Senior Mechanical Manufacturing Engineer

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Catalyzing a cleaner future.

At ESS (NYSE: GWH), our mission is to accelerate global decarbonization by providing safe, sustainable, long-duration energy storage that powers people, communities, and businesses with clean, renewable energy anytime and anywhere it’s needed. As more renewable energy is added to the grid, long- duration energy storage is essential to providing the reliability and resiliency we need when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing.

Our technology uses earth-abundant iron, salt, and water to deliver environmentally safe solutions capable of providing up to 12 hours of flexible energy capacity for commercial and utility-scale energy storage applications. Established in 2011, ESS Inc. enables project developers, independent power producers, utilities, and other large energy users to deploy reliable, sustainable long-duration energy storage solutions. For more information visit www.essinc.com.

As the SeniorMechanical Manufacturing Engineer, you will be responsible for taking late-stage design or R&D concepts and establishing turnkey, robust manufacturing processes and equipment. You will work with a cross functional team to develop, validate, and improve products and processes to make them ready and viable for full scale manufacturability.

What you’ll do at ESS.

• Develop, validate, and oversee projects from prototype or early design to robust and ready to manufacture at scale.
• Establish BOMs, workflow processes, fixtures, and robotics to achieve robust and efficient processes.
• Collaborate with R&D and Design engineering, Quality, Program Mgmt., and Manufacturing to satisfy all stakeholders are satisfied for a turnkey manufacturing process.
• Support product launch by establishing labor estimates, handling and material needs, and robotics or machine equipment requirements including design, implementation, install, test, and validation.
• Validate manufacturing processes and provide production support through successful and sustained project launch.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement projects with respect to first pass yield, cycle time reduction, product reliability, capacity enhancement and cost reduction.
• Design and/or source and implement necessary tooling & fixtures for manufacturing and process improvements with a focus on automation.
• Ensure manufacturing tooling, fixtures and processes are EHS compliant per site policies.
• Execute to program timelines and budgets.

What you bring to the table.

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university
• 3+ years of experience in development or advanced manufacturing or similar.
• 2+ years of experience in manufacturing or operations.
• 2+ years CAD/CAM and tool/fixture build, source, and deployment experience in a manufacturing production environment.
• Demonstrated experience owning at least one of the following or similar:
  • Implementing Robotics and/or CAD/CAM or PLC operated equipment in a manufacturing environment.
  • Sourcing and qualifying suppliers to a finished component involving wiring harnesses, electrical control and instrumentation panels, or power management electronics and controls.
  • Developing quality plans, sampling plans, value streams or other methods of establishing and training turnkey, robust, processes and work instructions.
• Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams of system design professionals including electrical, mechanical, software and Manufacturing Engineers.
• Experience with BOM design, Oracle workflows, implementation and iterative improvement and validation of a young product design.

We’d love to see:

• Strong oral and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Lead initiatives of moderate scope and impact. Ability to coordinate several projects simultaneously.
• Effective problem identification and solution skills. Proven analytical and organizational ability.
• Ability to read and generate drawings and specifications - GD&T experience.
• Strong electrical aptitude.
• Strong problem-solving abilities.
• Lean Six Sigma or equivalent training/experience.

Benefits of working at ESS.

In addition to the value of working with and helping grow a global reaching clean technology, ESS offers Company assisted medical, dental and vision, 401k with Company match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), a generous PTO accrual, and 8 paid holidays.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are open to considering every qualified candidate who is eligible and legally authorized to work in the United States on a full or part-time basis, without a need for sponsorship.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.