Manufacturing Engineer, NPI - Walnut Creek, United States - Convectivecapital

Description

Gridware is developing an innovative hardware that plays a crucial role in safeguarding communities from potential disasters related to electricity distribution, such as prolonged power outages, wildfires, and dangerous incidents involving the public.

By utilizing advanced sensors, our technology promptly detects and locates grid disturbances, enabling rapid response to prevent or mitigate their impact.

Join us in our mission to enhance safety and reliability for communities worldwide, protecting against catastrophic events before they occur.

We're currently looking for a Manufacturing Engineer (NPI) to join our growing team.

Working closely with our mechanical lead and our embedded test engineer, you will design and optimize the supply chain and build process for manufacturing-optimized new versions of our device.

You will be the first full-time person in this role, and you'll have an outsized impact on our processes, quality and cost structure.

Responsibilities

This is what you'll be doing:

• Own the entire production process for our hardware products, including the Gridscope and Gateway devices.
• Work closely with our current contract manufacturer (CM) to bring up new production lines.
• Work with our CM to optimize and build long-term relationships with our supply chain partners to achieve predictability and cost savings.
• Work with CM to develop documentation and fixturing to assemble our devices.
• Significant travel required (estimate 30%)

Required Skills

To move forward in the application process you should have at least all of these:

• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, supply chain or contract manufacturing, ideally at a startup or small company which has successfully scaled operations.
• Has managed 2 or more CMs, ideally in multiple US locations.
• Involved in one or more cycles of CM selection and negotiation.
• Has managed a supply chain, including international suppliers.
• Capable of functioning in a startup environment.

Desirable Skills

You are encouraged to apply even if you do not have all of these skills.

But they are very helpful in this very hands-on role:

• Experience with Solidworks or similar CAD package.
• Ability to design and build simple fixtures for assembly/
• Experience with PLM, ERP, etc., ideally in a small company environment/
• QC/FAI experience
• Factory floor layout optimization experience

Most relevant to people with degrees (or equivalent skill) in:

• Mechanical Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering

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