Job Opportunities at BURN Manufacturing

BURN is looking for a Director of Engineering whose overall responsibility will be to bring new products through the product development process and launch them into the factory, including design, testing, engineering, process development, and developing/launching new production lines.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for launching new products in the factory, including timelines, budgets, and risk analysis in addition to technical aspects.
• Detailed design of new products, including process development, equipment selection, design for manufacturability, durability testing, material selection, etc.
• Design and produce production, assembly, and QC tooling as well as custom factory equipment.
• Oversee initial production of new products.
• Team management of engineers, testing lab, and workshop. Work closely with designers, market research, factory management, quality control.
• Develop SOP’s, WI, specs, tolerances, QA processes and procedures.
• Create and adhere to budgets and timelines.
• Support the factory, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, equipment startup, and continuous improvement.

Desired experience:

• Sheet metal punching and forming
• General machine shop knowledge, including CNC equipment
• Must have launched at least 1 production line
• Must have developed and launched at least 1 consumer product
• Jig and fixture design
• Experience with tool/die or moulds
• Working knowledge of materials, specifically metals and plastics
• Basic knowledge and troubleshooting of mechanical, electrical and hydraulic systems

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BURN is looking for a Director of Research whose overall responsibility will be to lead BURN’s long-term research department. The DoR will lead a team that will pursue, write and administrate grants (mostly responding to RFPs/solicitations), to support 3 key areas:

1. R&D for new technologies
2. Pilots/field studies to test innovative new products and services
3. Expansion into new markets

The DoR, in 2020, will build and supervise a 4-person team that will include a Grant Writer, Grant Administrator, and two Project Managers. This team will liaise with Burn’s existing Design & Engineering, Market Intelligence, and Expansion teams to fulfill items 1 – 3 listed above.

BURN currently raises over $1 million in grant funding and we expect the DOR to grow this to ~$2 million in 2020.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Responsible for identifying and writing grants that are well aligned with BURN’s mission, vision, and capacity.
• Responsible for building and managing their team
• Ensure that all projects are sufficiently and appropriately resourced and that our recommended project management and analysis approaches are being adhered to.
• To monitor on a day-to-day basis, resources for live projects, supplementing/modifying teams as required, and generally acting in the role of troubleshooter to ensure the smooth progress of all projects.
• To take an overview of the management of all live projects, ensuring that relevant meetings take place - initiation, mid-project update, product handling, field, data processing, and data analysis briefings, debrief planning and postmortems. This will involve direct liaison with each department and key personnel across the relevant departments.
• To scrutinize proposed timings for projects and discuss them with the key departments to ensure that projects’ needs are met.
• To keep abreast of outstanding proposals to foresee and plan workload levels.

Desired experience:

• 5 years’ experience in managing grant-funded or similar programs
• Research management
• Grant writing
• Grant administration
• Project management
• Thrive in a fast-paced creative environment with a culture of experimentation yet value the need to organize and plan
• Excellent communication skills – unafraid to speak up or take issues head-on
• A technical background is preferred
• The successful candidate will, in the long run, manage these teams but must have practical experience in each category to ensure a running start. A technical background would be helpful, or at least someone who's engaged with a technical team before.