Staff Mechanical Engineer, Development

NextGenEnergyJobs; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bloom Energy is seeking a Sustaining Product Design and Supplier Development Engineer in California to sustain product development for reliability, cost reduction, and manufacturability improvements. You will provide technical support to field service and quality teams, interfacing with manufacturing on design improvements and with contract manufacturers on qualification and timing.

Responsibilities include leading design changes, coordinating ECN processes, and transferring designs to suppliers

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Proficient in CAD modeling with SolidWorks.
• Experience sustaining product design and supplier development.

Responsibilities

• Sustain product development for reliability and cost reduction.
• Interface with quality groups to identify field reliability issues and drive root causes.
• Collaborate with manufacturing to improve manufacturability and implement design changes.
• Design/validate/implement changes to reduce product cost.
• Lead design transfer to contract manufacturers and suppliers with milestones.
• Drive process development to improve manufacturability and learn from lessons.
• Address capacity and DFM issues with suppliers and engineers.
• Provide engineering solutions to design/manufacturing problems with suppliers.
• Manage top level assemblies in a PDM environment and communicate with suppliers.
• Control drawing and model releases through an ECN process.
• Create and manage SolidWorks CAD models, drawings, and assemblies.
• Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Skills

CAD Modeling

SolidWorks

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

PDM system

Job description

• Responsible for sustaining product development for reliability improvement, design for manufacturing, and cost reduction
• Responsible for interfacing with quality groups to identify reliability issues in the field, driving root cause, and designing/implementing changes to mitigate these failures.
• Responsible for meeting with manufacturing and supporting design changes to improve manufacturability and driving testing/implementation.
• Responsible for designing/validating/implementing changes to reduce product cost
• Lead technical design transfer to BE Contract Manufacturers and suppliers while meeting established milestones for production release
• Ability to drive process development and improvement to manufacturability and incorporate lessons learned
• Ability to address capacity and design for manufacturing issues with suppliers and engineers
• Utilize engineering knowledge to provide solutions to challenging design and manufacturing problems to suppliers and engineering
• Manage top level assemblies in a PDM system environment and communicate to supplier
• Control drawing and model releases through an ECN process
• Create and manage Solidworks CAD models, drawings and assemblies
• Communicates effectively with cross functional teams and within group

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
• CAD Modeling experience (Solidworks)
• The Sustaining Product Design and Supplier Development Engineer is responsible for the design of Bloom’s sustaining product. They will be providing technical support for our field service and quality teams in diagnosing failures and implementing design solutions. They will be interfacing with manufacturing on design improvements for manufacturing and volume as well as reduction in cost. They will be responsible for providing technical support on design and working with NPI/Quality/Supply chain in qualifying new suppliers on existing product. They will work closely with contract manufacturers for qualifying existing product as well as implementing design changes on aggressive timelines.
• Bloom Energy is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.