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Sourcing Manager, Foundation Equipment
We are seeking a Sourcing Manager to lead sourcing, planning, and production readiness focusing on the foundation equipment, specifically pile driving equipment. The role will involve translating NX product requirements to external equipment manufacturers to ensure that the supply chain is production ready, scalable, and cost-effective.
Solutions Manager
Nextpower is seeking a Solutions Manager with a proven track record of driving results to own the strategy, performance and evolution of the Aftermarket Solutions portfolio (warranties, availability guarantees, equipment replacement and upgrades, and solar power plant repowering). This role is accountable for driving profitable growth, setting multi-year solution roadmaps, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, differentiated service offerings aligned with enterprise objectives. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of product development, service delivery, and customer success.
The ideal candidate has a data driven mindset and experience in developing strategy, managing products and services, and partnering cross-functionally with Sales, Operations, and Finance to drive solution design, development, and delivery to maximize benefits both for customers and the business.
Sr Supplier Quality Engineer – PV Module Frames
Nextpower is seeking an experienced Supplier Quality Engineer to lead supplier quality performance and manufacturing process excellence across our growing product portfolio.
This role is responsible for auditing and qualifying new suppliers, driving robust quality systems implementation, and ensuring ongoing compliance through data-driven process control and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will partner closely with suppliers to implement PPAP requirements, inspection strategies, gage validation, SPC analysis, and corrective actions while owning supplier scorecards and performance metrics such as DPPM and early life failures.
This position plays a critical role in supporting manufacturing expansion, including recently acquired product lines, by strengthening supplier capability, mitigating risk, and ensuring our products consistently meet Nextpower’s quality and customer expectations.
Supplier Quality Engineer – eBOS Business Support
The Supplier Quality Engineer – eBOS Business Support is responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of Nextpower’s supplier base supporting eBOS products. This role drives supplier qualification, audit, and development activities while leading root cause analysis and corrective action efforts to resolve critical quality issues. The SQE partners closely with suppliers to implement robust quality systems, validate inspection processes and gaging, and deploy statistical process control methods to ensure ongoing compliance with Nextpower standards.
This position owns supplier quality performance metrics—including DPPM, early life failures, and RMAs—while implementing scorecards and optimizing inspection strategies to continuously improve outcomes. The role requires strong technical expertise in PPAP, FAI, MSA, GD&T, ISO 9001 auditing, and SPC tools, along with the ability to influence suppliers, drive process improvements, and support cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
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Sourcing Manager, Foundation Equipment
We are seeking a Sourcing Manager to lead sourcing, planning, and production readiness focusing on the foundation equipment, specifically pile driving equipment. The role will involve translating NX product requirements to external equipment manufacturers to ensure that the supply chain is production ready, scalable, and cost-effective.
Solutions Manager
Nextpower is seeking a Solutions Manager with a proven track record of driving results to own the strategy, performance and evolution of the Aftermarket Solutions portfolio (warranties, availability guarantees, equipment replacement and upgrades, and solar power plant repowering). This role is accountable for driving profitable growth, setting multi-year solution roadmaps, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, differentiated service offerings aligned with enterprise objectives. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of product development, service delivery, and customer success.
The ideal candidate has a data driven mindset and experience in developing strategy, managing products and services, and partnering cross-functionally with Sales, Operations, and Finance to drive solution design, development, and delivery to maximize benefits both for customers and the business.
Sr Supplier Quality Engineer – PV Module Frames
Nextpower is seeking an experienced Supplier Quality Engineer to lead supplier quality performance and manufacturing process excellence across our growing product portfolio.
This role is responsible for auditing and qualifying new suppliers, driving robust quality systems implementation, and ensuring ongoing compliance through data-driven process control and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will partner closely with suppliers to implement PPAP requirements, inspection strategies, gage validation, SPC analysis, and corrective actions while owning supplier scorecards and performance metrics such as DPPM and early life failures.
This position plays a critical role in supporting manufacturing expansion, including recently acquired product lines, by strengthening supplier capability, mitigating risk, and ensuring our products consistently meet Nextpower’s quality and customer expectations.
Supplier Quality Engineer – eBOS Business Support
The Supplier Quality Engineer – eBOS Business Support is responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of Nextpower’s supplier base supporting eBOS products. This role drives supplier qualification, audit, and development activities while leading root cause analysis and corrective action efforts to resolve critical quality issues. The SQE partners closely with suppliers to implement robust quality systems, validate inspection processes and gaging, and deploy statistical process control methods to ensure ongoing compliance with Nextpower standards.
This position owns supplier quality performance metrics—including DPPM, early life failures, and RMAs—while implementing scorecards and optimizing inspection strategies to continuously improve outcomes. The role requires strong technical expertise in PPAP, FAI, MSA, GD&T, ISO 9001 auditing, and SPC tools, along with the ability to influence suppliers, drive process improvements, and support cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.