Battery Engineer

Senior Battery Engineer - Plymouth MI

Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions to many of the world's top-recognized brands and companies, is actively seeking an experienced Battery Engineerto join our Transportation Technologies team in Plymouth, MI.

This is a fantastic opportunity to grow a versatile career in Battery safety and testing.

Intertek's Transportaion Technologies team offers Total Quality Assurance expertise, delivered consistently with precision, pace and passion, enables our customers to power ahead safely.

Our automotive, battery and energy storage, and related transportation industry testing and certification expertise is recognized by leading manufacturers worldwide for evaluating how their products and services meet and exceed quality, safety, sustainability and performance standards.

What are we looking for?

This position is responsible for performing testing and evaluation on a variety of products to the provisions of client-provided or other national, international or industry-specific performance and durability standards or U.S., Canadian and other International product safety standards; writing reports; and communicating with clients.

Salary & Benefits Information

In addition to competitive compensation packages, when working with Intertek you can expect benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k) with company match, generous vacation / sick time (PTO), tuition reimbursement and more.

What you'll do:


* Evaluate a variety of battery product designs and their compliance to applicable battery safety and performance standards


* Under the guidance of a more senior engineer, conduct on site evaluation of products to determine compliance with applicable standard(s).

To do this, Engineer must:
+ Read and determine applicability of national codes and standards (UL/IEC) clauses for the EUT (equipment under test) such as IEC 62133, UL1973 and others;
+ Read and understand client-provided or otherwise published performance or product safety standards;
+ Read and understand schematics and manufacturing instructions;
+ Validate the project scope and sample applicability;
+ Under scope of the project, identify and locate test instruments and equipment required for testing;
+ Follow established test plan;
+ Set up and operate EUT; perform and document simple repairs on EUT as needed;
+ Conduct thorough construction review, or sample inspection as needed; document results;
+ Perform testing of products in accordance with standards.

Core tests include, but are not limited to: Battery Cycling (Charge/Discharge), Vibration, Temperature/Humidity soak or cycle, durability cycling, Voltage and Current measurement, dielectric, pressure, abnormal and fault condition simulation.


* Set up and operate standard test equipment including, but not limited to: Battery Cyclers, Temperature/Humidity...