Role Summary 

As our Production Operations Supervisor, you will lead the day-to-day execution of prototype-to-production builds, directly supervising the production associate team on the floor. This is a highly hands-on role—you’ll assign work, unblock issues in real time, ensure production schedules and quality standards are met, and track and approve timecards and labor hours. You’ll coordinate and deliver on-the-job training as needed, helping associates develop the skills required to build complex solid-state power hardware safely, consistently, and efficiently. Your leadership will directly influence product readiness, customer confidence, and the pace at which our solid-state transformer technology moves from development into real-world deployment. 

Responsibilities: 

• Directly supervise production associates supporting prototype-to-production builds, managing daily work assignments, floor coverage, and execution against production schedules. 

• Own day-to-day floor operations, ensuring safety, quality, and productivity standards are met while escalating issues and risks in real time. 

• Track, review, and approve timecards, labor hours, and overtime, supporting labor efficiency and production planning. 

• Ensure quality standards are upheld at every building step, supporting a no-defects-forward mindset and partnering with engineering on issue resolution and corrective actions. 

• Coordinate, deliver, and document on-the-job training for new and existing production associates, ensuring readiness for complex manufacturing and power electronics assembly. 

• Support the development, maintain, and enforce standardized work instructions and SOPs in collaboration with engineering and operations. 

• Monitor daily production metrics and drive continuous improvement in throughput, yield, safety, and cost. 

• Develop and maintain production reports, dashboards, and visual management boards that provide clear visibility to leadership on progress toward production goals, risks, and corrective actions. 

• Create a positive, accountable shop-floor culture through coaching, performance feedback, and corrective action, including addressing performance concerns and administering discipline when necessary. 

• Ensure compliance with EHS requirements, proactively identifying and correcting hazards and reinforcing safe work practices. 

Qualifications: 

• 4+ years of experience in manufacturing or production operations, with at least 2 years in a hands-on supervisory or lead role supporting production associates. 

• Proven experience leading day-to-day floor operations in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, including work assignment and schedule execution. 

• Experience managing labor and timekeeping, including tracking and approving timecards, overtime, and shift coverage. 

• Practical experience applying quality requirements, standardized processes, and structured problem-solving on production floor. 

• Experience coordinating and delivering on-the-job training and coaching production teams through changing processes. 

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to provide clear direction, real-time feedback, and corrective action when required. 

• Ability to track production performance and maintain reports, dashboards, or visual management boards to communicate progress toward production goals. 

• Commitment to safety and EHS best practices in a manufacturing environment. 

• High school diploma or equivalent required. 

Bonus Qualifications: 

• Experience in manufacturing environments such as power electronics, energy systems, automotive, or industrial equipment. 

• Prior involvement in pilot production or new product introduction (NPI) builds. 

• Experience partnering closely with engineering teams to improve manufacturability and production readiness. 

• Experience developing or maintaining standardized work instructions, SOPs, or training documentation. 

• Able to push, pull, and lift up to 50 lbs. 

• Forklift certified 

Please note: This role requires working on-site 5 days a week. We do not offer hybrid or remote options. 

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced Senior Quality Engineer to support solid state transformer production. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing the Quality Management System to enable high quality products and commercialization. You will partner with design, supply chain and manufacturing to develop Amperesand’s quality processes, you will lead regulatory and customer audits to qualify Amperesand as a preferred supplier.  

The Quality Engineer is a professional problem solver, that can make good use of quality techniques to solve quality challenges and develop reliable processes that prevent creation of defects. The Sr. Quality Engineer will work on high quality products that meet the high reliability standards in the electrical grid equipment business. 

Responsibilities:

• Development of processes to meet the ISO9001 standard. 
• Lead customer, regulatory and compliance audits. 
• Development of manufacturing requirements, quality standards, and product quality plans to ensure products meet the expectations of our target customers. 
• Deployment of manufacturing level requirements to subsystems, assemblies & components to ensure a clear focus on design and customer needs. 
• Identification of critical requirements to ensure proper supplier and production focus on critical needs. 
• Lead development of FMEAs (Design & Process) for development teams to identify and address critical risks. 
• Manage and facilitate the root cause & corrective actions system through tracking and validation of issues and support in root cause analysis through facilitating brainstorming, use of lean methodologies, hypothesis testing, design of experiments, etc. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Materials, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent experience. 
• ASQ or Six Sigma certification are preferred. 
• 5+ years of experience in quality, with background in electrical assemblies and/or power electronics.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills are an absolute requirement to establish effective working relationships within Amperesand and its partners. 
• Specific training and demonstrated success in applying design for quality and problem-solving methodologies, FMEA, process capability analysis, hypothesis testing, DoE, SPC, etc. 
• Strong background and demonstrated success applying statistical methods. 
• Minitab, JMP or other statistical software capabilities are preferred. 
• Data mining and database (e.g. MySQL) experience. 
• Excellent oral, written and presentation skills.  

Please note: This role requires working on-site 5 days a week. We do not offer hybrid or remote options. Travel up to 15% of the time to suppliers and customers in the USA and overseas. 

