Hardware Production Engineer: Scalable Energy Systems

PeopleConnect Staffing; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

PeopleConnect Staffing is recruiting a Production Engineer — Materials and Manufacturing to join a growing hardware company in the San Jose area. You will translate designs into scalable production workflows, develop assembly procedures, and ensure readiness for builds, testing, and installation.

The role requires hands-on work with technicians and engineers, focusing on process improvement, inventory coordination, and ensuring on-time delivery for customer systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, supply chain, operations, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in production, manufacturing, assembly, process engineering, manufacturing operations, materials planning, inventory control, supply chain coordination, or a related hardware environment.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, bills of materials, assembly instructions, and technical documentation.
• Strong understanding of how BOMs, inventory, purchasing, production schedules, and build readiness connect in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to production quality.
• Experience creating or improving work instructions, checklists, production procedures, inventory processes, or manufacturing documentation.
• Strong spreadsheet skills and comfort working with inventory trackers, build plans, BOMs, lead-time tables, and purchasing data.
• Ability to track multiple parts, suppliers, deadlines, and build requirements at the same time.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot production or material-availability issues systematically.
• Comfortable working hands-on with technicians, engineers, tools, parts, physical assemblies, and inventory.
• Ability to organize complex information and turn it into clear, repeatable processes.
• Comfortable working in a startup or fast-changing production environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop, improve, and maintain production processes for product assembly, testing, shipment, and installation readiness.
• Translate engineering designs into clear, repeatable production workflows.
• Create and maintain work instructions, assembly procedures, checklists, quality-control documents, and production travelers.
• Work with engineering and technicians to identify and resolve assembly, wiring, mechanical, documentation, and process issues.
• Support production planning by helping define labor requirements, tooling needs, workstation setup, material flow, and assembly sequencing.
• Review bills of materials, drawings, production documentation, and customer-specific configuration details for accuracy and completeness.
• Help ensure that production builds match the approved engineering design, customer requirements, and installation scope.
• Identify opportunities to reduce errors, improve efficiency, shorten build time, and increase production consistency.
• Support incoming inspection, in-process inspection, final inspection, and test-readiness processes.
• Help create root-cause analysis and corrective-action processes for production or quality issues.
• Collaborate with engineering on design-for-manufacturing, design-for-service, and design-for-installation improvements.
• Support production readiness for new product revisions, customer-specific configurations, and field upgrades.
• Work with TUV or similar agencies to get some or all of manufacturing to meet applicable UL certification or ISO compliance requirements.

Skills

Production and manufacturing

Reading engineering drawings

BOMs and inventory

Documentation and work instructions

Spreadsheet proficiency

Multi-part coordination

Problem solving

Hands-on with hardware

Startup environment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical/electrical/industrial/manufacturing or related field, or equivalent

Tools

OpenBOM

NetSuite

QuickBooks

Fishbowl

Katana

Odoo

Google Sheets

Excel

Job description

PeopleConnect Staffing is recruiting a Production Engineer — Materials and Manufacturing to join a growing hardware company in the San Jose area. You will translate designs into scalable production workflows, develop assembly procedures, and ensure readiness for builds, testing, and installation.

The role requires hands-on work with technicians and engineers, focusing on process improvement, inventory coordination, and ensuring on-time delivery for customer systems.