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Position Summary The QA Engineer is responsible for supporting quality assurance activities at the Memphis electrolyte manufacturing site. This role ensures compliance with customer requirements, internal quality standards, and regulatory expectations, while supporting stable plant operation during the transition period and post-acquisition ramp-up phase.

The position plays a key role in customer quality response, process quality monitoring, documentation control, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

1. Production Quality Control
  • Support implementation and maintenance of plant quality systems
  • Monitor production quality performance and deviations
  • Review batch records and production documentation
  • Support investigation of nonconformities and process deviations
  • Ensure traceability of raw materials and finished products
2. Customer Quality Support
  • Support customer quality audits and documentation requests
  • Respond to customer complaints and quality inquiries
  • Participate in root cause investigations (RCA)
  • Support corrective and preventive actions (CAPA)
  • Maintain communication with customer quality teams when required
Especially important for:
  • battery manufacturers
  • automotive OEM-related customers
  • electrolyte qualification support
3. Quality System Management Support maintenance and implementation of:
  • ISO 9001
  • IATF 16949 (preferred)
  • internal QA procedures
  • document control systems
  • change management processes
4. Incoming / In-Process / Final Inspection

Coordinate and monitor

  • raw material quality verification
  • in-process quality checkpoints
  • final product inspection
  • laboratory test result review
Typical electrolyte-related parameters include:
  • moisture content
  • impurity levels
  • conductivity
  • composition accuracy
5. Audit Support

Support

  • internal audits
  • customer audits
  • supplier audits (if required)
Prepare:
  • quality reports
  • deviation summaries
  • corrective action tracking
6. Transition Support (Critical for First Year) During the first year after acquisition:
  • support transfer of quality documentation from previous operator
  • assist implementation of GEO quality standards
  • stabilize plant quality workflow
  • coordinate with global QA teams
Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in:
  • Chemistry
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Materials Science
  • Industrial Engineering
  • or related field
  • 3–7 years of experience in manufacturing quality engineering
  • Experience with structured quality systems such as:
  • ISO 9001
  • IATF 16949
  • or similar
  • Experience with root cause analysis tools:
  • 5 Why
  • Fishbone
  • CAPA
Preferred Qualifications

Strongly preferred

  • Experience in chemical manufacturing
  • Experience with liquid chemical products
  • Experience supporting automotive or battery customers
  • Experience in electrolyte or lithium-ion battery materials industry
Additional advantages:
  • SAP QM experience
  • statistical quality tools (SPC)
  • audit participation experience
Key Competencies The successful candidate should demonstrate:
  • strong problem-solving ability
  • hands-on factory support mindset
  • structured documentation capability
  • cross-functional communication skills
  • ability to work in a transition environment
  • ability to interact with international teams
Work Environment

This role requires

  • regular presence on the production floor
  • interaction with operations and laboratory teams
  • participation in customer communications when needed
  • flexibility during plant transition phase
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