Employment Opportunities

Fuel Cell Engineer

Salary: Commensurate with experience
Location: Chicago, IL
Status: Full-time employee
Relevant Work Experience: 2 to 5 years
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree

Job Description
American Science and Technology Corporation (AST), a rapidly growing diverse business, is seeking a fuel cell engineer with design and testing experience to work on the development of various fuel cell products (e.g., sensors).

The fuel cell engineer will be a key member of AST’s technical, product development and marketing team. This individual will collaborate with principal investigators, vendors and suppliers to resolve technical issues or concerns related to the R&D processes of fuel cell products. In addition, the successful candidate will provide engineering support for the marketing team to develop strategies to enter emerging alternative energy markets.

If you are seeking an exciting and challenging opportunity we invite you to apply for the fuel cell engineer position.

Roles and Responsibilities
- Design R&D processes for fuel cell products (e.g., sensors)
- Design PEM or DMFC fuel cell stack, packaging and integration
- Perform PEM or DMFC fuel cell system analysis, simulation and integration
- Develop testing methodologies for fuel cell products
- Provide technical support to the marketing team
- Direct technician (s) to gather test data of various fuel cell products
- Collaborate with principal investigators and other professionals as required

Qualifications, Requirements and Skills
- Experienced in fuel cell testing and product applications development
- Experienced in developing and implementing fuel cell R&D best practices
- Experienced in building and testing multiple fuel cell stacks
- Project management skills related to fuel cell R&D processes
- Understand emerging fuel cell technologies (i.e., applied R&D, and micro fuel cells applications)
- Understand basic fuel cell R&D processes Understand basic low and high temperature PEM performance characteristics
- Understand lean manufacturing, six sigma and statistical process control techniques & tools
- Understand ISO 9001:2000 Quality Methodologies and Practices
- Demonstrated knowledge of the fuel cell industry (i.e., cells, best practices, competitive benchmarking, research & development, and manufacturing)
- Familiar with simulation and modeling software applications
- Ability to use engineering reference materials, textbooks, journals to locate the equations used to analyze problems using basic software applications (e.g. EXCEL)
- Write reports and present findings at meetings with internal and external customers
- Understand basic conductive and convective heat transfer concepts and related engineering formulae
- Ability to work with blowers, compressors, mass flow controllers, valves, pipe, fittings.
- Also, able to design fluid delivery systems for pressure drop, flow by integrating blower and system curves.
- Ability to research the appropriate thermodynamic formulae that apply application to: efficiency, ideal gas law, specific heat, work and energy
- Have hands-on plant experience in testing, manufacturing and/or quality assurance
- Ability to create CAD drawings using AutoCAD or Solid Works software application
- Education Level: Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or mechanical engineering technology. Advanced degree preferred
- Employment Requirements: US citizen or permanent residence (green card holder)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong team player skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Outlook, and Access database)

Contact information
Please send your resume for review and consideration to employment@amsnt.com.

Solar Cell Engineer

Salary: Commensurate with experience
Location: Chicago, IL
Status: Full-time employee
Relevant Work Experience: 2 to 5 years
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree

Job Description
American Science and Technology Corporation (AST), a rapidly growing diverse business, is seeking an engineer for Solar Cell design, manufacturing, and testing experience to work on the development of fixed and flexible solar cell products (fixed and flexible).

The solar cell engineer will be a key member of AST’s technical, product development and marketing team. This individual will collaborate with principal investigators, vendors and supplies to resolve technical issues or concerns related to the manufacturing processes of solar cell products (fixed and flexible). In addition, the successful candidate will provide engineering support for the sales and marketing team to develop strategies to enter emerging markets.

If you are seeking an exciting and challenging opportunity we invite you to apply for the solar cell engineer position.

Roles and Responsibilities
- Design manufacturing processes for solar cell products (fixed and flexible)
- Design facilities required for a pilot and full manufacturing solar cell line
- Develop testing methodologies for solar cell products (fixed and flexible)
- Provide technical support to the marketing team
- Direct technicians to gather production and test data of various solar cell products
- Collaborate with principal investigators and other professionals as required

Qualifications, Requirements and Skills
- Experienced in solar cell module testing and manufacturing
- Experienced in developing and implementing solar cell manufacturing best practices
- Project management skills related to solar cell manufacturing facility installation, start-up and production launch
- Understand emerging solar cell technologies (i.e., photovoltaic, thin films,, ink jet printing, nano-photonics, and nano-crystalline)
- Understand fixed and flexible solar cell manufacturing processes
- Understand basic photovoltaic and thin films performance characteristics
- Understand lean manufacturing, six sigma and statistical process control techniques & tools
- Understand ISO 9001:2000 Quality Methodologies and Practices
- Apply manufacturing best practices to improve product efficiencies
- Demonstrated knowledge of the solar industry (i.e., cells, modules, ink jet printing, thin –films research and development, amorphous silicon photovoltaic module manufacturing, and flexible plastic substrates)
- Familiar with simulation and modeling software applications
- Relevant Work Experience: 2 to 5 years
- Education Level: Bachelor’s degree in engineering/technology/physics/materials sciences. Advanced degree preferred.
- Employment Requirements: US citizen or permanent residence (green card holder)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong team player skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Outlook, and Access database)

Contact information
Please send your resume for review and consideration to employment@amsnt.com.

Chemist / Chemical Engineer

Salary: Commensurate with experience
Location: Superior, WI
Status: Full-time employee
Relevant Work Experience: 1 to 2 years
Education Level: Ph.D.

Job Description
American Science and Technology Corporation (AST), a rapidly growing diverse business, is looking for potential candidates with strong background in chemistry or chemical engineering. Expertise in catalyst design, analysis, and development are desired. This is a great opportunity for individuals to be involved with development and production of Renewable Fuels.

Roles and Responsibilities
Depending upon past experiences, these individuals will be responsible and involved in the following tasks:
- Initiating and conducting R&D project from inception to completion
- Setting up the laboratory
- Testing and evaluation of catalyst
- Technology deployment

Qualifications, Requirements and Skills
- Ph.D. in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering or related areas (or M.S. degree with 5 years related experience)
- Experience in the following areas related to Bio-Diesel and Bio-Fuel Technologies is desired:
     - Catalyst design, analysis and development
     - Organic Synthetic and Chemical Analytical Techniques
     - Product / Process Optimization
     - Pilot Plant Design and Fabrication
- Ability to solve problems creatively and meet aggressive timelines
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong team player, proactive and self-motivated
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Outlook, and Access database)

Contact information
Please send your resume for review and consideration to employment@amsnt.com.

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