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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.

Own a strategic sourcing category, including supplier relationships, contracts, raw materials, and sub-tier vendors. Develop sourcing strategies, identify and qualify global suppliers, negotiate pricing and lead times, assess supply-chain risks, monitor markets and supplier capacity, and collaborate with leadership, engineering, and supply-chain teams. The role requires strong commercial judgment, technical learning ability, negotiation expertise, and global travel.

Lead electromechanical design for high-voltage battery power systems including busbars, cables, harnesses, isolation, grounding, enclosures, and safety interlocks. Perform thermal, structural, and manufacturability analyses, run RCAs, create drawings and manufacturing instructions, and take designs from concept to high-volume production while collaborating across engineering teams and supporting test-stand safety.

Lead full-cycle recruiting for niche mechanical, electrical, and hardware engineering roles. Partner with executives and hiring managers, build data-driven talent pipelines, provide hardware talent-market intelligence, improve hiring processes, conduct creative outreach, and manage complex offer negotiations. The role requires strategic influence, hands-on execution, strong technical recruiting expertise, and onsite work in Berkeley two days per week.

Manage and develop Form Energy’s purchasing systems ecosystem, serving as the primary ZipHQ administrator. Responsibilities include configuring workflows and user roles, managing integrations and APIs with ERP, Jira, and procurement systems, supporting supplier punchout catalogs, troubleshooting system issues, coordinating with Finance and IT, implementing new capabilities, and training end users.

Lead full-cycle technical recruiting for hardware engineering: manage complex searches, partner with executives, design data-driven sourcing and pipeline strategies, drive structured hiring processes, provide market intelligence, and close top mechanical/electrical talent using modern recruiting tools.

Manage corporate treasury and enterprise risk programs: payment processing via Oracle ERP, liquidity and cash forecasting, bank administration, debt covenant tracking and reporting, interest management, and oversight of company-wide insurance programs, renewals, and claims administration.

Lead structural design for utility-scale battery enclosures, using FEA (Ansys) and hand calculations to optimize for performance, weatherproofing, manufacturability, and cost. Drive design-to-production for sheet metal and weldment assemblies, validate via test correlation, present findings, and perform failure root-cause analysis.

Lead Design for Reliability for electro-mechanical plant subsystems, define reliability requirements and validation roadmaps, design and run accelerated lifetime tests (focus on industrial control panels and outdoor power electronics), perform DFMEAs and root cause analysis, mentor peers, and champion safety across cross-functional teams.