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Take ownership of calendering and drying operations to meet performance, reliability, and safety requirements.
- Define process and equipment specifications for calendering and drying systems to meet performance, quality, and safety targets.
- Partner with equipment suppliers and internal teams to support design reviews, Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), and commissioning activities.
- Oversee equipment builds and ensure production lines scale effectively and operate with world-class consistency.
- Own process documentation, operating parameters, and equipment standards to ensure consistency across shifts and lines.
- Monitor and improve process performance using data-driven methods, including capability studies and reliability analysis.
- Collaborate with maintenance and operations teams to implement preventive maintenance strategies and troubleshoot issues.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives to increase uptime, reduce variability, and enhance process safety.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering with a focus on equipment specification, qualification, or sustaining.
- Hands-on experience with web-based processes, calendering, drying, or other thermal/mechanical manufacturing operations.
- Demonstrated ability to work with equipment vendors on design reviews, FATs/SATs, and system commissioning.
- Strong foundation in equipment capability analysis, process control, and troubleshooting methods.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, with experience writing technical documentation and operating standards.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.
- Ability to work onsite from the listed work location (Weirton, WV).