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About the Role
Redwood Materials is seeking a Supplier Industrialization Engineer to scale mechanical commodity suppliers for their novel energy generation product, ensuring parts meet dimensional, functional, and reliability requirements. This role involves supporting supplier ramp-ups, capacity analysis, process approvals, part qualifications, NPI builds, and ongoing supplier performance.
Responsibilities
- Support supplier audits and risk assessments to qualify new sources and ensure readiness for mass production.
- Partner with GSMs, Design Engineering, and suppliers to align specifications, tolerance stack-ups, test coverage, and process controls.
- Review dimensional and quality reports, and first article inspections to ensure part compliance.
- Execute PPAP/FAI activities and define incoming inspection criteria.
- Support supplier non-conformance resolution and drive 8D investigations.
- Maintain supplier scorecards with clear KPIs.
- Support NPI builds and DFM/DFA feedback loops through early supplier engagement.
- Help build and define a strong network of vendor partners.
- Support make-vs-buy, dual sourcing, and localization efforts.
- Contribute to sourcing decisions, lead-time analysis, and manufacturing footprint strategies.
Requirements
- 3+ years of supplier quality, industrial engineering, process controls, or related experience, ideally in automotive, industrial hardware, or high-volume electronics manufacturing.
- Strong understanding of mechanical fabrication processes: CNC machining, casting, injection molding, extrusion, sheet metal, riveting, welding, plating.
- Familiarity with PCBA manufacturing processes (SMT, through-hole wave and selective soldering, reflow oven profiles, test strategies).
- Proficiency reading engineering drawings and applying GD&T.
- Familiarity with dimension metrology (CMM, calipers, gauges) and statistical process control.
- Familiarity with APQP, PPAP, SPC, DFMEA/PFMEA, and ISO quality systems.
- Highly collaborative, data-driven, and proactive.
- Capable of thriving in fast-paced startup environments.
- Willingness to travel internationally to supplier sites as needed (30%).
Skills
- Mechanical fabrication processes
- PCBA manufacturing processes
- GD&T
- Dimension metrology
- Statistical process control
- APQP
- PPAP
- SPC
- DFMEA/PFMEA
- ISO quality systems
Location
- San Francisco R&D Space
Work Type
- Fully on-site
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Education Level
- B.S. in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, Economics or equivalent technical background
- M.S. in Industrial Engineering, Engineering Management, Supply Chain, and/or MBA a plus
Salary/Compensations
- $177,500—$235,000 USD
About the Company
- Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla.
- The company's mission is to recover, refine, and redeploy critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain.
- Redwood is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America.
- The company has deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world.
- The market Redwood operates in is projected to grow 20 to 50 times over the next decade.
- Redwood is the only company with the supply chain, technology, and operational scale to lead the market.