Manufacturing Engineer - NPI & IndustrializationFull-time, onsite | Houston, Texas | Frequent domestic travel to partner sites; periodic travel to Nyon, Switzerland
We are establishing our US manufacturing operations in Houston, Texas. We are seeking Manufacturing Engineers to industrialize our products in the US - transferring proven process from our Swiss operations, standing up manual stack assembly, commissioning our roll-to-roll production equipment, and working alongside the packaging partners who will integrate our systems. This is a hands-on, build-it role for engineers who want to put a factory on the ground rather than inherit one.
Key Responsibilities- Serve as the on-site engineering presence at packaging and integration partner facilities - reviewing build plans against our design, resolving producibility issues in real time, and supporting first-article builds
- Own design-for-manufacture feedback between partner sites, US operations and the engineering team in Nyon
- Develop, validate and mature work instructions, process documentation and routings for US operations, in line with the EH quality management system
- Lead the transfer of the process of record from Nyon to Houston - including tooling, fixtures, layouts, cycle-time balancing and operator training material
- Deploy and commission the manual stack assembly line in the US, building on proven Swiss process and learning
- Deploy and commission roll-to-roll production equipment in the US, working alongside the equipment supplier through installation, acceptance testing and process qualification
- Establish process windows, capability studies and control plans; qualify processes to the point of repeatable, conforming output
- Specify tooling, fixtures, jigs and automation equipment with suppliers
- Troubleshoot production, quality and equipment issues on the floor; drive root cause and corrective action
- Support supplier quality and certification activities with the necessary process data and documentation
- Drive OEE, throughput, yield and cost-reduction improvements using Lean methods
- Support safe working practice and EHS compliance in all process and equipment design
Skills and Experience Required- BSc/MSc in manufacturing, mechanical, mechatronic or industrial engineering is mandatory
- Minimum 5-8 years of manufacturing engineering experience in an assembly or automation environment
- Demonstrated experience installing, commissioning and qualifying production equipment - not only specifying it
- Experience writing work instructions and process documentation in a controlled quality system (ISO 9001 or equivalent)
- Experience working at or with external manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers or system integrators
- Working knowledge of Lean manufacturing, line balancing, process validation and statistical process control
- Proficiency with CAD and ERP systems
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity in a start-up environment; able to work autonomously with internal and external experts
- Willing to travel frequently to partner sites within the US, and to Switzerland for extended periods during process transfer (expect 30-50% travel in the first year)
- Excellent spoken and written English is mandatory
- Must have existing authorization to work in the United States
Desirable- Experience with web handling, coating, converting or other roll-to-roll processes
- Experience in fuel cell, battery, electrolyzer or comparable electrochemical manufacturing
- Experience taking a product from prototype through first production at a new site
- Exposure to UL, CSA or CE certification processes
- French or German language ability
What We Offer- The opportunity to build a manufacturing operation from the ground up, rather than optimize an existing one
- Direct ownership of process and equipment decisions, with access to the engineering team that designed the product
- A small, fast-moving team where the work you do is visible in the product
Start date: ImmediatelyOnly candidates selected for interview will be contacted.
