Director, Electrical Strategic Sourcing

🕒 June 12

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $188.2k - $221.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🛒 Procurement

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Mainspring Energy

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2010

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Manufacturing • Logistics • Consulting

Mainspring Energy is a pioneering energy technology company that develops high-efficiency power generation solutions. Their flagship product, the Mainspring Linear Generator, delivers reliable local power at any scale and is designed for flexibility to utilize increasingly cleaner fuels as they become available. Mainspring is committed to advancing the energy landscape by promoting local power generation, enhancing resilience, and reducing carbon emissions, all while providing cost-effective solutions for a diverse range of applications, including commercial, industrial, and utility projects.

📋 Description

• Build, manage, and develop a team of commodity managers and sourcing program managers; establish a management layer as the function scales • Own the departmental budget, headcount plan, organizational sourcing policies, and process standards • Serve as the supply chain escalation point to executive leadership • Reconcile competing priorities across Engineering, Finance, Legal, and Operations • Partner with Engineering and Product Management in the product roadmap process • Contribute supply chain input to feature definition across deployment environments • Own DFM and DFX to ensure manufacturability, sourcing optionality, and cost competitiveness in designs from early NPI • Set and execute commodity strategy, including make/buy frameworks, preferred supplier lists, and risk tiering • Develop and implement inbound logistics and procurement strategy for the electrical commodity portfolio • Support MRP/ERP system development and align procurement parameters with supply chain strategy • Own sourcing strategy for Mainspring’s AC-to-DC product transition, including BOM-level lead time analysis, risk buy decisions, and production readiness • Source and qualify inverters, transformers, and skidded systems across multiple suppliers • Own and execute a multi-path battery and BMS sourcing strategy compliant with FEOC and IRA requirements • Monitor FEOC, IRA/ITC, USMCA, and tariff developments and brief executive leadership • Identify, evaluate, and onboard contract manufacturers for electrical assemblies in the US/Mexico • Lead rapid-turnaround sourcing for R&D electrical builds, including PCBAs, connectors, cables, sensors, and electromechanical assemblies • Own should-cost modeling and lead cost-down initiatives with annual savings targets • Negotiate contracts from R&D quick-turn through long-term volume agreements • Own supplier risk assessments, SPOF mitigation planning, and business continuity for critical commodities

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Supply Chain, or equivalent technical discipline • 20+ years across electrical engineering, operations, and supply chain • At least 3–5 years managing sourcing teams • Experience contributing to organizational sourcing policy and process standards • Deep technical knowledge of power electronics, PCBAs (SMT/through-hole/mixed), connectors, cable assemblies, and battery/energy storage systems • Experience onboarding contract manufacturers for electromechanical assemblies (US/Mexico preferred) • Familiarity with MRP/ERP systems and inbound logistics • Proven best-total-cost commodity strategy, including multi-source qualification, cost-down programs, working capital improvement, and supplier risk management • Executive presence and ability to reconcile competing stakeholder views, negotiate at senior management level, and own a departmental budget • Familiarity with FEOC, IRA/ITC, USMCA, and UL/IEC compliance-driven sourcing environments • Willingness to travel up to 40% (domestic US and Mexico; occasional international) • Nice to have: Experience in energy storage, battery, or distributed power generation • Nice to have: Working knowledge of IRA battery sourcing requirements and FEOC country-of-origin tracing • Nice to have: Familiarity with UL 9540, UL 1973, UL 508a, or IEC 62619 safety certification frameworks • Nice to have: Prior experience in a hardware startup or high-growth manufacturing environment • Nice to have: Six Sigma or LEAN certification

🏖️ Benefits

• Pre-IPO stock options • Benefits • Remote work