Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Tooling

Join Energy Recovery and Help Build a Sustainable Future

At Energy Recovery, we build products that help limit global temperature rise, reduce carbon emissions, provide safe drinking water for millions of people, and bring efficiency and sustainability to a range of industries. Our products help customers avoid approximately 19.7 million metric tons of carbon emissions per year -- equivalent to removing over 4.7 million cars from the road!

In addition to innovating world-class products that help our customers and the environment, our employees enjoy a diverse, collaborative work culture, as well as extensive company benefits that support the overall wellbeing of our staff. This includes everything from generous health plans and time off, paid family leave, subsidized lunches and company events, and opportunities for charitable giving and volunteering in the community.

What You Can Look Forward To:

Energy Recovery, Inc. is seeking a qualified candidate for an immediate Full-time job opening for the position of Senior Manufacturing/Tooling Engineer, with the Advanced Process & Manufacturing Engineering team in the San Leandro, CA facility. This position is responsible for ideating, designing and implementing effective manufacturing processes and techniques to produce Energy Recovery's energy recovery devices and other fluid machinery products for diverse industrial markets.

In addition, the candidate will be POC for specific processes and will own the process yield, technical specifications, procedures, tools and process improvement projects for those processes. A suitable candidate will have prior experience in an industrial manufacturing environment with CNC machining, grinding, assembly lines, chemical processing, material handling and heat treatment operations.

What Will You Do?

* Lead all activities related to manufacturing including fabrication, assembly, process automation, testing, quality & warranty evaluation involving centrifugal turbines, pumps, energy recovery devices and integrated systems operating in severe conditions including corrosive, abrasive, erosive & high pressure environments

* Drive manufacturing reviews to optimize processes for existing products as well as establish state-of-art & cost effective techniques for new products involving medium-volume industrial products, subassemblies and individual components

* Interface on regular basis with cross-functional teams including design engineering, application engineering, sales and technical service

* Evaluate processes and operations to standardize and automate using assist tools, robotics solutions and fixtures wherever they are relevant.

* Ensure commercial success and quality of products by applying contemporary process optimization methodologies such as Design for Manufacturability, Design for Assembly, Design for Cost, statistical analysis and design optimization

* Steer the manufacturing group via creation of assembly and test fixture designs and documentation, technical qualification of suppliers, evaluation and qualification of manufacturing methodologies etc.

* Leverage technical background and understanding of engineering fundamentals for specification of off-the-shelf hardware, components and raw materials

* Assist in development and building of equipment and apparatus for prototype evaluation, performance and accelerated life testing

* Participate in supplier evaluation, gauge R&R studies, quality audits, RMAs and warranty claims

What You Bring to the Table:

* Bachelor's Degree or higher in Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineering or a closely related field

* 5 - 10 years of experience in a design and manufacturing environment preferably focusing on rotating equipment and auxiliaries in Industrial/ Aerospace/Automotive/Oil & Gas or related industries

* High competency in interpretation of drawings, engineering standards, GD&T methodologies, tolerance stack-up, manufacturing processes, etc.

* High level of technical competency in the fundamentals of manufacturing techniques, mechanical engineering design and analysis

* Demonstrated application of modern engineering tools as well as sound judgment to create innovative solutions to…