Senior Staff Field Quality Engineer

Bloom Energy•San Jose, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Bloom Energy, the vision is a world powered by clean, reliable, and affordable energy, achieved through pioneering solutions in the global energy transition for over two decades. The company's solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and solid oxide electrolyzer (SOEC) technologies provide energy abundance for critical industries like AI-driven data centers, hospitals, electric grids, manufacturing facilities, and utilities, with over 30,000 fuel cell modules deployed worldwide. Bloom Energy is a trusted partner for Fortune 100 companies, offering cutting-edge solutions for unparalleled "time-to-power" capabilities, reliability, and sustainability. The company thrives on collaboration, bold thinking, and relentless innovation to create a brighter, more sustainable future. The Sr. Staff Field Quality Engineer will join this team, reporting to the Senior Quality Manager, Installations, and primarily supporting customers in the West Coast region. This role will be based at the San Jose, CA location or remotely in the West Coast region. As a Staff Field Quality Engineer, the individual will be responsible for ensuring energy production platforms are designed, installed, and commissioned on time, on schedule, on budget, while meeting all established Quality, Reliability, Safety, and Serviceability requirements.

Requirements

BS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Construction Management or related field or 10 years relevant work experience
Minimum 5 years of field experience constructing, installing and commissioning complex power systems
Ability to read, understand and clearly communicate civil and electrical designs and standards to internal and external partners and respective verticals
Empowered self-starter that operates with significant autonomy with proven ability to clearly communicate schedule, top priorities and documents, escalates key emerging issues to internal and external business partners
Proven ability to leverage organizational roles and responsibilities to hold process owners accountable for meeting established design and workmanship standards and national and regional code requirements
Customer-facing role requires high level of professionalism and communications skills set when responding to site incidents, attending critical milestone activities with customer representatives and communicating Bloom Energy expectations where deficiencies or deviations from contract are identified
Solid experience with MS Suite and Salesforce (or similar) required

Nice To Haves

MS desirable
Oracle experience desirable
International project experience desirable

Responsibilities

Audit and support site construction and Bloom Energy product installations to design requirements ensuring on-time commencement of operations of a safe and reliable site
Gate Bloom Energy and Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) partner projects from proceeding to Service product commissioning phase by inspecting site construction and product installations and confirming design intent is met or exceeded
Document, track and drive resolution of cross functional and external EPC process deficiencies from site design through to commencement of operations
Regularly perform safety and environmental audits of sites across all stages of construction, installation and commissioning
Establish expectation of 8D problem solving methodology with internal and external process owners to ensure that emerging critical quality, safety, reliability and serviceability are quickly contained, followed by effective analysis of root cause(s) and implementation of short and long term corrective measures
Rapid response to Early Life Failures (ELF) in the field for construction, installation and product manufacturing issues utilizing aforementioned 8D process
Support Field Replacement Unit (FRU) exchanges and product upgrade activities at operational sites with Field Service and Operations organizations
Focus on continuous improvement, value-added engineering and cost reduction through observation and collected data of Bloom Energy and EPC performance to key objectives and performance metrics