Fleet Operations & Analytics Engineer (East Coast)
Vineland, NJ
O&M - Operations and Maintenance – O&M - Operations and Maintenance /
Salary /
Remote
Company Overview
Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless technology with near-zero NOx emissions.
Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion.
Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.
We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:
Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.
Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.
Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.
More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com
Job Overview
The Linear Generator is a sophisticated, automated, and integrated system spanning a wide range of engineering disciplines including thermodynamics, mechanical, electrical, software, and controls. As a founding member of our Operations & Analytics Team, you will be part of a dynamic group that delivers the best product and experience that Mainspring Energy has to offer. This includes operation and monitoring of our fleet of Linear Generators (LGens), debugging issues, management of incident resolution and advanced data analysis aimed at improving our product and communicating on our fleet performance.
This is a foundational role in a newly developing company function and there is an enormous opportunity to influence how this work is done now and into the future. The breadth of this role is perfect for an engineer who wants to use their advanced analytical and technical skills in a fast-paced and challenging environment. We are looking for an ambitious and curious individual excited to work at the interface of operations, systems engineering, and analytics. In order to support our 24/7/365 operations, we are prioritizing this role for those who are interested in the possibility of working at least one weekend day as part of their normal work schedule (Tues - Sat or Sun - Thur).
Responsibilities
- Manage operations of the rapidly growing Mainspring Energy LGen fleet. That work includes remote operation, troubleshooting and leading incident resolution
- Be a critical member in a cross-functional team that will design, implement and make use of our monitoring and communication platform.
- Deliver regular, high-quality analytics to the Service, Engineering, and Sales Teams on:
- Fleet availability, performance, and connectivity
- NERC metrics and compliance
- Biggest opportunities for improvements
- Issues and resolutions
- Deliver high-quality data reports to customers and regulatory agencies
- Improve automation through the development of necessary tools
- Collaborate with the Operations & Maintenance team to optimally schedule and execute planned and unplanned service activities
- Enjoy exposure to company-wide activities including quality assurance, test engineering, reliability, product validation and software development
- Help identify and train new team members for the rapidly growing business unit
Qualifications
- BS in engineering discipline
- Demonstrated ability to resolve complex troubleshooting problems and independently make right decisions under high pressure situations
- Previous experience with an appetite for systems engineering (electro-mechanical, mechatronics, energy systems)
- Experience with data engineering or data analytics e.g., time-series data, cloud tools, dashboards, industry standard tools, or custom tools of your own
- Demonstrated interest and ability in development of automated software tools and processes (Python preferred)
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain highly disciplined operations and training processes
$95,000 - $108,000 a year
This position is remote. The salary will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as the experience of the employee. Along with the base salary, Mainspring offers pre-IPO stock options + benefits.
Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.
In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.
