Skeleton's Engineering department is looking for a driven

Mechanical Engineering Team Lead

with the vision to match our ambition.

In this role, your main role would be to lead your team of Mechanical Engineers daily by coaching, supervising and motivating. You would provide technical expertise on design input, sharing ideas and reviewing technical solutions. You would have a good grasp of costs and resources. Our ultimate goal with Skeleton is to build a net zero future, and our role is to make sure the world is aware of how we can help save energy, cut fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, and enable the energy transition.

Your tasks in the net zero journey:

Day to day

• Being a first point of contact for the team.

• Ensuring that frameworks and processes are followed.

• Facilitating and taking part in cross functional collaboration.

• Supervising project progress and team's workload.

Team management

• Working closely with and coaching team members.

• Helping with hiring new best talent and onboarding.

• Budgeting and monitoring costs.

Planning

• Assigning tasks and projects to team members.

• Reviewing and challenging team's sprint plans and coaching.

Engineering

• Providing input and ideas to engineers on possible design solutions.

• Reviewing and providing feedback to engineers' designs.

Process and work methods improvement

• Improving and executing development processes.

• Observing bottlenecks and propose & implement improvements.

• Documentation of technical knowledge and improving competences.

Requirements

We don’t expect to master it all. At Skeleton, you’ll have the support of the team and we work together to achieve our goals. However, there are requirements you should be able to fulfill to succeed in this role:

• Bachelors'- or Masters' degree in Mechanical Engineering field.
• In-depth knowledge of development processes.
• Experience with quality management tools/methods (APQP, PPAP, FMEA, Significant characteristics etc.)
• Good problem solving and de-escalation skills.
• Managerial and delegation skills and experiences.
• High proficiency with Solidworks.
• High proficiency reading technical drawings.
• Ability to compose a budget for the team and monitor costs.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• High stress - and conflict tolerance.
• Detail- and goal oritented.
• Very good level of English, German language nice to have.

Additional cookie points for:

• Product Industrialization knowledge.
• Experience with product certification.
• Understanding basics of finances.
• Selection of material.
• Cost estimations.
• GD&T.
• Tolerancing.
• Scrum methology and JIRA.

Benefits

We're not just about energy storage. We're about redefining energy for a net zero future, and we'd love for you to be a part of our journey.

About Skeleton

Skeleton Technologies is a Global Cleantech 100 company and a technology leader in high-power energy storage for transportation, grid, automotive, and industrial applications.

For us, developing and producing the best energy storage solutions is a means to an end: helping companies to reduce CO2 emissions and save energy.

We work with some of the largest companies in the world from automotive and industrial OEMs to truck fleet operators and aerospace prime contractors. Our products decrease CO2 emissions and fuel consumption, improve power quality, and empower wider electrification of the biggest industries globally.

Our supercapacitor and SuperBattery energy storage technologies, based on patented curved graphene, represent the biggest technological advancement in the industry in the last 20 years and the use of this innovative material provides our products with an unparalleled advantage in power and energy density.

Skeleton Technologies Group is located in 6 different locations: its manufacturing in Großröhrsdorf, offices in Berlin & Leipzig, materials development in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, electrode production in Varkaus (Finland), and engineering in Tallinn, Estonia. In 2024, we will open the largest supercapacitor factory in the world in Markranstädt, Germany.