Staff Supplier Quality Engineer - Mechanical

Mainspring Energy; Menlo Park (CA); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pre-IPO stock options

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

A leading energy company in Menlo Park is looking for a Quality Engineer with over 10 years of experience. This role involves collaborating with suppliers to ensure quality and compliance, while actively participating in new product development. The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and expertise in quality planning processes like APQP and PPAP. This position is hybrid and offers competitive compensation and pre-IPO stock options.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Quality Engineering experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in machining, welding, casting, or coating.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships with assigned suppliers.
• Assess supplier capability via audits for compliance.
• Collaboratively qualify processes with Suppliers and Teams.

Skills

Quality Engineering

APQP

Root Cause Analysis

Six Sigma

Lean Management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related discipline

Tools

Collaboration tools (Basecamp, Asana, Trello)

Relational databases (Airtable, Quickbase)

Job description

Job Overview

While Mainspring is growing rapidly to scale production of its linear generators, quality is a crucial element to the success of our mission. The Supplier Quality Team is responsible for supplier selection and performance monitoring as it relates to key supplier delivery and quality requirements. You will refine and execute improvements to the supplier audit and qualification process in concert with Supply Chain, Engineering and the other members of the QA team. You will work to develop and execute quality plans by utilizing the Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) process, including working with other tools such as Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) and root-cause analysis on a regular basis. You are highly organized, communicative, and will thrive in a nimble, fast-paced environment that includes Engineering, R&D, Operations and Supply Chain.

Base pay range $135,000.00/yr - $159,000.00/yr

Company Overview

Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless technology with near-zero NOx emissions.

Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion. Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.

We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:

Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.

Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.

Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.

More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain trusting relationships with the assigned suppliers as well as our internal stakeholders
• Assess supplier capability via site visits and process audits for compliance to regulations, agreements, standards, and documented processes
• Collaboratively qualify processes with Suppliers, Design Engineers, Supplier Quality Team and Incoming Inspection Team
• Actively participate in and lead new product development teams as it relates to supplier quality to support product and process design and development activities via leading the supplier risk management process
• Support the review/approve product and process change control documentation and specifications as it relates to assigned suppliers

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related discipline
• 10+ years of Quality Engineering experience in a fast paced and high growth environment (industrial and/or automotive a plus)
• 2+ years of experience in one of these areas: machining, welding, casting, coating (automotive or aerospace quality systems a plus)
• Knowledge and experience with implementing APQP, PPAP and Root Cause Analysis
• Six Sigma, Lean, and ASQ Certification and trainings are preferred
• The position will require up to 30% travel

Must have

• You have successfully launched, into volume production, complex components and assemblies using quality planning from prototype through mass production stages.
• You have actively participated in a product development effort and thus know what it takes to transition from prototype to volume production.
• You have a good understanding of and have successfully implemented gates within a product development process.
• You can thrive in structured and unstructured environments and are not dissuaded at the prospect of making hard decisions about what is important and urgent against a backdrop of limited resources.
• Experience with mechanical/machined parts and components, special processes, assemblies and test methods

Like to have

• You have used collaboration tools like Basecamp, Asana or Trello and relational databases like Airtable or Quickbase to achieve results with X-functional teams
• You have effectively used Background in geometric dimensioning and tolerancing ANSI Y14.5 to interpret manufacturing drawings and tolerance requirements
• Advanced inspection methods such as vision or laser scanning and metrology

This position is hybrid at our Menlo Park HQ. The salary will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as the experience of the employee. Along with the base salary, Mainspring offers pre-IPO stock options + benefits.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Quality Assurance
• Industries
• Electric Power Generation

EEO: This is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.