Role Summary

We are seeking an energetic, highly motivated, team-oriented Metrology Technician to be responsible for creating and executing inspection methodologies for electro-mechanical components and subassemblies for Amperesand’s solid state transformers. In this role, you will operate and program metrology equipment on a regular basis. You will inspect parts, provide and ensure accurate measurements and reports on components critical for Amperesand’s manufacturing.   

Responsibilities:

• Enable inspection and verification of parts or assemblies using an arm-CMM and conventional hardware (calipers, gauges, etc.). 

• Create measurement programs using PolyWorks for routine measurements or investigation requests.  

• Provide, check, and analyze data and output reports to assist in quality improvement activities. 

• Coordinate calibration activities, ensure that all test and measurement equipment is calibrated prior to use. 

• Apply Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) best practices across departments. 

• Manage non-conform material identified in inspections. 

• Assist in the identification and resolution of supplier and manufacturing quality issues, contain parts or products as needed, sort parts for quality requirements. 

• Support supplier for corrective action requests, root cause, and implementation of corrective actions and countermeasures. 

• Lead or participate in continuous improvement activities with engineers and external suppliers. 

Qualifications:

• Must be fluent of the English language, both written and verbal. 

• High school diploma. Skilled trades training or degree in mechanical or quality field, or equivalent demonstrated on-job experience. 

• Experience with metrology equipment programing and measurements. 

• Ability to read and interpret basic mechanical drawings (including GD&T). 

• Proficient with Polyworks software, point cloud alignments, laser scanning. 

• Previous electro-mechanical inspection background with the ability to use basic hand measurement tools (calipers, micrometers, thread gauges etc.). 

• Ability to give presentations and prepare technical reports 

• Ability to use IT systems such as Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint. Able to manipulate data in Excel and databases such as SQL. 

Essential Physical Demands 

• Ability to perform physically demanding work for extended periods of time, up to 12 hours a day. 

• Ability to stand and walk for up to 12 hours/day, including over varied and uneven terrain. 

• Frequently and repetitively, lift, push and carry up to 35 lbs. 

• Frequently and repetitively, bend, lift and reach to install parts. 

• Stoop, lay, bend, reach, squat, kneel, crouch, twist and crawl for extended periods of time, including up to 12 hours/day. 

• Ability to find issues in a work process and receive safety signals using sight, touch, and hearing. 

• Wearing Personal Protective Equipment, including but not limited to:  safety glasses, safety shoes, bump caps, arm protection, and adhering to prescribed safety rules and guidelines. 

 Responsibilities:

• Lead Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for X (DFx) , Assembly, Quality, Reliability

• Define and implement robust manufacturing processes, including process sequencing, critical parameter development, and assembly recipes

• Drive quality, repeatability, and throughput in both prototype and production environments.

• Collaborate closely with Design Engineering, NPI, Quality, and Production teams throughout the product lifecycle

• Act as a technical lead to resolve quality and functional issues in production and with contract manufacturers.

• Develop data-driven action plans and root cause analyses to ensure timely resolution and continuous improvement.

• Lead the design and validation of novel prototype tooling and assembly equipment with 3rd third-party equipment builder.

• Collaborate with the equipment design engineer for in-house equipment development.

• Oversee internal and external development of equipment and processes for new product introduction and scale-up.

• Support the ramp-up of production lines, resolving technical issues, optimizing process performance, and ensuring lines meet takt time, yield, and labor efficiency targets.

• Perform line balancing and capacity planning studies to support efficient line layout, equipment utilization, and throughput targets as production scales.

• Maintain comprehensive process documentation, participate in Engineering Change Management

• Drive continuous improvement efforts through data collection, analysis, and feedback loops

• Mentor junior engineers and technicians, manage engineering teams as needed

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical, Manufacturing, or Industrial Engineering (or related field)

• 6+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, with a strong background in DFM, process development, and high-mix or high-volume production

• Hands-on experience with a variety of manufacturing processes (e.g., injection molding, die casting, machining, assembly automation, potting)

• Experience leading large-scale capital equipment design projects.

• Strong background in concept-to-production equipment development.

• Experience in data collection and analysis for process development or applicable process engineering expertise

• Ability to lead cross-functional projects and vendor engagements

• Strong problem-solving skills and a data-driven mindset

• Familiarity with tools such as PFMEA, DOE, root cause analysis, and SPC

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience working in Agile development environments, including task management and sprint planning using Scrum methodologies and tools like Jira.

• Ability to travel up to 20% - 25% including internationally

Bonus Qualifications:

• Proficiency in CAD software (3D EXPERIENCE (3DX), CATIA, NX, SolidWorks, Creo etc.) for designing mechanical assemblies.

• Experience with DFM/DFA (Design for Manufacturing/Assembly) methodologies.

• Solid understanding of GD&T and its impact on manufacturability.

• Knowledge of motion control, pneumatics, hydraulics, and sensors.

• Power Electronics Assembly experience is highly valued from energy, automotive, aerospace, semiconductor, or consumer electronics manufacturing.

• Experience in Industrial Engineering Optimization and Warehouse design

Please note: This role requires working on-site 5 days a week. We do not offer hybrid or remote options.