Corporate Positions Archives

Director of Project Management – On Site, Westborough MA

Global

***Location: On-Site, Westborough MA***

Ascend Elements is a technology company commercializing the patented low-cost process for producing high quality cathode active materials from spent lithium-ion batteries. Founded with technology initially developed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and with facilities in Massachusetts, Michigan and Georgia, we have built strong relationships throughout the electric vehicle supply chain. We are expanding out project and program management team to execute our plans for rapid growth in 2024 and beyond including our first cathode materials production facility in Kentucky.

The Director of the Program Management Office (PMO) reports to the CFO/COO. The Dir of the PMO is responsible for planning and overseeing major corporate projects that include R&D project teams with the vehicle OEMs, lithium-ion battery manufacturers, and battery active material producers. In addition, the role supports global strategy and business development activities.

Responsibilities:

Design and implement a corporate stage-gate process for the corporate PMO.

Oversee projects deliverables of direct reports to ensure outcomes consistent with expectations.

Develop and maintain detailed project plans, project charters with scopes and objectives to track progress and oversee all institutionalization other critical project management tools.

Push for critical focus on budget, scope, schedule, and critical paths within the PMO and Company.

Prepare and maintain reporting tools to communicate project performance (e.g., weekly scorecard)

Perform risk assessments and management to minimize project threats and optimize project opportunities.

Coordinate internal resources and third parties for the execution of joint-development projects.

Oversee PMO group of 5+ people with projects over $1bn.

PMO tools experience – Project Charters, Schedule Budgets

Define and update project RASIC charts.

Cross-functional focus on accomplishing project goals on time within budget and scope.

Seamless handoffs with focus on the critical path through proactive project plan monitoring, risk management, and cross-functional management of project issues with timely escalation to leadership as required.

Use strong facilitation skills to lead regular project team meetings and apply consistent best practice for meeting agendas, actions, minutes, and other meeting documentation.

Lead options planning, generate recommendations, alternatives, and tradeoffs to strengthen decision-making and optimize the project strategy.

Establish and maintain relationships with internal and third parties/vendors/clients.

Align team activities through tracking of meeting minutes, action items, etc.

Ensure resource availability and allocation across all functions required.

Monitor and track project progress.

Manage change requests and negotiate new schedules and budget impact.

Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications and experience:

BA/BS or higher degree in Chemistry, Materials Science, or Chemical, Mechanical, or applicable Engineering field

Minimum of 10 (Ten) years program management experience in an automotive or chemicals industry.

Experience with APQP is required.

10 years proven working experience in project management; PMP certification preferred.

10 years’ experience building and maintaining project plans, budget and resource forecasts, and project management documentation (key assumptions, risks, etc.).

Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and ability multitask and run multiple projects at the same time.

Proved meeting leadership and interpersonal skills.

Excellent communication skills – written, verbal, and presentation skills required.

Computer proficiency, including spreadsheets and presentations; experience with Microsoft Project is highly desirable.

Physical and Environmental Requirements:
- Capable of wearing task specific personal protective equipment including dust mask, respirator, safety shoes, gloves, and safety glasses/face shield
- Capable of meeting OSHA standards for manual lifting guidelines: < 50lbs
- While performing the duties of this job, it is required to stand, walk, and use hands to operate objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands or arms; climb, balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch when necessary for job activity.

The employee is committed to and must support the EHS management process to obtain the ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certification as well as participate in system standards and practices in its compliance and commitment to policies, objectives, operational controls, documentation, system guidelines, and others that the organization subscribes to as mandatory.

Will participate in all EHS aspects, including reporting hazards, incidents, and injury/illness without fear of reprisal.

Must attend an Environment, Health, and Safety Orientation program appropriate to their work environment.

The employee must follow 6S step-by-step methodology to maintain orderly workspaces and resources thereby enhancing productivity and safety.

Travel up to 50% may be required.

SAP Business Analyst-Supply Chain EWM

Global

Ascend Elements is revolutionizing the production of lithium-ion battery materials by establishing a clean and sustainable supply chain using recycled feedstock. Its patented Hydro-to-Cathode™ technology directly synthesizes new cathode materials from spent lithium-ion cells more efficiently than traditional methods, resulting in reduced cost, improved performance, and lowered GHG emissions. The results are lower cost, better performance batteries with fewer discarded in landfill, a cleaner manufacturing process, and a truly sustainable closed-loop circular battery economy. Ascend Elements is taking the lithium-ion battery industry to a higher level.

