Manufacturing Quality Engineer, Energy Storage

About the position

Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling — keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.

Manufacturing Quality Engineer, Energy Storage

Redwood is looking for a highly motivated Quality Engineer with broad experience across incoming quality, process quality, and customer-facing quality activities. A primary objective of this role will be to drive the identification, prioritization, and mitigation of quality risks throughout the operations. Additionally, the Quality Engineer is expected to support the development, deployment, and active improvement of critical quality system elements.

Responsibilities

• Develop process and product quality standards and quality plans to ensure products will consistently meet the expectations of our customers
• Lead the development of Design Failure Mode and Effects Analyses (DFMEAs) and Process Failure Mode and Effects Analyses (PFMEAs), along with Process Control Plans and test/inspection procedures, to identify, prioritize, and mitigate product and process quality risks
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement critical quality processes and to achieve quality objectives
• Execute process and product quality readiness tasks for production ramp-up
• Ensure quality standards are developed, communicated, and upheld for all actions related to manufacturing the product
• Lead cross-functional problem-solving teams to facilitate swift and effective issue resolution, including root cause investigations using quality tools and the development, implementation, and validation of corrective and preventive actions
• Work closely with the quality systems team to follow standards and processes

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree: in Engineering or a related technical field
• 3+ years: of experience in a quality role
• Knowledge and experience: leading structured problem-solving methodologies
• Experience: developing and using quality tools as well as other quality system elements
• Adept: with process data acquisition and quality analysis tools
• Proficiency: in statistical methods and ability to apply them
• Excellent: written and verbal communication skills
• Ability: to execute with a calm and collaborative urgency

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with power electronics or battery technologies
• A passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!