Romeo Power (NYSE: RMO) is on a mission to power the world’s transition to electrification. This is part of our bold vision to create a world where energy poverty no longer exists. As an energy technology leader delivering advanced electrification solutions for complex commercial vehicle applications, we seek to attract the most curious minds to help us drive real change and create a more sustainable future.
As a company, we’re continually innovating to challenge what’s possible. We believe in transparency and teamwork. With a long-term mindset, we take solution-driven approaches. We thrive on solving the hardest problems and we celebrate our successes as a team. We’re diverse, inclusive and share a passion for making access to clean energy universal as we drive towards a democratically energized world. 

Founded in 2016, Romeo Power is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Our suite of advanced hardware, combined with our innovative battery management system, delivers the safety, performance, reliability and configurability our customers need to succeed. Romeo Power’s 113,000 square-foot manufacturing facility brings its flexible design and development process inhouse to pack the most energy dense battery systems on the market.

Position Overview

The NPI Project Engineer, within the Production Control Department, will be responsible for the successful initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of a New Product Introduction through the manufacturing planning process. The successful candidate must have a combination of skills including an ability to ask penetrating questions, root out and mitigate risk, detect unstated assumptions and resolve conflicts, as well as manage a product lifecycle. This candidate will interface with Program Managers, Engineering, Manufacturing, and other groups under the direction of the NPI manager to develop new product implementation.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Interfaces directly with customer facing Program Managers, Production Planners, and other stakeholders to develop the lifecycle of a new product.
• Direct the effort to define the project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Create and maintain project schedule and milestone tracking, serving as the gatekeeper to phased production ramp up.
• Works with production planners, program managers, and data analysts to identify capacity and growth of new product and to drive cost reduction initiatives.
• Apply multiple project management methods and skills to tailor the execution of projects with various scope and implementation plans
• Develops, implements, monitors, and continuously improves new production processes, tooling, testing, sourcing, and process control while ensuring manufacturing capability and efficiency.
• Applies lean manufacturing methodologies to design, layout, and workflow of new assembly lines and work cells for new products.

Additional Responsibilities

• Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress.
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs.
• Coordinate internal and third parties/vendors resources for the project tasks.
• Ensure that all project deliveries are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget.
• Ensure allocation and availability of resources.

Education and Experience

• Requires a 4-year degree in Manufacturing Engineering or a closely related field.
• 5+ years of work experience in Product Development, New Product Introduction or Manufacturing Engineering. Additional experience may be substituted for part of the education requirement, or advanced degree can be substituted for experience.

The ideal candidate will possess these skills:

• Experience working on New Product Introduction, design prototyping and troubleshooting.
• Experience with NPI processes (process qualifications/validations, First Articles, Design of Experiments and engineering change requests, etc.).
• Manufacturing and Process Engineering experience developing and implementing new manufacturing processes and supporting mid volume production (ECNs, BOMs, work instructions, equipment/tooling/fixture/test development, troubleshooting).
• Experience with Robotics and Automation, Electronic, Safety, and/or Electromechanical testing.
• Knowledge of plant layout design and assembly line layout design for efficient workflow.
• Knowledge of MRP/ERP systems, PLM/PDM product management systems and 3D CAD Systems.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work on, manage and drive multiple projects at once, individually or with teams.
• Demonstrated ability to understand engineering documentation and communicate technical data and specifications.

Romeo Power is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.