We are currently hiring an SAP Business Analyst focused on Supply Chain and Extended Warehouse Management processes! In this role you will be responsible for working directly with business owners to develop an understanding of current requirements and future business needs for managing their function areas. This includes eliciting, analyzing, and evaluating current business practices, workflows and developing strategies to identify technology solutions needed to streamline and optimize business performance that positively impacts business ROI. The Business Analyst will act as the critical bridge between business leaders and users – and implement and support the systems that provide the capabilities that will support lean and efficient operations and provide leadership with the visibility to effectively manage and make proper business decisions.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Implements capabilities to manage warehouse and materials management business processes, including establishment & management of existing and new facilities, establishment and management of warehouse structure, master data, receipts of purchased and transferred materials, resource management, inbound processing, outbound processing, warehouse tasks, use of handling units, quality management integration, delivery and shipments to customers and transfers to other facilities, and physical inventory – all within a mixed mode, batch managed manufacturing context (Discrete & Process).

Collaborates with Information Technology and Operational Technology groups in selecting, implementing, and supporting supply chain related hardware such as scanners, barcode label printers, document printers required to support the overall materials management design.

Implements and supports transportation management solutions to optimize transportation planning, load consolidation and carrier selection – ensuring a seamless flow of goods from warehouse to transportation.

Provide reporting and analytics to provide visibility and KPIs around core inventory management, order processing, warehouse task management and resource management to support data-driven decision making.

Supports and participates in multiple projects to translate business needs to design, configure, document, and test software application solutions across multiple functional groups, focused primarily on SAP applications.

Provides support for implemented solutions including post go live support, training, and full regression testing of solutions in support of upgrades.

Understands SAP best practice business processes and uses the knowledge to develop consistent, implementable, and efficient business processes for the user base.

Partners with business leadership/owners to Identify, create, and facilitate process improvements and possible opportunities for automation by conducting business and systems analysis and design at a complex level, focusing on quality improvement and data reliability.

Work collaboratively with implementation partner functional and technical resources to ensure full understanding of implemented capabilities, trade-offs made, and justification for the choices made in implementation.

Document system configuration.

Assists in the design, development and deployment of user access and enterprise system security profiles.

Facilitate development and delivery of training and training materials.

Education and Other Requirements:

Bachelor in MIS or Business in the related business area discipline or equivalent experience.

5+ years’ experience as an SAP ERP Business Analyst, Implementation Consultant or similar discipline.

Experience with SAP S/4HANA, S/4HANA Cloud, Embedded EWM, SAP Transportation Management, SAP Analytics Cloud and the broader SAP portfolio of supply chain-focused applications.

Experience in several full lifecycle enterprise implementations.

Strong oral and written communication & presentation skills; specifically, with end-users, internal and external technical individuals, and leadership teams.

Experience troubleshooting issues, requirements gathering and solution design for enhancement requests, as well as implementing the solution via configuration, etc.

This is a remote opportunity with 25% travel to various production sites. Travel may increase for limited periods during go-live/post-go-live at our plants and warehouses.

APPLY TODAY!

Ascend Elements is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Senior Environmental Health Safety Coordinator

Covington, Covington, GA

Ascend Elements is a fast-growing organization that is revolutionizing the production of lithium-ion battery materials for electric vehicles. Recognized as a climate technology leader, the company elevates the value of recycled elements and engineers’ sustainable battery materials to support the global clean-energy transition. The company’s patented Hydro-to-Cathode™ direct precursor synthesis technology produces new, sustainable cathode materials from spent lithium-ion batteries more efficiently than traditional methods, resulting in improved performance and lower carbon emissions. Ascend Elements is taking sustainability in the lithium-ion battery industry to a higher level.

Job Overview:

The Senior Environmental, Heath, and Safety (EHS) Coordinator will be responsible for providing full time support to the operations teams to maintain compliance with applicable EHS company policies and regulatory requirements at our Covington, Georgia facility. The Covington facility is an industrial and chemical heavy manufacturing facility that produces materials for battery manufacturers. This individual will support the current EHS team in the development and coordination of training programs, assist with the management of chemicals/raw materials and wastes, and establish and promote a safe, accident free, and healthy workplace,.

Duties / Responsibilities:

· Lead chemical process and risk management

· Support air, water, wastewater, and hazardous waste permitting and compliance.

· Maintain and monitor environmental, health, and safety systems.

· Support compliance with all federal, state, and local EH&S regulations.

· Provide support regarding routine environmental compliance sampling/reporting requirements (e.g., stormwater, air, wastewater)

· Promote a culture of continuous improvement and safe workplace habits.

