HSAGP(Hyundai-SK America Green power) Energy LLC. is the temporary corporate name of the joint venture company between Hyundai Motor Group and SK on. The joint venture plans to invest $5 billion to build an EV battery cell plant in Bartow County, Georgia. Hyundai Motor Group and SK On will each hold a 50 percent stake in the joint venture. The new plant created by the two companies is expected to start manufacturing battery cells in the second half of 2025 with an annual production capacity of 35 GWh, enough to support the production of 300,000 EVs a year. The future Bartow County plant in northwest Georgia is strategically located near Hyundai Motor Group’s existing and planned U.S. facilities. Hyundai Motor Group broke ground last year on the new Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America in southeast Georgia to make future Hyundai, Genesis and Kia EVs. The new site also adds to SK On’s existing presence in Georgia. In 2022, SK started production of EV batteries at its SK Battery America site in Commerce, Georgia. SK Battery America, a $2.6 billion investment, has an annual capacity of about 22 GWh, enough to support the production of more than 200,000 EVs a year.
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Summary
Controls engineers for battery manufacturing are responsible for ensuring that plants create the best products possible in the most efficient manner. They are highly analytical and use these skills to examine and improve processes in order to increase productivity. At the same time, they are responsible for ensuring that all equipment is properly maintained. As they perform these functions, controls engineers must also be able to work with other departments and external parties to create and implement processes to increase the plant’s efficiency. This position will also need to interact with other teams and vendors to solve complex and/or urgent problems by identifying and evaluating alternatives or by providing needed information and advice. As working on 24/7 facility, this position may require on-call support on various circumstances. Candidate should be motivated problem solver that can provide creative solution approaches to your task with concern about effectiveness and quality that well based in the technology expertise and best
practices.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Working in a cooperative team environment with Maintenance team members on emergency repairs, implementing corrective actions to achieve production milestone
- Troubleshoot / devise effective solutions to address challenges in equipment including emergency repairs on production equipment to minimize the downtime
- Oversee the new or modified production equipment installation & setup
- Analyze the equipment PLC issues and develop the corrective actions
- Establish / perform preventive maintenance plan
- Manage the spare part inventory & tools including purchasing order & safety stock management
- Develop engineering solutions for continuous improvement in the area of uptime, safety, and quality.
- Report key maintenance activities/results/indicators on a daily or weekly basis
- Revise / create the work instruction for training & provide the training for team members
- Continuously improve production environment with 5S & 3R standard
- Must be familiar with use of IT systems related to production like MES and other data verification system
Requirements:
- Bachelors degree or above in engineering (mechanical, electrical or similar)
- 5+ years of experience with PLCs and HMIs in maintenance of high-volume manufacturing
- Prior professional experience programming, control network setup and commissioning
- Strong cause-effect analytical abilities to solve problems.
- Technical proficiency in the following software applications.
- PLCs (MELSEC Q series, R series)
- HMIs (GOT2000, GX works 2 & 3, GT designer)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Battery maintenance experiences are appreciated. Or similar equipment experiences to each of battery manufacturing process like electrode, assembly, formation are preferred
- Technical proficiency in the following software applications.
- Invertor, VFDs (Mitsubishi, SIEMENS_SIMATIC, Parker, Yaskawa , LS)
- Safety PLC (Pilz, Omron)
- Servo control (Mitsubishi, MOOG)
- Control network (CC-link, RS-485, Ethernet)
- Experience with vision inspection equipment
- Experience with factory automation system (AGV, Stacker crane, Overhead Hoist Transport and etc)
- Experience with the new battery production equipment installation & setup
