Job Description

**Role: Manufacturing Engineer

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**Location: Houston, TXType: FTE – Permanent

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**Key Responsibilities

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• 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 Client’s 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

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• 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)

**Desirable

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• 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

You should be proficient in:

• OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing)
• Troubleshooting Industrial Automation Equipment
• Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
• Lean Manufacturing Principles
• ISO 9001 Certification Experience
• Experience in a Manufacturing Environment
• Battery
• Design-for-Manufacture
• electrolyzer
• fuel cell
• Lean Manufacturing
• Process Validation
• comparable electrochemical manufacturing

Machines & technologies you'll use:

• Manual Stack Assembly Line
• Production Equipment
• Automation Equipment