Staff Supply Chain Engineer – Molten Salts

🕒 October 8

💵 $130k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔗 Supply Chain

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

⚡ Energy

🔬 Science

🏛️ Government

Energy • Science • Government

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is the world's largest and leading commercial fusion energy company, focused on accelerating the arrival of commercial fusion energy. The company utilizes revolutionary high-temperature superconducting magnets, developed in collaboration with MIT, to create smaller and lower-cost tokamak fusion systems. Their flagship project, SPARC, is a net energy fusion machine that will pave the way for the first fusion power plant, called ARC. Commonwealth Fusion Systems is committed to designing, building, and scaling fusion power plants to deliver cost-competitive, clean energy, aimed at combating climate change.

📋 Description

• Partner with suppliers to improve quality, delivery, manufacturing, and inventory performance • Conduct new supplier audits and review technical quality documentation • Conduct onsite supplier visits for problem-solving, root cause analysis, cross-functional resolution, and development • Manage quality issues and Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs) • Support procurement and engineering activities, including quality control, defining quality and technical requirements, supplier selection, and supplier relationship management • Develop and implement reliability improvements in designs and manufacturing • Provide technical reviews and advice on drawings, specifications, and material requirements • Collaborate with engineers, manufacturing, design, operations, subject matter experts, and technicians to solve material and processing challenges • Identify process gaps, define corrective actions, and hold vendors accountable to timelines • Facilitate PFMEA and applicable APQP processes • Support manufacturing instructions documenting quality-critical characteristics • Spend extended periods onsite at vendors and participate in supplier plant start-ups • Project-manage new production line and plant launches as the molten salt supply chain scales • Expedite new molten salt production lines and plants according to CFS business needs • Adhere to supply chain, procurement, intellectual property, and export compliance policies • Develop quality signals and processes with production operations, inspection, shipping/receiving, and engineering teams • Drive improvements to system reliability, manufacturability, and efficiency • Lead supplier quality failure investigations and mitigate root causes • Identify risk-reduction and design/process simplification opportunities • Review acceptance and qualification of new supplier capabilities • Monitor supplier capabilities for unknown risks and resolve issues • Assess supplier-process changes and cross-functional impacts

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in the field of Engineering • 6+ years’ related work experience in a manufacturing • Experience with chemical plants • Supplier management experience • Deep manufacturing, industrial engineering, process expertise, and ability to learn new parts and systems quickly • Experience performing Supplier Assessments & Audits, including Quality Management Systems such as ISO 9001, AS 9100, and IATF 16949 • Experience with PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plan, MSA, capacity analysis, and Lean Six Sigma initiatives • Ability to design, establish, and implement supplier quality improvement processes and procedures • Technical knowledge of 2D blueprints and model drawings • Knowledge of supplier quality processes, including PPAP, APQP, first article inspection reports, supplier relationship management, coordination, and communication • Ability to perform activities such as typing, standing, or sitting for extended periods • Willingness to travel or work required nights, weekends, or on-call regularly • Ability to work in a facility containing industrial hazards, including heat, cold, noise, fumes, strong magnets, lead, high voltage, high current, pressure systems, and cryogenics • Creative negotiating, communication, collaboration, prioritization, customer service, problem-solving, judgment, and ability to work under pressure

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation with equity • 13 Company-wide Holidays • Flexible vacation days • 10 sick days • Generous parental leave policy • Health, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) with employer matching • Professional growth opportunities • Team-building activities

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