Heron Power is a startup company building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. We aim to debottleneck the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and less costly hardware solutions, accelerating the electrification of everything.
Our first goal is to build better converters (inverters & rectifiers) to connect large-scale renewables, storage, and loads to the grid. Heron's leadership team is made up of seasoned veterans who have designed and shipped gigawatts of power conversion products over the past decade.
Job Overview
How You Will Contribute
Lead line development across multiple process and equipment technologies through concept, build and into ramp.
Develop and scale processes for thermal interface materials, thermal gap fillers, pottants, and associated dispense, conveyance, and handling systems.
Develop surface treatment processes for plastics and metals (including plasma/corona treatment, solvent/chemical cleaning, and adhesion preparation.
Specify and qualify advanced joining processes such as ultrasonic welding, laser welding/brazing, vibration welding, and more.
Lead development with equipment suppliers and OEMs from equipment concept and process design phase all the way through FAT/SAT, commissioning, validation and handoffs for lab, pilot and mass production applications.
Specify, commission and optimize production-scale manufacturing equipment for high-speed assembly lines.
Implement electrical and other in-line inspection systems to monitor and/or control quality of your processes and equipment along with their validation workflows.
Characterize material behavior and define robust process windows via DoE's.
Apply PFMEA, control plans, SPC methodology and structured problem solving to maintain world class process capability.
Support automation integration with robots, conveyors and inline QA.
Requirements
We have a short list of must-have requirements. We prioritize a strong grip on first principles, hands-on skills, and a sense of initiative. Domain-specific knowledge and experience will help determine the career level for each hire.
Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing/Industrial/Mechanical/Electrical/Chemical Engineering.
7+ years of experience in industrial automation, chemical handling, electromechanical assembly or related high-volume manufacturing processes.
Understanding of creepage/clearance, sealing of enclosures, adhesives and machine interfaces.
Ability to characterize and optimize key process variables for chemical handling systems and translate those variables into clear equipment design requirements.
Proficiency in statistical analysis, SPC, Cp/Cpk studies, hypothesis testing and Minitab/JMP
Demonstrated ability to run DoE's and optimize complex processes
Experience implementing PFMEA's, control plans, process flow diagrams
Hands-on experience with automation, robotics, PLCs and vision systems
Familiarity with GD&T, tolerance stack-ups and precision assembly
Knowledge of root cause methodologies (8D, DMAIC, fishbone/Ishikawa etc)
If you are passionate about technology and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you. Join us in accelerating the electrification of everything at Heron Power.
Heron Power provides competitive compensation (salary and equity) and benefits. The salary for this role ranges from $150,000 to $200,000 per year.
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