The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer manages supplier quality through audits and process qualification, collaborates with cross-functional teams, and ensures compliance with quality standards.
Company Overview
Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable local power generation technology, 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 reaction with near-zero NOx emissions.
Backed by top-tier investors including Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, Lightrock, and General Catalyst 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 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.
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
- 5+ years of Quality Engineering experience in a fast paced and high growth environment (industrial and/or automotive a plus)
- 1+ 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-haves
- 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
Nice-to-haves
- 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
- Experience with special processes, assemblies and test methods
- Advanced inspection methods such as vision or laser scanning and metrology
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.
Top Skills
Apqp
Lean
Ppap
Quality Engineering
Root Cause Analysis
Six Sigma
Mainspring Energy Menlo Park, California, USA Office
3601 Haven Avenue, Menlo Park, CA, United States, 94025
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