· Assist with coordination of Safety Committee Meetings, lead meetings when needed.

· Develop and update safety standards, instructions, codes, and formalize them into company documented practices, as required.

· Maintain facility specific EHS procedures for safe work practices and equipment operation.

· Review risk assessment and environmental impacts and assist departments in establishing improvement plans

· Verify proper safety protocols are in place and being followed.

· Create and facilitate safety and hazard training courses.

· Monitor the workforce for unsafe behaviors and coach employees on correct behaviors.

· Perform Root Cause Analysis on incidents and near misses.

· Facilitate emergency response drills and provide leadership during an emergency

· Be committed to and support the EHS management process to obtain ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certifications.

· Attend an Environment, Health, and Safety Orientation program appropriate to their work environment.

· Follow 6S step-by-step methodology to maintain orderly workspaces and resources thereby enhancing productivity and safety.

Required Skills / Abilities:

· Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of EHS experience in a relevant science and engineering field

· Have extensive chemical manufacturing knowledge and experience

· Process Safety Management (PSM) experience.

· OSHA 511 / OSHA 10 or 30 preferred

· 40-hour HAZWOPER training preferred

· Able to work in a fast-paced environment

· Experience implementing EHS systems

· Experience with process safety, chemical safety, audits and inspections, and risk management

· Ability to function in a fast-paced environment in a growing company

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills

· Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail

· Knowledge of EHS, OSHA, RCRA, GA EPD, and shipping laws and regulations

· Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software

· Ability to speak and write English

· Capable of wearing task specific personal protective equipment which may include dust mask, air purifying respirator (i.e., half and/or full faced), safety shoes, gloves, safety glasses, and ear protection.

· Capable of meeting OSHA standards for manual lifting guidelines: < 50lbs

· While performing the duties of this job it is required to stand, walk, and use hands to operate objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands or arms; climb, balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch when necessary for job activity.

· Ability to stand and/or walk for extended periods.

· Ability to work in a variety of weather conditions and temperatures.

APPLY TODAY!

Senior Manager, Learning and Development

Westborough, Westborough, MA

We’re hiring a Senior Manager, Learning and Development in our Westborough, MA headquarters who will develop programs to build human capital potential and a strong employee development culture. This candidate will direct the design, planning, and implementation of corporate training programs aligned with the objectives and strategy of the company. Collaborates with functional management teams to assess ongoing and future training and development needs as well as effectiveness of established programs. Facilitates the development of training programs and identify areas for improvement. Develops a program delivery schedule that provides training as needed, ongoing and/or ad hoc. Provides engaging communications about program information to encourage participation and highlight the value and benefits of training. Approves new training techniques and suggests enhancements to existing training programs. Oversees and establishes relationships with vendors to provide additional outside training programs. Manages and develops training coordinators and or SME professionals. Ensures a robust Learning Management System is utilized and managed for maintaining current training needs, reporting and compliance.

Areas of training needs include but are not limited to Regulatory, Environment & Compliance, Leadership skills and general HR related topics. Oversite and selection of Instructor-Led Training, Organizational Development (OD), Training Delivery, Training Management, Training Needs Analysis, Training Program Administration, Training Program Development, Vendor Management, Design Training Materials and Training & eLearning Software.

DUTIES AND RESPONSABILITIES:

In coordination with functional leadership, map out annual training plans for all employees

Manages training programs (outsourced and/or in-house)

Ensures ongoing review of organization-wide training needs assessment and identifies skills or knowledge gaps. Creates viable plans to improve the training needs.

Leads the assessment of instructional effectiveness and determines the impact of training on employee skills and KPI’s.

Ensures curriculum database and training records are up to date.

Identifies problems and opportunities such as operational changes or industry developments that training could improve.

Selects and manages LMS vendors third-party training service providers.

Prepares and implements training budget and ensures that training milestones and goals are met while adhering to approved training budget.

Develops and maintains organizational communications such as intranet bulletin boards and newsletters to ensure employees have knowledge of training and development events and resources.

Conducts follow-up studies of all completed training to evaluate and measure results.

Modifies programs as needed.

Exemplifies the desired culture and philosophies of the organization.

Works effectively as a team member with other members of management and the HR staff.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

Experience in leading the function of business’s learning and development programs with specific experience in Industrial Materials manufacturing.

Exceptional ability to move from conceptual needs to applicable training and development programs.

Creates business case presentations for operational improvement through learning and development deliverables.

Training Program Administration

Organizational needs assessment pertaining to skill development.

