Supplier Industrialization Engineer

The role

The Supplier Industrialization Engineer ensures suppliers can build parts at quality, cost, and rate. You will qualify suppliers, ramp lines from prototype to mass production, and participate in design reviews.

What you will do

• Ramp supplier lines from early prototype to full production including equipment, staffing, and process.
• Size up new suppliers for capability and long-term fit with Base.
• Work directly with suppliers to design and optimize manufacturing processes.
• Audit facilities, processes, and quality systems during supplier qualification.
• Represent the supplier in design-for-manufacturability reviews.
• Map supplier processes to find capacity bottlenecks.
• Build should-cost models of supplier manufacturing.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Industrial Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
• 2+ years in supplier industrialization, supplier quality, or manufacturing engineering.
• Hands-on high-volume manufacturing experience.
• Working knowledge of several processes: injection molding, CNC machining, PCB/PCBA, stamping, and assembly.
• Ability to run several initiatives at once and hit deadlines.
• Willingness to travel often.

Nice to have

• Manufacturing line design and capital cost estimating.
• APQP, PPAP, SPC, and 8D/RCCA.
• Embedding on-site with suppliers through NPI and ramp.
• Battery, power electronics, or electromechanical assemblies.

About the company

Base is America’s next-generation power company rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries. They build in-house and expand at a speed and cost incumbents can't match.