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

Job Overview

While Mainspring is growing rapidly to scale up production rate, quality is a crucial element to the success of our mission. The Manufacturing Quality Team is responsible for improving and ensuring product quality. You will refine and execute improvements to our conformance system of the manufacturing processes by collaborating with the Manufacturing, Design Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering as well as other members of the enterprise. You will work to develop and execute conformance acceptance plans by utilizing the Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) process, and other quality system principles. You are highly organized, detail-oriented, communicative, and will thrive in a nimble, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

Lead the Quality Inspection Team and support their growth in terms of skillset and effectiveness.
Develop and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders including Manufacturing Operations, Supplier Quality Engineering, Contract Manufacturers and Design Engineering.
Prioritize inspections and allocate resources to satisfy both internal and external stakeholders demands.
Assess process capability performing Incoming Quality Control (IQC), In-Process Quality Control (IPQC) and Outgoing Quality Control (OQC) inspections to reduce resource allocation, identify opportunities for continuous improvement and lead Built In Quality (BIQ).
Generate improvement ideas on dimensional inspection methods beyond CMM.
Provide Design For Manufacturability/ Inspectability (DFx) feedback using data collected through inspections.
Establish and maintain measurement tools calibration and certification.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related discipline
5+ years of inspection experience in a fast paced and high growth environment (industrial and/or automotive a plus)
3+ years of people leader experience
Knowledge and experience with manufacturing processes like CNC, casting and metal fabrication
The position will require up to 10% travel to contract manufacturers and suppliers

Must Haves

You have effectively used geometric dimensioning and tolerancing ANSI Y14.5 to interpret manufacturing drawings and tolerance requirements to define the most effective measurement methods and tools.
You have programmed advanced measurement equipment like CMM (knowledge of Zeiss Calipso is a plus).
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.
A good understanding on how to establish and improve a conformance system
Experience in digital tools for data collection, analysis, and dashboarding

Like to have

You have actively participated in a manufacturing scale-up and know what it takes to transition from prototype, or pre-production to volume production.
You have used IPC 610 best practices to inspect electrical and electronic products.
You have used collaboration tools like Jira, Basecamp, Asana or Trello and relational databases like Airtable or Quickbase to achieve results with X-functional teams.
You have dealt with the limited observability of special processes (welding, coating, metal surface finishing, heat treatment, and etc) and familiar with Destructive and Non-Destructive Testing to inspect results

Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc 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.

This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.

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