Document Control Specialist

The Asahi Kasei Group operates with a commitment of creating for tomorrow.  Our business sectors, Material, Homes, and Health Care, contribute to the development of society by anticipating the changing needs of those around the world. We look for candidates that offer a fresh perspective and a variety of skills to help us achieve our commitment.

We are currently seeking applications to fill the following job opening at Celgard where we develop and manufacture membrane battery separators that are critical components used in lithium-ion batteries for electric drive vehicles (EDVs) and energy storage systems (ESS).

Company:

Celgard, LLC

Job Description:

Document Control Specialist

Celgard – Charlotte, NC

For more than 50 years, Celgard has been a proven global leader in the development and production of high-performance membrane technology.  Our products are used in a broad range of energy storage and other barrier-type applications, including lithium-ion batteries, lithium primary and other specialty battery solutions, technical textiles such as waterproof breathable apparel and medical personal protective equipment (PPE) and other specialty applications.  Headquartered in the United States, we operate manufacturing facilities in the USA and China and have sales and technical service staff located strategically throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. 

Celgard is part of Polypore International, a leading global high technology company specializing in microporous membranes. Polypore brings advanced development and manufacturing know-how as well as unique problem-solving capabilities to customers' lithium-ion and lead-acid battery development teams. Polypore is an Asahi Kasei Group company, which is a diversified group of companies led by holding company Asahi Kasei Corp., with operations in the material, homes, and health care business sectors.  We are creating for tomorrow!

We are seeking an Document Control Specialist to be a part of the Quality organization. This position is onsite at Charlotte or Concord,  Monday-Friday normal business hours.  

This position directly reports to the Quality Director currently but could report to the Quality systems engineer or quality manager in a future org structure.  

• Sincerity – Being sincere with everyone
• Challenge – Bolding taking challenges, continually seeking change
• Creativity – Creating new value through unity and synergy

• Manage the document control system.
• Ensure document formatting is consistent with internal documentation.
• Ensures documents meet ISO/IATF requirements.
• Updates/modifies responsible PPR’s for document ownership and document approval workflows
• Completes document audits on the Concord and Charlotte plant floors.
• Training new hires on document control procedures.
• Facilitate reviews, approvals, and support implementation of corp. and shared documents.

Education Background:

• High School Diploma or equivalent is required.
• 2 years of relevant experience
• Preferred candidate would have knowledge with document control systems, auditing, approval workflows, and ISO/IATF requirements for manufacturing.

Knowledge & Experience: 

• Responsible for organizing, storing, and retrieving documents, both physical and hard copies as needed.
• Ensuring documents follow established workflows, including approval processes and distribution.
• Verifying documents are accurate, complete, and comply with IATF/ISO requirements.  
• Maintaining documents based on internal company policies and legal requirements.
• Training colleagues on document control procedures and providing support for document-related tasks. 
• Initiating and tracking changes to all documents at 3 manufacturing locations (Shanghai, Concord, Charlotte) 
• Maintain record retention requirements and ensuring we meet those.
• Lead meetings on record retention requirements and help manage inventory of those requirements (example production retain reviews)
• Implementation of any new document control system that gets selected to drive improvements.

Key Attributes:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate effectively to diverse audiences across all levels of the organization is required.
• Must be organized and detail oriented.
• Must be open-minded, able to adapt and accustomed to working across cultures and departments.

• Must be self-motivated and have a positive attitude.
• Must be able to work on a high performing team creating an environment where open and honest communication is the norm
• Must be willing to have some flexibility to support audits from customers and ISO/IATF certification companies. This could mean traveling between Charlotte and Concord plant to support those audits.
• Must have a continuous improvement mindset as we continue to find better ways to improve our document control system.
• Must be comfortable communicating with persons of all levels of leadership. 

Travel:

• Must be able and willing to travel between Charlotte and Concord plant to support audits as needed.

This position is in an office setting that requires you to be able to use a computer for 90% of your day.

Celgard manufacturing sites are IATF 16949 and ISO 9001 certified.

Charlotte, NC, known as the Queen City, is a thriving metropolitan area of over 2.6 million people across 15 counties and is situated just north of the South Carolina border, within a weekend drive to the mountains and the beach.  It is comprised of diversity in people, industries and living, from urban to rural.  It is ranked second among 25 largest cities for most desirable place to purchase a home by Nerdwallet.com and is ranked eight among the top 10 big booming cities by CNNmoney.com.  Charlotte is home of one of North Carolina’s largest college campuses, UNC Charlotte.  Along with a friendly southern culture, Charlotte offers dining, arts, museums, major league basketball, football and soccer teams, a minor league baseball team, NASCAR, shopping, festivals, a variety of amenities and quick access to several parks and reserves for people who love the outdoors.

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As an equal opportunity employer, Asahi Kasei believes a diverse workforce will provide us with the ability to continuously support the changes in the economy, society, and environment.