Senior Quality Manager

Company Overview

Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless technology with near-zero NOx emissions.

Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion.

Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.

We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:

• Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.

• Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.

• Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.

Mainspring is based in Menlo Park and has partnered with top-tier investors and utilities such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, NextEra, and American Electric Power. More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com.

Responsibilities

While at Mainspring we are growing rapidly to scale production of our linear generators, quality is a crucial element to the success of our mission. This role is critical as we expand our fleet of linear generators and we need to accelerate the pace of learning while keeping our customers happy. You will collaborate closely with field operations and maintenance, engineering, manufacturing, and customer success teams to establish and maintain best-in-class quality practices. This role is ideal for someone with a strategic mindset, a hands-on approach, and a passion for clean energy innovation.

• Become an expert of every step of the process from manufacturing, End of Line Testing to shipping and then commissioning for customer acceptance so to integrate best quality practices

• Lead continual improvement across the entire process using Lean, Six Sigma or other proven methodologies and communicate them to the cross functional team in a structured way based on company priorities

• Develop and monitor quality metrics, ensuring customer feedback is incorporated into continuous improvement efforts

• Build and mentor a high-performing quality team including manufacturing quality and field quality to support the company’s rapid growth

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Quality Management or related

• 7 years in Quality Management, preferably customer facing and in clean energy, manufacturing or hardware organizations (industrial and/or automotive a plus)

• Knowledge and experience with implementing APQP, PPAP and Root Cause Analysis

• Six Sigma, Lean, or ASQ Certification and trainings are preferred

• The position will require up to 30% travel to customer and manufacturing sites

Must-Haves

• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills

• You are highly organized, detail oriented, communicative, and you know what operational excellence looks like because you have seen it first hand

• You possess a healthy customer obsession because you learned that delivering results to them is key to success

• You can thrive in structured and unstructured environments and are not dissuaded at the prospect of making hard decisions about what is important and urgent against a backdrop of limited resources

• Numbers and details are your best “friends” because you learned that when you pay attention to them you drive improvement and reduce risk

• You relentlessly seek balance between quality and speed of execution no matter how tough a situation is because you know that you can’t compromise either

The Bay Area salary for this role is $160k - $190k base pre-IPO stock options benefits. This position is on-site in Menlo Park, CA. The salary will be adjusted based on the experience of the employee.

Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.

Salary : $160,000 - $190,000