Senior Field Quality Engineer, Energy Storage

The role

The Senior Field Quality Engineer is responsible for the quality, reliability, and safety of deployed battery energy storage system assets. This person will own failure analysis and corrective action tracking for issues identified in the field.

What you will do

• Serves as the primary point of contact for field-identified quality issues across operating BESS assets
• Leads structured investigations into recurring failures, abnormal trends, and field incidents
• Performs root cause analyses using methods such as 5 Whys, fishbone diagrams, and fault tree analysis
• Defines, tracks, and verifies corrective and preventive actions
• Analyzes and reports fleet performance using reliability statistics
• Develops and tracks quality metrics such as repeat failure rates and defect trends
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives to improve system reliability

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or a related technical discipline
• 5+ years of experience in field quality, reliability engineering, service engineering, or commissioning support for complex electromechanical or energy systems
• Experience working safely on high-voltage AC and DC systems
• Working knowledge of root cause analysis methods and corrective and preventive action processes
• Working knowledge of reliability statistics, including Weibull analysis, Nevada charts, and failure rate trending
• Experience working directly with field operations, technicians, and service engineering teams
• Valid driver's license

About the company

Redwood Materials is a lithium-ion battery recycler in North America that recovers, refines, and redeploys critical minerals. The company also deploys second-life battery projects for AI data centers.