Senior Production Engineer (51530)

About the role

This position serves as a leader within the design team by providing assignment, training, leadership, and technical support. The Senior Production Engineer acts as a mentor to junior engineers and plays a critical role in translating engineering designs into manufacturable products, ensuring smooth production transitions, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

At Gradian, you'll work alongside others who get genuinely fired up by complex problems, see your work go from first sketch to job site in weeks (not years), and know that while we're developing the technologies critical for AI infrastructure to scale, our culture remains people-first by design. We operate as one team — driving to win together, energizing others, and building lasting relationships that make the work fun and rewarding.

Responsibilities

Project Management

• Leading large complex projects that may require additional engineers or resources from other departments and/or subprojects
• Working on projects as an engineer from the time jobs are sold to the point of shipment
• Purchasing components, vendor management and follow-up, and dealing with continually changing delivery issues
• Developing metrics to measure projects or department improvement
• Researching improved technology for existing products and proposing changes for approval
• Creating budgets for projects and reporting on progress

Design for Manufacturability (DFM)

• Leading the design team and incorporating DFM principles into product designs from the concept stage
• Developing and maintaining DFM guidelines and best practices within the engineering department
• Analyzing designs for manufacturability, identifying potential issues, and proposing design improvements for optimal production flow

Production Support

• Working closely with the production team to troubleshoot production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions
• Monitoring production performance and identifying areas for improvement
• Developing metrics to measure success for engineering-to-manufacturing handoffs (e.g., sheet metal designs and remakes, insufficient BoM details)
• Proposing cost savings initiatives or process optimization changes to increase productivity of engineering and/or manufacturing

Leadership

• Leading production engineering meetings — facilitating productive discussions, driving decision-making, fostering collaboration, and staying informed
• Helping develop an SME program and training for production engineering and operations teams
• Driving initiatives for continuous improvement in the engineering team
• Acting as a mentor to junior engineers and technical personnel

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
• Understanding of typical HVAC design and the Psychometric chart
• Proficient with Microsoft Office tools and similar Google products
• 3-D CAD capabilities and SolidWorks modeling

Preferred qualifications

• Project management experience (strongly preferred)
• Manufacturing experience, sheet metal design, and ISO facility experience
• Job site/field experience

Skills

• Strong critical thinking, organization, and attention to detail
• Positive attitude and motivated personality
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a high level of confidence communicating with customers and suppliers
• Strong problem solver and team player

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental plans
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Group term life insurance coverage
• HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care plans available
• 8 paid holidays, 4 floating holidays, and generous PTO policy
• 401k matching
• Company-paid events
• Annual safety shoe allowance
• Education assistance program