Manufacturing Technician - 6 month contract

The role

A manufacturing technician will drive engineering builds and early manufacturing scale-up of complex power electronics assemblies. You will work with engineering, manufacturing, operations, and equipment teams to establish processes and support product launch development.

What you will do

• Rig and move large fabricated enclosures, weldments, and sub-assemblies using a 2-ton overhead workstation crane, chain hoists, and a mobile gantry
• Select, inspect, and rig hardware for each lift
• Identify center of gravity and pick points on large asymmetric assemblies
• Operate a sit-down counterbalance forklift to receive, stage, and position cabinet frames, panels, and hardware
• Build and square cabinet structures on rolling assembly fixtures
• Torque structural fasteners to spec, verify squareness and flatness, and document before handoff
• Perform daily pre-use inspection on slings, hooks, hoists, and forklift
• Work from mechanical drawings, weldment prints, and BOMs
• Help build assembly fixtures, carts, and lift aids
• Keep rigging gear staged, inspected, and organized

Required qualifications

• 3+ years in manufacturing, fabrication, or industrial assembly with hands-on rigging as a regular part of the job
• Forklift certification
• Demonstrated overhead crane and hoist experience with loads above 500 lb
• Able to read mechanical drawings, weldment prints, and BOMs
• Confident with hand and power tools, torque wrenches, and layout/measuring tools
• Able to lift 50 lb, work from ladders, and stand for a full shift
• Clear communication and standard crane hand signals

Nice to have

• Qualified rigger training or NCCCO rigger certification
• Experience with large sheet metal enclosures, switchgear, transformers, or shipping-frame builds
• Scissor or boom lift certification
• Welding or structural fabrication background
• Worked somewhere the process was still being written, and improved it

About the company

Heron Power is a startup company building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. They aim to debottleneck the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and less costly hardware solutions.