Battery Technology Department Head – Faculty
| Company | Penn State |
|---|---|
| Location | State College, PA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelors’ degree in an engineering or science discipline
- 5 years’ related experience
- Knowledge, skills, and experience
- Demonstrated success leading a team of engineers/scientists
- Previous success with collaborations in a multi-disciplinary, team-oriented culture
- Proposal and technical writing skills
Responsibilities
- Lead a group of engineers, scientists, and support staff that are engaged in the development of high performance and innovative battery technologies for a variety of undersea vehicle and non-vehicle applications
- Lead the development of proposals and projects that further our knowledge of battery-based electrical energy storage
- Provide project updates to sponsors, present research findings at conferences, and publish in peer-reviewed journals
- Collaborate with engineers in other technical areas across ARL
- Plan, staff, and execute programs to ensure all departmental staff and faculty are appropriately and sufficiently tasked at all times
- Recruit, retain, and define performance expectations of department staff and faculty
- Identify professional development and training opportunities
- Mentor and encourage creativity in innovative technologies and research
- Evaluate professional growth through performance reviews
- Lead the team maintaining and improving ARL’s battery testing facilities
- Contribute to the design, development, implementation, and analysis of technical engineering products, systems, and subsystems
- Investigate and evaluate practical applicability of scientific theories and engineering principles to develop and improve various engineering systems; identify technical approach for solving problems and meeting customer/grantor needs
- Apply standard practices and techniques in specific situations, correlate data, recognize discrepancies in results and follow operations through a series of related detailed steps or processes
- Conduct experiments/tests in the laboratory/field to test, prove, or modify theoretical propositions on basis of research findings and experiences of others researching in related technical areas; may include taking measurements and recording observations, collecting, compiling, and processing data; may include planning/designing experiments or tests and supervising the execution thereof
- Initiate or contribute data/analysis/design for use in technical reports, documents, proposals, papers, or oral/written presentations
- Manage projects of varying size and scope, including technical elements, budget/schedule implications, and communication with sponsor(s)
- Interact in a collaborative manner with other team members, engineers, and scientists to accomplish organizational goals; provide innovative problem-solving approaches to enhance organizational capabilities
- Initiate or contribute to business development activities (i.e. white papers, proposals, etc.)
- May supervise the work of lower-level staff and undergraduate students
Preferred Qualifications
- Active government security clearance
- Demonstrating experience managing large, multi-year research efforts in a relevant area
- Successful technical publications in peer-reviewed journals or conference proceedings