# Manufacturing Engineer (Onsite/Hybrid)

**Company**: KoBold
**Location**: San Francisco Bay Area
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $110,000-$180,000
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Manufacturing Engineer will be a member of KoBold's Advanced Technology Group (ATG), which develops and deploys new hardware technology to support Kobold's exploration and mine development efforts.

Responsibilities:

- Build Management: Plan and manage hardware builds, from prototype through low-volume production,scheduling, kitting, and coordinating across engineering and vendors.

- Track build status, bills of materials, and part availability to keep builds on schedule.

- Identify and resolve manufacturing bottlenecks and design-for-manufacturability issues in coordination with design engineers.

- Lab & Shop Floor Management: Own the day-to-day operation of the lab and shop floor,layout, equipment, tooling, consumables, and safety.

- Maintain and calibrate shop and test equipment; manage service and maintenance schedules.

- Establish and enforce shop floor practices, workflows, and safety standards.

- Specify and source equipment as needed.

- Receiving & Quality: Own the receiving process,inspection, verification against POs, and intake into inventory.

- Establish incoming and in-process quality checks; track and resolve nonconformances with suppliers.

- Manage returns, rework, and supplier quality issues.

- Supply Chain & Sourcing: Source components and services,identify, qualify, and develop vendors for hardware builds and ATG projects.

- Own vendor relationships and follow-up,drive on-time delivery, resolve issues, and hold suppliers accountable.

- Manage ordering and inventory,place orders, track stock, and keep parts available to support builds.

- Documentation & Documentation Control: Create and maintain build and deployment documentation,work instructions, assembly procedures, test protocols, and deployment guides.

- Establish and own documentation control,revision management, BOM control, and change management for hardware and procedures.

- Ensure documentation stays current as designs evolve and is accessible to the teams building and deploying in the field.

- Equipment Deployment and Field Support: Proactively resolve bottlenecks with Field Ops and Exploration teams to get gear to site.

- Assist with documentation for field deployment - assembly instructions, calibrations, validations.

- Manufacturing Engineering: Provide DFX feedback to in-progress designs of new equipment.

- Resolve technical issues with parts, assemblies, and systems as they are encountered during fabrication, build, assembly, and test.

Qualifications:

- Degree in mechanical, manufacturing, or industrial engineering (or equivalent education/experience).

- 3-5 years in manufacturing, production, or hardware build engineering, ideally in a prototype-to-low-volume environment.

- Hands-on experience managing hardware builds and shop/lab environments.

- Experience with sourcing and vendor development.

- Experience with inventory and materials management.

- Working knowledge of BOM management, revision control, and documentation control practices.

- Strong project management skills,able to track multiple concurrent builds, deadlines, and stakeholders without dropping balls.

- Comfortable working directly with design engineers and translating between design intent and buildable, documented processes.

- Detail-oriented, organized, and self-directed in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

- Proficiency with standard business tools (Google Docs/Sheets).

- Ability to work in an office in Berkeley on a daily basis. Able to travel up to 5-10%.

## Skills

### Required
- hardware build engineering
- manufacturing
- production
- sourcing
- vendor development
- inventory management
- BOM management
- revision control
- documentation control

### Nice to have
- New Product Introduction (NPI)
- MRP/PLM system
- camera and/or sensing systems
- quality management systems
- field-deployed hardware
- international logistics
- machining
- fabrication
- 3D printing

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