Full-Time
Quality Technician
Posted on 5/22/2026
Energy Recovery
201-500 employees
Energy recovery technologies for industrial fluids
Compensation Overview
$28.50 - $34/hr
San Leandro, CA, USA
In Person
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- High School Diploma or equivalent is required.
- Minimum of 2–3 years’ experience in mechanical inspection or manufacturing quality.
- Proficiency in data analysis, interpretation, and reporting, with a strong ability to communicate data-driven insights to floor operations to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Deep commitment to enhancing both quality and cost performance in a production setting.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and organizational skills with a focus on team development and cross-functional collaboration.
- Perform visual, dimensional, and functional inspections of in-process production and finished goods against engineering drawings and/or quality inspection plans.
- Independently set up and operate inspection equipment including Round Testers and CMMs.
- Analyze and interpret quality inspection data to actively support manufacturing teams on the floor.
- Initiate Non-Conformance Material Reports (NCMRs) as required to ensure the proper disposition of non-conforming materials.
- Monitor the performance of quality control systems to ensure effectiveness and efficiency.
- Perform and/or participate in quality system audits as assigned, report findings, and make suggestions for continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with engineering and production teams to resolve quality issues.
- Support manufacturing teams with new product development activities as needed.
- Perform all other duties as assigned.
- Associate’s degree or higher in a STEM field is preferred.
Energy Recovery designs and sells energy-recovery technologies for industrial fluid systems. Its products, including the PX Pressure Exchanger, Ultra PX, IsoBoost, and VorTeq, capture and reuse energy from high-pressure fluid streams to lower overall energy use and operating costs. The company serves multiple sectors such as desalination, industrial wastewater treatment, hydraulic fracturing, sour gas processing, and CO2 refrigeration, and it also offers licensing and long-term service agreements. What sets the company apart is its long history of deploying pressure-exchange technology and its portfolio of proprietary solutions that span different industries, not just desalination. The goal is to help customers reduce energy costs and environmental impact while delivering reliable, scalable energy-recovery solutions through direct sales, licensing, and services.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Leandro, California
Founded
1992
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Water-stressed regions keep driving desalination project demand.[1]
- Energy efficiency buyers value lower operating costs and lifecycle savings.[2]
- Industrial diversification broadens sales beyond seawater reverse osmosis.[2]
What critics are saying
- Dependence on desalination exposes revenue to lumpy project timing.[1]
- Leadership transition can slow execution during a permanent CEO search.
- Competitors narrowing efficiency advantages would pressure pricing and market share.[2]
What makes Energy Recovery unique
- PX Pressure Exchanger technology anchors Energy Recovery’s desalination leadership.[1]
- The company applies energy-recovery systems across water and industrial fluid processes.[2]
- Its solutions target efficiency gains in desalination, wastewater, and refrigeration applications.[2]
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↑ 0%Energy Recovery Devices for water treatment facilities "deros-e(r)" receives Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award at the Energy Conservation grand prize. Its Energy Recovery Devices(ERD) for water treatment facilities, " DeROs- [E(R),] " has won the top award, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award, in the Electricity Demand Optimization category of the Products and Business Models category of the 2025 (Reiwa 7) Energy Conservation Awards (sponsored by the Energy Conservation Center, Japan). The award ceremony is scheduled to be held at Tokyo Big Sight on Wednesday, January 28, 2026. The Energy Conservation Award is a system that recognizes outstanding energy conservation efforts and advanced, highly efficient energy-saving products in Japan's industrial, business and transportation sectors. The award-winning " DeROs- [E(R)" is an energy-saving device that can reduce the equipment's power consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by highly efficiently recovering and reusing the pressure energy of wastewater generated during the water treatment process in water treatment facilities such as those used to produce ultrapure water and for wastewater and sewage treatment. A challenge with conventional ERDs for seawater desalination is that energy recovery from wastewater discharged from low-pressure reverse osmosis (RO) membranes is uneconomical. " DeROs- [E(R)" was awarded this prize in recognition of its ability to recover energy highly efficiently even under low-pressure conditions of RO wastewater pressure of 0.2 to 4 MPa by optimizing the shape of the flow path. Based on its purpose of "Enriching Lives and Shaping a Better Future Through Water and Air," Dmw Corporation will continue to create solutions that help resolve Social Responsibility issues and contribute to the development of a sustainable Social Responsibility.
Energy Recovery also promoted David Kim-Hak to Vice President, Wastewater, a new role created to capitalise on growth opportunities in municipal and industrial wastewater treatment.
At the 2024 IDRA World Congress show this week, Energy Recovery, Inc. was honored with The Breakthrough Innovation Award for Most Innovative Company in Desalination Technology.
Mr. Mancini joins Energy Recovery from Astranis Space Technologies Corp., a San Francisco-based next-gen satellite company, where he served as CFO for four years and was instrumental in bringing this revolutionary satellite technology to market.
SAN LEANDRO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Energy Recovery, Inc. (Nasdaq: ERII) today announced $15 million in contracts to supply its PX® Pressure Exchanger® energy recovery devices to seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plants in India. All orders are expected to ship in 2024. All together, these plants will provide over 670,000 cubic meters of clean drinking water to communities in India each day. As one of the most water stressed countries in the world, India continues to invest in desalination projects in order to supplement its freshwater supply. The country is home to 18% of the world’s population but has only 4% of the world’s water resources