Location: Full-Time Onsite in Littleton or Boulder, Colorado 

About Emporia Energy

Emporia Energy is accelerating the energy transition by helping small commercial and residential consumers save up to 50% on their utility bills. We combine automated energy management tools, real-time 24/7 energy monitoring with Utility rate schedules and wholesale energy prices to give our customers true insight into how they are using and spending money on energy. Our Smart Outlets, EV chargers, home batteries, and cloud integrations to thermostat and EV APIs allow us to reduce pollution, shift usage to less expensive times, and save our customers money.  

About the Role

At Emporia, hardware products are the tip of the spear—attracting customers, fueling data analytics, and enabling demand response through integration with Emporia’s energy management platform. We provide our customers with reliable, high-value-add products at mainstream pricing.  Emporia is seeking an experienced Hardware Operations Program Manager, Sustaining(OPM) to lead sustaining and continuous improvement activities across all hardware products. The OPM will coordinate with multiple disciplines internally and with external partners to ensure continuous production at our overseas contract manufacturers, supply chain continuity, and product quality standards.  The ideal profile of this position calls for a flexible and well-rounded individual—someone who is self-motivated, detailed oriented, collaborative, and has a breadth of technical understanding in Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain. 

Responsibilities

  • Own the relationship with our overseas contract manufacturers to execute the production plan to meet sales demand and ensure on-time delivery and high-quality results.
  • Coordinate and support all on-going manufacturing production activities including manufacturing process improvements, cost-reduction opportunities, and second source opportunities.
  • Work closely with Engineering to guide development, validation, and implementation of product refreshes or redesigns.  
  • Work with Engineering to support the efforts in our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tool. Support the process for ECO, Deviation, MCO, and other such changes as required and work to ensure all changes are properly implemented at our partners.
  • Work with the Product team to manage end of life (EOL) planning and transitions for existing products.  Goal is to eliminate all excess materials at EOL.
  • Be proactive, pay attention to the details, and ensure you are enabling teams across different functions to make smart and timely decisions.   This includes working with the Product, Marketing, Business Development, Engineering, Compliance, and finance teams in the support of all production released products.
  • Create reports from several company systems including Google and/or Microsoft tools and provide reports as needed. 
  • Emporia is a startup, therefor this role requires you to “wear many hats” and this description does not capture all assignments completely.

Qualifications

  • BS or higher in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing & Operations Engineering or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in Operations Program Management roles in the consumer electronics industry.
  • Experience in successfully leading products into mass production and through end of life (EOL), including on-site factory experience.  Including experience working with overseas contract manufacturers and suppliers.
  • Ability to travel approximately 25% of your time to contract manufacturing partners and suppliers.
  • Self-motivated team member who can drive resolution to issues with strong problem-solving skills.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

 

This position has been filled.