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Develop and deploy automated Functional Circuit Test and End-of-Line manufacturing test systems for PCBA and system-level products. Define test strategies, coverage, acceptance criteria, and validation methods; integrate fixtures and equipment with vendors; execute FAT and SAT; provide Design-for-Test feedback; support NPI, failure analysis, root-cause investigations, and manufacturing ramp activities. Collaborate with electrical, firmware, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams while improving test automation, diagnostics, reliability, and efficiency.

Build and lead Form Energy’s Employee Relations function, including investigation processes, case management, policies, reporting, and escalation frameworks. Manage a complex, high-volume caseload; conduct legally sound investigations; advise senior leaders and People Partners; coach managers; identify systemic risks through ER analytics; and collaborate with Legal and other People teams. The role is hybrid in Weirton, WV or Somerville, MA and requires travel to company locations.

Develop and execute sourcing strategies for PCBA and electronic components used in iron-air battery systems. Manage strategic suppliers, contract manufacturers, negotiations, pricing, lead times, supplier KPIs, tier-two materials, and production scaling. Analyze market conditions, supplier capacity, technology roadmaps, and supply-demand risks while partnering with leadership, engineering, and supply chain teams. The hybrid Berkeley role requires approximately 30% domestic and international travel.

Design and validate industrial control panels for high-voltage battery systems. Responsibilities include schematic, layout, and BOM development in EPLAN; component selection; NEC and UL 508A compliance; vendor coordination; high-voltage testing; mechanical integration; and DFMEA support. The role requires electrical engineering knowledge, panel design experience, high-voltage safety expertise, and familiarity with power conversion, protection coordination, PLM, product development, and requirements management tools.

Owns the fabricated metal parts category and develops global sourcing strategies. Responsibilities include researching markets, identifying and qualifying suppliers, negotiating contracts and pricing, reducing costs, optimizing logistics, analyzing manufacturing costs and risks, forecasting market trends, and managing supplier relationships. The role collaborates with leadership, supply chain, engineering, and strategic teams in a hybrid Berkeley, California environment.

Design, prototype, validate, and release mechanical components and systems for high-volume battery manufacturing. Lead CAD, drafting, BOMs, change management, DFMEA, supplier communication, manufacturing transitions, compliance testing, and prototype line bring-up. Collaborate cross-functionally to optimize manufacturability, weight, performance, cost, reliability, and engineering rigor.

Track and analyze material costs, maintain bill of materials cost data, support purchase approvals, monitor spend against budgets, and report supply chain financial performance. The role includes scrap tracking, cost-savings analysis, KPI preparation, variance commentary, and cross-functional collaboration with Accounting, Logistics, and Global Sourcing Managers in a manufacturing startup environment.

Leads supplier industrialization strategy for electromechanical and power conversion assemblies, including PCBAs, wire harnesses, electrical panels, and skid-level builds. Manages and develops Supplier Industrialization Engineers, establishes PPAP/APQP and SCAR/CAPA frameworks, resolves supplier quality issues, manages capacity and performance, and partners cross-functionally on sourcing and technology roadmaps. Requires 20–30% travel to supplier sites for audits and process-readiness validation.

Leads end-to-end industrialization and quality accountability for custom wire harnesses and cable assemblies. Owns PPAP and APQP, defines manufacturing standards, resolves production and field issues, manages supplier performance, applies DFM/DFA principles, and conducts supplier audits and source inspections. The role requires deep expertise in harness manufacturing, electrical testing, connector systems, and high-voltage applications, with approximately 20% travel.

Designs and owns air delivery subsystems for utility-scale iron-air batteries. Responsibilities include system architecture, fluid-flow modeling, prototyping, testing, design verification, cost optimization, manufacturing transition, vendor leadership, actuator and sensor integration, safety certification support, and mentoring junior engineers.