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About the Role

Our client is developing and commercializing a modular nanogrid system and is seeking a Manufacturing / Production Engineer to strengthen production processes, manage build readiness, support inventory planning, and ensure timely manufacturing and installation of customer systems. This role is crucial for a growing hardware company focused on production quality, inventory accuracy, supplier lead times, and customer installation schedules.

Responsibilities

Develop, improve, and maintain production processes for product assembly, testing, shipment, and installation readiness.
Translate engineering designs into clear, repeatable production workflows.
Create and maintain work instructions, assembly procedures, checklists, quality-control documents, and production travelers.
Work with engineering and technicians to identify and resolve assembly, wiring, mechanical, documentation, and process issues.
Support production planning by defining labor requirements, tooling needs, workstation setup, material flow, and assembly sequencing.
Review bills of materials, drawings, production documentation, and customer-specific configuration details for accuracy and completeness.
Ensure production builds match the approved engineering design, customer requirements, and installation scope.
Identify opportunities to reduce errors, improve efficiency, shorten build time, and increase production consistency.
Support incoming inspection, in-process inspection, final inspection, and test-readiness processes.
Help create root-cause analysis and corrective-action processes for production or quality issues.
Collaborate with engineering on design-for-manufacturing, design-for-service, and design-for-installation improvements.
Support production readiness for new product revisions, customer-specific configurations, and field upgrades.
Work with TUV or similar agencies to meet applicable UL certification or ISO compliance requirements.
Maintain accurate visibility into current inventory, including stock, location, and allocation.
Determine required parts for upcoming system builds, installations, upgrades, and service work.
Compare upcoming build requirements against available inventory and identify shortages.
Track inbound parts, open purchase orders, expected arrival dates, supplier commitments, and delivery delays.
Maintain or improve inventory tracking systems, part lists, BOMs, reorder points, and build-specific materials checklists.
Define minimum stock levels, safety stock requirements, reorder points, and preferred stocking strategies.
Track supplier lead times, minimum order quantities, pricing, and ordering constraints.
Ensure material availability is reviewed early and continuously to support production and installation schedules.
Determine when purchase orders need to be placed for timely part arrival.
Develop forward-looking materials plans based on production schedule, customer projects, supplier lead times, and installation commitments.
Communicate material risks clearly to leadership, engineering, production, and operations.
Support vendor coordination, supplier follow-up, and escalation for delayed critical parts.
Identify opportunities to qualify alternate suppliers or substitute parts in coordination with engineering.
Help reduce emergency purchasing, expedited shipping, stockouts, and schedule disruptions.
Support continuous improvement of purchasing, receiving, inventory, and production-readiness processes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, supply chain, operations, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience in production, manufacturing, assembly, process engineering, manufacturing operations, materials planning, inventory control, supply chain coordination, or a related hardware environment.
Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, bills of materials, assembly instructions, and technical documentation.
Strong understanding of how BOMs, inventory, purchasing, production schedules, and build readiness connect in a manufacturing environment.
Strong attention to detail and commitment to production quality.
Experience creating or improving work instructions, checklists, production procedures, inventory processes, or manufacturing documentation.
Strong spreadsheet skills and comfort working with inventory trackers, build plans, BOMs, lead-time tables, and purchasing data.
Ability to track multiple parts, suppliers, deadlines, and build requirements simultaneously.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot production or material-availability issues systematically.
Comfortable working hands-on with technicians, engineers, tools, parts, physical assemblies, and inventory.
Ability to organize complex information and turn it into clear, repeatable processes.
Comfortable working in a startup or fast-changing production environment.
Experience with battery systems, energy storage systems, solar equipment, power electronics, electrical cabinets, control panels, industrial equipment, or other electromechanical systems.
Experience with low-volume, high-complexity hardware manufacturing.
Experience with inventory management, materials planning, purchasing coordination, supplier follow-up, production planning, or build-readiness reviews.
Familiarity with BOM management, part numbering, revision control, receiving processes, cycle counts, reorder points, safety stock, lead times, and minimum order quantities.
Familiarity with ERP, MRP, inventory, or BOM tools such as OpenBOM, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Fishbowl, Katana, Odoo, Google Sheets, Excel, or similar systems.
Experience supporting UL, electrical, safety, or product-certification-related documentation is a plus.
Experience improving production layout, tooling, fixture design, assembly flow, warehouse organization, kitting, or technician training.
Experience working with vendors, contract manufacturers, distributors, electrical component suppliers, or fabrication suppliers.

Skills

Production process improvement
Assembly workflow management
Quality control
Work instruction creation
Production documentation
Inventory planning
Supply chain coordination
Bill of Materials (BOM) review
Engineering design translation
Root-cause analysis
Corrective action implementation
Design-for-manufacturing
Design-for-service
Design-for-installation
Inventory tracking
Materials planning
Supplier management
Production scheduling
Spreadsheet proficiency
Problem-solving
Troubleshooting
Hands-on assembly
Process organization
Startup environment adaptability
Battery systems
Energy storage systems
Solar equipment
Power electronics
Electromechanical systems
Low-volume, high-complexity manufacturing
ERP/MRP systems
UL certification support
Production layout optimization
Vendor coordination

Location

San Jose area (onsite)

Work Type

Onsite
Full-time

Experience Level

Mid-level
Senior-level

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in engineering, supply chain, operations, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Salary/Compensations

$140,000 - $150,000

About the Company

Developing and commercializing a modular nanogrid system designed to provide reliable, resilient power for large homes, small commercial facilities, and mission-critical applications.
Product integrates solar, battery storage, grid power, generator input, and advanced power electronics into a scalable system.
Entering a commercial execution and scale-up phase.