Manufacturing Engineer - Scale-Up & Throughput Expert

Helion Energy; Everett, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision plans

PTO (vacation and sick days)

401(k) match

Disability and life insurance

Parental leave and support

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Helion Energy in Everett, WA is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to design, implement, and optimize the production processes for in-house capacitors. This onsite role collaborates with Supply Chain, Production, Engineering and Test Operations to influence the commissioning timeline for Helion's first power plant and lay the groundwork for generator mass-manufacturing.

You will design rate-based assembly processes, manage interdisciplinary projects to improve throughput, and identify high-ROI

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical work experience in production systems.
• Hands-on engineering or manufacturing experience in rate-based manufacturing.
• Experience communicating with and influencing partners across organizational lines.
• Cradle-to-grave ownership of complex engineering or production scopes.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement rate-based assembly processes with support from Production and Engineering.
• Manage interdisciplinary projects to increase rate and throughput of capacitor line (layout, tooling, cells, equipment).
• Develop new business processes such as non-conformance management, process control, safety, and asset maintenance for scale-up.
• Gather data (labor hours, cycle times, fallout) to identify bottlenecks and deploy solutions (design changes, process changes, equipment, automation).
• Identify high ROI capabilities including capital equipment and software to improve manufacturing, partnering with multiple teams.
• Collaborate on development of future processes in parallel with supporting higher output on current line.

Skills

Rate-based manufacturing

Cross-functional collaboration

Project ownership

Data analysis

Job description

Helion Energy in Everett, WA is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to design, implement, and optimize the production processes for in-house capacitors. This onsite role collaborates with Supply Chain, Production, Engineering and Test Operations to influence the commissioning timeline for Helion's first power plant and lay the groundwork for generator mass-manufacturing.

You will design rate-based assembly processes, manage interdisciplinary projects to improve throughput, and identify high-ROI