Senior Commissioning Technician

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

Project Delivery, Operations & Maintenance, and Customer Success have collaborated to address a critical need across all of our teams > > > A dedicated commissioning team. Focused on increasing the speed in which we are able to get LGens from PTO (Permission To Operate from the Electric Utility to COD (Commercial Operation Date, when EAF and the performance guarantees start). Also focusing on collaboration with CLS to improve Factory Acceptance Test processes and ensure factory to field changes are minimized. Finally, focused on tool and process development to improve efficiency and robustness of the commissioning phase.

We are seeking motivated and skilled individuals to transfer into the Commissioning Team. This role allows you to build on your existing expertise and experience with mechanical, fuel, and electrical systems and enable Mainspring to deploy larger projects with new functionality into the world. You'll play a key role in commissioning new Linear Generators and mentoring new hires as part of a growing team. This is an exciting opportunity for those looking to advance their careers into leadership positions or expand into the specialized field of control commissioning.

This position is a dedicated transfer to the Project Delivery Commissioning Team. The expectation after completing the transition process will be that commissioning activities will be a primary focus, but during any gaps or downtime between projects you can support the existing FST department.

The Commissioning Technician role is focused on initial energization of LGen’s, identifying retrofits and required engineering changes for the fleet. Proactively inspecting and repairing, servicing and preparing units for initial operations. Planning and preparing tooling and setting up parts warehouses for upcoming projects. Collaboration on geographic hires and training as we bring online large projects in new territories, as well as working with existing FOA/FST teams for surge planning as well as third party training opportunities.

Responsibilities

Qualifications

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.