Detalles del empleo
Join exceptional people from around the world to solve some of the world's toughest energy challenges, make a real impact, and enjoy the adventure of building the future of industrial decarbonization together.
As our Technical Sourcing & Cost Engineer, you will work where engineering, manufacturing and supply chain meet, helping ensure that cost, manufacturability, supplier capability and scalability shape our products from the earliest stages of development.
This is not a conventional procurement role. You will be a technical and commercial sparring partner to our engineers, bringing informed challenge before designs are frozen. You will help answer the questions that determine whether a promising concept can become a competitive product: How should it be made? What will drive its cost? Which suppliers can deliver it? How must the manufacturing strategy change as production volumes grow?
Your Impact
You will help ensure that engineering decisions are informed by manufacturing reality, supplier capability and cost from the earliest stages of development.
Your recommendations will connect today's development needs with the production architecture required for future deployment, helping GlassPoint develop products that are competitive, manufacturable and ready to scale.
What You'll Do
Shape Cost & Manufacturability
- Partner with engineers throughout component and product development, providing practical manufacturing, sourcing and cost insight.
- Carry out high-level techno-economic, should-cost and design-to-cost analysis for alternative concepts, materials and manufacturing processes.
- Translate design decisions into their likely effects on component, subsystem and total system cost.
- Look beyond purchase price to consider tooling, assembly, logistics, installation, commissioning, reliability, maintainability and lifecycle economics.
- Apply Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) and value-engineering thinking to simplify designs, reduce part count and improve scalability.
- Identify where tolerances, specifications, specialist processes or limited supplier availability may create unnecessary cost or supply risk.
Develop Suppliers
- Find and develop capable manufacturers for prototypes, development parts and low-volume requirements.
- Work with the wider Supply Chain team to transition successful designs towards competitive, resilient and higher-volume suppliers.
- Maintain a current view of modern manufacturing technologies, automation and emerging supplier capabilities relevant to GlassPoint.
Build for Production Scale
- Compare credible volume scenarios and identify when prototype or low-volume methods should give way to dedicated tooling, automation, alternative materials or higher-throughput processes.
- Connect today's development needs with the production architecture required for future deployment.
Who You Are
You are technically credible, commercially minded and comfortable challenging established approaches constructively.
You can make useful, transparent judgements when information is incomplete and designs are still evolving. You are curious about how things are made, why they cost what they do and how they could be improved.
You communicate complex manufacturing and economic trade-offs clearly to engineers, suppliers and leadership, and move comfortably between engineering detail, supplier capability and system-level economics.
Ideally, you'll bring:
- A degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Typically 5-10 years of relevant experience across engineering, manufacturing, technical sourcing, cost engineering, supplier development or a combination of these fields.
- A strong practical understanding of manufacturing processes and their cost drivers.
- Experience working directly with engineering teams during product or component development.
- Experience in conceptual costing, should-cost modelling, value engineering, design-to-cost or techno-economic analysis.
- Sound judgement about supplier capability, process limitations, tooling, quality, capacity and scale-up risk.
- Current knowledge of modern manufacturing technologies, industrialisation methods and automation.
- Experience sourcing prototypes or low-volume components and supporting their transition towards serial production is highly desirable.
- Experience working with international suppliers and cross-functional teams would be an advantage.
What You'll Find at GlassPoint
- Real ownership and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact from day one.
- Exceptional colleagues from diverse disciplines who challenge, support, and learn from each other.
- Complex challenges that require curiosity, collaboration, and innovation.
- An international team united by a shared purpose and ambitious goals.
- The adventure of helping build the future of industrial decarbonization.
We value inclusion and foster a culture of belonging, welcoming team members of all backgrounds, regardless of gender, gender identity, nationality, ethnic or social background, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. We have zero tolerance for discrimination, harassment, bullying, or retaliation.
GlassPoint helps heavy industry decarbonize by replacing fuel-based steam with solar thermal heat. This reduces energy costs and improves long-term energy security. We're a proven technology, already operating some of the world's largest solar steam projects across sun-belt regions in oil and gas, metals, and mining.
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Sobre este empleo
Sobre GLASSPOINT TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH
Resumen de la Empresa
GlassPoint Technology Center GmbH (propiedad privada)
SedeStuttgart, Alemania
Fundación2007
TamañoLa empresa emplea aproximadamente a 50 personas en Stuttgart, con un fuerte crecimiento tras una ronda de financiación en 2026 (source: make-it-in-germany.com)
Qué Hacen
GlassPoint Technology Center GmbH está especializada en sistemas industriales de vapor solar térmico, operados en una estructura tipo invernadero con espejos parabólicos cerrados para generar vapor de proceso para industrias pesadas (source: thegreentechpreneur.substack.com). La empresa no solo ofrece ingeniería de plantas, sino que también las opera bajo un modelo de "Vapor como Servicio", proporcionando a clientes en sectores difíciles de descarbonizar como petróleo y gas, minería, química, materiales de construcción y desalación, vapor de proceso sostenible (source: glasspoint.com). La sede en Stuttgart funciona como centro tecnológico y de desarrollo, donde un equipo multidisciplinario de ingenieros, desarrolladores de software y expertos en energía solar trabaja en la mejora continua de los sistemas (source: glasspoint.com).
Proyectos y Trayectoria
El proyecto más conocido de GlassPoint es el proyecto de vapor Amal en Omán, considerado una de las primeras plantas industriales de vapor solar térmico a gran escala, que ha demostrado la eficacia de la tecnología en la práctica (source: thegreentechpreneur.substack.com). Además, GlassPoint ha desarrollado varias otras grandes instalaciones en regiones soleadas para la industria del petróleo y gas y otras industrias pesadas, lo que subraya su posición líder en vapor solar industrial para procesos (source: glasspoint.com). Los proyectos se caracterizan por su escalabilidad y enfoque en calor de proceso con bajas emisiones, posicionando a GlassPoint como un socio clave para la descarbonización de industrias difíciles de reducir (source: preqin.com).
Desarrollos Recientes
En septiembre de 2024, GlassPoint aseguró una ronda de financiación de 20 millones de dólares para expandir el centro tecnológico en Stuttgart y acelerar el desarrollo de la tecnología industrial de vapor solar térmico (source: glasspoint.com). En 2023 se inauguró el centro tecnológico en Stuttgart, bajo la dirección del CTO Markus Balz, quien incorporó expertos del sector para fortalecer la capacidad innovadora (source: glasspoint.com). En 2026 siguió otra ronda de financiación con la participación de MIG Capital y New Investment Solutions, acompañada de un aumento del personal en Stuttgart, especialmente en las áreas de ingeniería estructural y de materiales (source: preqin.com).
Trabajar Allí
GlassPoint en Stuttgart emplea principalmente profesionales en ingeniería, desarrollo de software y pruebas estructurales y de materiales, que colaboran estrechamente para avanzar en los complejos sistemas solar térmicos (source: talents.studysmarter.de). La oficina está ubicada en el edificio Skyloop cerca del aeropuerto de Stuttgart y ofrece un entorno de trabajo moderno con horarios flexibles y oportunidades de desarrollo (source: glasspoint.com). La cultura empresarial se caracteriza por un espíritu innovador y colaboración interdisciplinaria, donde el tamaño compacto del equipo facilita una red cercana y un intercambio rápido de conocimientos (source: make-it-in-germany.com).
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