Senior Staff Contract Manufacturing Manager, Operations

Job Description

Job Description

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

The Senior Staff Contract Manufacturing Manager, Operations is responsible for developing and managing relationships with contract manufacturing partner(s) to support Mainspring's growth in manufacturing volume and production. The role involves sourcing, qualifying and developing a cost-effective partner, executing commercial agreements, and developing long-term strategies to improve the partnership. This role will also be responsible for ensuring manufacturing performance, cost objectives, capacity and quality goals are met or exceeded.

In partnership with cross-functional teams, this role will create an efficient and innovative supply chain that delivers cost reduction, long term business continuity, compliance, and working capital improvements. They will also lead projects to improve the CM’s financial planning, tracking, and control processes. Additionally, the Manager will provide support for financial analyses and decision-making related to capital investments, pricing, contract negotiations, inventory / working capital and other significant cash and cost elements.

Develop and maintain strong relationships with key contract manufacturer(s) to drive supply chain strategy, ensure efficient and cost-effective production and meet future growth.

Lead budgeting, financial planning, forecasting, and reporting for your areas of responsibility.

Develop and continually update an operating system and processes to provide real-time insight and control over contract manufacturer’s spending.

Oversee cost variances, identify root causes, and drive cost improvements. Manage periodic reviews of COGS for budgeting and forecasting and other Manufacturing performance metrics. Negotiate costs, and drive cost reduction.

Project manage and facilitate key initiatives involving stakeholders from Mainspring and the contract manufacturer to drive improvement and scale / ramp readiness for both companies.

Partner with Engineering, Quality and New Product Introduction teams to ensure that all contract manufacturers meet the company's product, quality, safety, regulatory compliance, and contractual requirements.

Negotiate and maintain comprehensive commercial agreements, contracts, amendments, and renewals with contract manufacturers, aligning with the business strategy.

Ensure selected contract manufacturer(s) are remaining competitive and continually review options to drive the best long-term partners for Mainspring.

Qualifications

A Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering discipline or equivalent including supply chain, accounting, economics, business, or finance

At least 10 years experience in a supply chain organization with a proven track record of contract manufacturer and supplier evaluation, selection, contract negotiation, and global supply base management

Deep understanding of contracting concepts and issues in the Contract Manufacturing industry including indemnity, warranty, performance guarantees, and liquidated damages.

A proven negotiator with strong experience in cost engineering, should-cost modeling,

Proven experience with planning and monitoring budgets, forecasts, and expenditures for major or multi-year projects and / or programs

Ability to work in different systems / sources with large datasets and ability to use data-driven decision-making. Comfortable working in detailed financial and / or quantitative analysis using Excel, Google Sheets, and analytical tools / systems.

Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.

Preferred qualifications include :

Master's degree in a technical or engineering field (or equivalent), or MBA

Cost accounting for manufacturing businesses.

Experience in lean manufacturing, automated assembly processes, Six Sigma and LEAN certification.

Experience with ERP / MRP systems, and data analysis and visualization tools, such as Excel, SQL databases, Python, Tableau, or Power BI.

Experience with evaluating and improving manufacturing performance and effectively managing contract manufacturer relationships to drive innovation, quality, and costs to support company objectives.

Previous experience leading large-scale and complex, strategic negotiations.

The Bay Area salary for this role is $150k - $185k base salary pre-IPO stock options benefits. This position is on-site (hybrid) 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 : $150,000 - $185,000