What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Engineer – Glass Tempering position at LuxWall, Inc.?
LuxWall is focused on the product development, scaling and commercializing of innovative glass products and solutions for the built environment. LuxWall’s transparent insulation technology, Enthermal, provides a step change in energy performance by significantly reducing convective, conductive, and radiative heat gain and heat loss in buildings. Acting as a transparent thermos bottle for buildings, LuxWall has the potential to reduce global carbon emissions by more than 0.5 gigaton per year with mass adoption. Enthermal will forever change the way buildings are designed and constructed for the future sustainability of our planet.
Job Overview:
The Staff Engineer will be responsible for specifying, designing, installing and optimizing manufacturing tools related to glass tempering systems. They will ensure that assigned tools are designed and built on time and to the performance required to support the company’s technology and business goals. This position will be actively involved in design and implementation of future manufacturing facilities and will support the company’s growth goals.
Position Responsibilities
- Lead by example to drive a safety-first culture in all aspects of the workplace.
- Write equipment specifications and RFQs for new and used equipment.
- Evaluating existing processes and procedures to identify areas that need optimization.
- Present proposed equipment designs at scaling design reviews to solicit feedback from scaling team and leadership team.
- Collaborate with equipment suppliers and integrators to ensure equipment meets performance and cost requirements.
- Collaborate with the cross functional team and supply chain to issue POs for equipment.
- Take the lead with mechanical and electrical contractors to install the necessary equipment and infrastructure for new manufacturing tools.
- Ensure that all equipment is installed and operated in a safe manner and has appropriate engineering controls, where applicable, to ensure safe operation.
- Specify, design, install and conduct FAT/SAT for new equipment builds.
- Together with the operations team, ensure that all technicians are trained on the operation and safety of all equipment.
- Collaborate with the high volume manufacturing team to launch all manufacturing tools.
- Ability to select appropriate components to maximize system performance and control cost.
- Participate in PFMEA, Control Plan and SOP generation associated with launches.
- Take full ownership of glass tempering and associated QC equipment from specification through production ramp.
- Characterize heating and cooling processes using thermal measurement systems to ensure equipment is performing according to design criteria.
- Train factory operations personnel to conduct thermal profiling of heating equipment to ensure compliance with design performance.
- Complete capability studies for new processes.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure project milestones are met on time and within budget.
- Prepare and present technical documentation, reports, and project updates to stakeholders.
- Analyze production data to identify opportunities for process improvement and efficiency gains.
- Lead and direct the rollout of equipment modifications and upgrades in all Luxwall production facilities. Maintain a matrix of equipment revs to track facility-to-facility tool differences.
- Help build preventative and predictive maintenance requirements.
- Ensure thermal systems achieve critical targets including output per hour, process yield, unscheduled downtime, MTTR, MTBF, number of required operators and other critical parameters per manufacturing planning and targets.
Position Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- 6 years of demonstrated experience with new equipment design, builds, installation and debugging.
- 4 years of hands on knowledge of heat transfer mechanisms.
- 3 years of experience with commissioning and operation of glass tempering furnaces, including optimizing the operation for glass flatness and stress profile.
- Extensive experience with tempered glass QC procedures and equipment used to measure glass flatness.
- Demonstrated experience tempering glass with low emissivity coatings.
- Experience with design and operation of conveyance systems for substates at high temperatures.
- Thermal modeling experience a plus.
- 5 years of experience commissioning new equipment.
- Experience in Ignition software.
- Deep understanding of manufacturing processes and workflow in a high-volume, highly automated operation.
- 40% travel within Michigan is required annually.
- Experience with data acquisition and analysis from production equipment.
- Experience writing and editing detailed equipment specifications.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams
- Proficient in Microsoft Project.
LuxWall, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.
All applicants must complete and pass a drug screening and background check. LuxWall's process is a 10-panel drug screen which includes marijuana.
