Senior Mechanical Engineer – Continuous Improvement for Mechanical Design & Quality Control

About Mainspring

Mainspring Energy manufactures and delivers fuel-flexible, low-emissions local power solutions that rapidly add new capacity and deliver reliable, affordable, and sustainable electric power. The company began commercial shipments of its Mainspring Linear Generators in 2020 and today has hundreds of megawatts in advanced development and field operations for leading Fortune 500 companies, data centers, and utilities. Mainspring also partners with global energy leaders including AEP, NextEra Energy Resources, Schneider Electric, and more.

The core values that ground our work, guide our decisions, and connect us together:

Pragmatic Optimism

Excellence without Ego

Proactive Collaboration

Job Overview

Do you have a knack for design of complex mechanical systems? Have you ever invented a tool or changed a process just to make routine installation or service faster and easier? If you're driven by solving real-world design challenges, especially within state of the art mechanical power generation equipment, then this role is built for you.

Mainspring Energy is seeking a Continuous Improvement Engineer with a focus on mechanical design to lead product improvement efforts across our field and production systems. You will work on-site at a contract manufacturer, addressing design and manufacturing issues at their root. You will redesign critical components for durability and ease of service, integrate your findings back into the development process to ensure the long-term reliability and manufacturability of our products. You will support manufacturing with a hands-on approach to solve complex mechanical problems working directly with the product to take measurement, perform testing, and support pilot efforts to develop rework/retrofit processes.

You will redesign critical components for durability and ease of service, and integrate your findings back into the development process to ensure the long-term reliability and manufacturability of our products.