Manufacturing Operations Engineer
About The Position
The Manufacturing Operations Engineer will support the transition from engineering design to reliable, repeatable production for a modular nano grid system integrating solar, battery storage, grid power, generator input, and advanced power electronics. The company is entering a commercial execution and scale-up phase, and this role will help strengthen production processes, manage build readiness, support inventory planning, and ensure customer systems are manufactured and installed on schedule. The position focuses on improving manufacturing processes, assembly workflows, quality controls, work instructions, production documentation, inventory planning, and supply chain coordination. The engineer will ensure that required parts, materials, tools, and documentation are available before each system build and installation. The role works across engineering, production, operations, inventory, suppliers, and installation scheduling in a growing hardware company where production quality, inventory accuracy, supplier lead times, and customer installation schedules must be coordinated closely. This is a hands-on onsite role in the Santa Clara/San Jose area. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable working with technicians, engineers, tools, parts, physical assemblies, and inventory.
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.
- Comfort working hands-on with technicians, engineers, tools, parts, physical assemblies, and inventory.
- Ability to organize complex information and turn it into clear, repeatable processes.
- Comfort working in a startup or fast-changing production environment.
Nice To Haves
- 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.
- 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.
- Background in electrical engineering and production management.
- Battery or electric grid storage system manufacturing experience.
Responsibilities
- Support the transition from engineering design to reliable, repeatable production.
- Improve manufacturing processes and assembly workflows.
- Support quality controls, work instructions, production procedures, checklists, and manufacturing documentation.
- Manage build readiness and help ensure required parts, materials, tools, and documentation are available before system builds and installations.
- Support inventory planning and inventory processes.
- Coordinate with supply chain stakeholders, suppliers, and production teams.
- Help ensure customer systems are manufactured and installed on schedule.
- Track parts, suppliers, deadlines, and build requirements.
- Troubleshoot production and material-availability issues systematically.
- Coordinate across engineering, production, operations, inventory, suppliers, and installation scheduling.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance available.
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Job Type
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