Senior Coatings Engineer

Description

Senior Coating Engineer
Permanent, Full Time

BRING IT!

Your excitement. Your knowledge. Your imagination. Your ambition.
Your vision for finding the solutions that will help make a better world.

Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation (AFCC) -- a joint venture between Daimler, Ford Motor Company and Ballard Power Systems -- is developing next-generation technology for zero-emission automobiles. Today, AFCC fuel cell technology powers more than 150 zero-emission vehicles and counting. Our work is about empowering the world to be sustainable; our workplace is about empowering our people to make that happen.

Based in Metro Vancouver, (Burnaby) we enjoy the best of living and working in this beautiful region while we work to protect it.

AFCC is actively seeking an enthusiastic Senior Engineer or Scientist to join the MEA and electrode engineering team to apply their expertise in the engineering of coatings to help develop current and next generation MEA designs.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and engineer wet layer coating and drying processes to fabricate world class MEA prototypes.
• Characterize coatings and develop design and process specifications.
• Work with MEA Design and Materials engineers to build relationships between ink structure, coating structure and fuel cell performance.
• Source and procure state-of-the-art ink mixing and coating equipment.
• Build transfer functions between small and large scale process equipment.
• Network with experts from industry and academia.               

Requirements:

• Relevant degree in science or engineering.
• 10+ yrs experience in process engineering of coatings that are used to build products.
• Expertise in selecting coating equipment and engineering of coating processes.
• Experience in how ink properties interacts with the coating process.
• Hands-on experience in research, engineering and manufacturing.
• Experience in overcoming technology barriers with innovation.
• Passion to solve problems hands on.
• Network within the ink and coating community.

The ideal candidate has industrial experience in large scale manufacturing.

Our talented team is driven to developing ground-breaking technology for zero-emission automotive power trains. We turn challenges into solutions in a team-focused, results-driven work environment where we take our creativity and vision far, to achieve excellence. This is the place to be for the zero-emission revolution—we will be able to tell the next generations, “We were there.”

To apply, please click the "Apply for this Position" button below.  

AFCC welcomes diversity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. We thank interested candidates, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.