Production Supervisor
Mainspring Energy
Product, People & HR, Operations
Menlo Park, CA, USA
Posted on Jun 3, 2025
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
As a Production Supervisor at Mainspring Energy you will serve as a leader to deliver on test support requests, prototype builds and assembly retrofits that further our exciting and unique product. You will build and supervise a cohesive group of Production Associates and through positive engagement of your coworkers you will ensure that we accelerate our Upgrades build efforts and deliver on our plan.
Responsibilities
- At our fast paced Upgrades facility in Menlo Park you will be heavily involved in applying the latest engineering changes to our product and will be hands-on in delivering on the production and O&M support schedule through teamwork. Key responsibilities include:
- Setting and achieving daily/weekly/monthly O&M support and production deliverables to meet schedule demand
- Monitor key process indicators to resolve issues before they impact company milestones
- Work hand-in-hand with Technical Operations team members to coordinate and optimize production workflow
- Provide direction and leadership to Upgrades associates
- Identify opportunities and drive solutions to improve efficiency
- Actively pursue the resources needed to ensure your team’s success
- Work collaboratively with the Upgrades leadership team to balance resources and achieve team goals
- Above all ensure a safe work environment is maintained at all times through active monitoring and through constant solicitation of continuous improvement ideas
Qualifications
- 5 to 7 years of supervisory experience in an Upgrades / manufacturing environment
- Experience in setting up manufacturing processes as well as identifying and monitoring key process indicators
- Working knowledge and experience in applying Lean manufacturing concepts and tools
- Minimum High School Diploma; Bachelor’s Degree in a technical engineering or relevant field is preferred
- Must be an effective communicator with solid collaboration and interpersonal skills and proven success working cross functionally at all levels
- Comfortable using Google or Microsoft documents and spreadsheets or equivalent.
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.