Contract Engagement: 6-12 Months Initial Contract
Location: Oxford (5 days per week, hybrid negotiable)
We are seeking an experienced Battery Electrochemistry Subject Matter Expert (SME) to provide specialist technical support across battery-cell testing, electrochemical data analysis and validation activities.
Key responsibilities:
- Demonstrable experience in battery-cell testing, electrochemical data interpretation, test-method validation, technical documentation, and stakeholder engagement.
- Provide electrochemistry subject matter expertise to our clients team on agreed battery-testing and data-analysis use cases.
- Review and document current working practices, analytical protocols, requirements, assumptions, limitations and risks.
- Support definition and validation of priority electrochemical use cases, including HPPC, RPT, dQ/dV, GITT, rate capability and storage testing where included in the agreed backlog.
- Review outputs against the teams-provided reference datasets, expected results or agreed tolerances, and document findings.
- Provide recommendations to the team on data interpretation, validation approach, test evidence and user workflows.
- Participate in agreed workshops, sprint ceremonies, demonstrations, user reviews and governance meetings.
- Maintain deliverables, decisions, risks, issues, actions and recommendations in our clients-approved repositories.
- Provide structured knowledge transfer and handover to nominated our clients personnel.
- Demonstrable experience in battery-cell testing.
- Strong knowledge of electrochemistry and electrochemical data interpretation.
- Experience in test-method validation.
- Experience with HPPC, RPT, dQ/dV, GITT, rate capability and storage testing.
- Strong technical documentation and reporting skills.
- Ability to review and interpret technical data and identify discrepancies.
- Experience providing technical recommendations and working with stakeholders.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to deliver technical knowledge transfer and handover.
- Resource Mobilisation Pack: Approved SME profile, availability, onboarding checklist and mobilisation plan.
- Current-State Assessment: Documented review of agreed use cases, available datasets, existing practices, stakeholders, dependencies, risks and gaps.
- Priority Use-Case Support: Documented requirements, analytical protocols, validation approaches, findings and recommendations for agreed priority use cases.
- Validation Evidence: Test evidence, review records, identified discrepancies, decisions and remediation recommendations.
- Documentation & Knowledge Transfer: Final technical pack, working guidance, decisions log, open-items register and knowledge-transfer sessions.
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