Ability to function in a demanding environment.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills including presentation.

Budget management

Vendor selection

Knowledge of LMS and HR systems

Thorough understanding of training processes.

Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.

Adept with a variety of multimedia training platforms and methods.

Knowledge of training methodologies and e-learning platforms

Bachelor’s degree in L&D, Human Resources Management

7-10 years’ experience designing and implementing employee development programs.

Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) credential preferred.

Ability to travel to other AE sites up to 25%.

APPLY TODAY!

Environmental Health and Safety Coordinator

Westborough, Westborough, MA

We are currently adding an Environmental, Heath, and Safety (EHS) Coordinator to our team! This role will be responsible for providing full time EHS support to our Westborough R&D and Operations teams in compliance with applicable policy and regulatory requirements. The individual in this position will support the development and coordination of training programs to establish and promote the maintenance of a safe, accident free, and healthy workplace.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Assist all teams’ managers/supervisors with accident response.

Assist EHS manager with root cause analysis and investigations.

Ensure team members have access to and use appropriate safety and environmental supplies and equipment, including personal protective equipment (PPE).

Ensure that contractor personnel working on the property are in compliance with company EHS policies and safety requirements.

Maintain facility specific EHS procedures for safe work practices and equipment operation.

Assist EHS Manager with oversee, perform, and assist with other internal and external audits or inspections.

Attend shift safety meetings and participate in presentations.

Assist EHS Engineer with daily Hazardous and Non-Hazardous waste inspections and inventory.

Assist in managing environmental and safety documents/permits on site.

Education and other requirements:

BS degree in the Sciences and/or a degree in an EHS related field

Preferred: 3-5 years of facilities safety including Hazard Communication, SDS compliance, chemical management

Be proficient in Microsoft Office applications.

Must be able to wear a respirator and other appropriate PPE equipment.

Must be able to lift 50 lbs.

Have some knowledge of safety and environmental regulations.

Preferred: RCRA, DOT, HAZWOPER (24-hour minimum), First Aid/CPR/AED.

APPLY TODAY!

Information Systems Security Analyst

Hopkinsville, Hopkinsville, KY

Ascend Elements is a fast-growing organization that is revolutionizing the production of lithium-ion battery materials for electric vehicles. Recognized as a climate technology leader, the company elevates the value of recycled elements and engineers’ sustainable battery materials to support the global clean-energy transition. The company’s patented Hydro-to-Cathode™ direct precursor synthesis technology produces new, sustainable cathode materials from spent lithium-ion batteries more efficiently than traditional methods, resulting in improved performance and lower carbon emissions. Ascend Elements is taking sustainability in the lithium-ion battery industry to a higher level.

We’re hiring a Information Systems Security Analyst who will manage and enforce policies and procedures that protect our organization’s computing infrastructure from all forms of security breaches. You will be responsible for identifying vulnerabilities and working with our IT department to resolve them, ensuring that our network and data remain secure. To be successful as an information security administrator, you should have expert analytical skills and in-depth knowledge of best practices to prevent a wide range of security threats. Top candidates will also be excellent communicators, able to train and educate our staff in various information security topics. This position will report to the IT Team Lead.

Location – this is an on-site position in Westborough MA, Hopkinsville KY preferably or Covington GA.

Responsibilities:

Identifying vulnerabilities in our current network and cloud infrastructure.

Managing, continually developing, and implementing a comprehensive plan to secure our computing network and systems.

Monitoring network usage to ensure compliance with security policies.

Keeping up to date with developments in IT security standards and threats.

Collaborating with management and the IT department to improve and enforce better security.

Documenting any security breaches and assessing their damage.

Educating colleagues about security software and best practices for information security.

Managing and implementing Office 365 Defender policies, and Entra group policies.

Maintaining, configuring, and monitoring single sign-on with Entra and 3rd party software.

Other local site duties as assigned.

Requirements:

Degree in computer science or a technology-related field.

3 years of hands-on experience

Professional information security certification.

Experience in an information security role.

Solid knowledge of various information security frameworks.

Solid knowledge of security settings. Office 365 defender

Knowledge of MS Entra and security features.

Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

Ability to educate a non-technical audience about various security measures.

Effective verbal and written communication skills.

Plus, to have SAP security and access control knowledge.

This is a fully on-site position.

APPLY TODAY!

Future opportunities within Corporate

Westborough, Westborough, MA

Thank you for your interest in Ascend Elements. We are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our team. If you did not see a position that fits what you are looking for, submit your resume for consideration for future opportunities at one of our 4 locations.