Senior Operational Excellence Engineer

Natron Energy is seeking an experienced Six Sigma Black Belt for a Senior Operational Excellence Engineer. This role will lead the team in data analytics for high-volume manufacturing and process control.  
The Senior Operational Excellence Engineer will be responsible to drive process capability and improvement through statistical analysis, team training and mentoring, and indirect leadership. This role will engage with the process engineering, quality, operations, and data reliability teams to implement best practices for process optimization, Six Sigma, SPC, and cause-effect correlation.

Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years in engineering, operations, or quality roles.
• 5+ years in a focused Six Sigma Black Belt role with minimum of (10) Six Signa projects completed using DMAIC methodology.
• Deep expertise in manufacturing and process capability, root cause analysis, SPC, data analysis for continuous improvement, and quality control.
• Extensive experience in structured DOE planning and execution.
• Measurement System analysis including Gage R&R, Calibration Methods, and analysis of related factors such as Bias, Linearity, Correlation, and Precision to Tolerance.
• Experience using MES systems to data mine and uncover process change events, root causes, statistical shifts in process performance, and correlations across processing areas.
• Knowledgeable in the use of MES systems to automate SPC, Control Charts, Run Charts, and related automated reporting.
• Expertise with root cause methodologies such as Kepner-Tregoe, 5-Why, Ishikawa, and similar.
• Experience with development and launch of new products and processes, and the related validation and report-out of process capability (cpk).
• Demonstrated Experience using Jmp Correlation Analysis Toolkit.
• Ability to create quality control sampling plans for both initial launch (safe launch) and steady state manufacturing.
• Strong influential leadership skills.
• Expertise in facilitating engineering and operations teams through DMAIC projects.
• Experience in training team members to achieve Green Belt certification.
• Excellent strategic agility, analytical, problem-solving skills with ability to work seamlessly between strategic and tactical focuses.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field.
• ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, other external certification considered.

Logistics:

• This is an in-person role working out of Holland, MI 49423
• Employees must work onsite in Holland, MI; some work-from-home privileges is negotiable
• Compensation is competitive with local engineering positions

About Us: Natron Energy (natron.energy) is the future of energy storage. Natron Energy’s battery products solve operations performance and reliability problems for the world’s biggest electricity customers. Natron Energy’s initial products target markets exceeding $25B including data centers, oil & gas, EV fast charging, and commercial aviation. Natron Energy has additional products in development for >$50B markets including commercial and residential grid storage. Its products are based on sodium-ion cells containing Prussian blue electrodes that deliver unique power, cycle life, and safety: full discharge and recharge in just minutes and up to 50,000 deep discharge cycles from a nonflammable, fault-tolerant system. Natron Energy’s current production is sold out for the next 12 months. The company has signed over $225M/year in master sales agreements and LOIs, and scale-up to mass production is now underway. Natron Energy has raised over $155M in venture capital investment to date, as well as $35M in non-dilutive funding to support its supply chain scale up.  
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