Director of Materials Management
About The Position
The Director of Materials Management owns all material flow at Neros, including inventory and warehousing, shipping and receiving, kitting and line-side replenishment, fulfillment, and logistics. The role is accountable for material availability and inventory accuracy from receiving through production, as well as the shipment and delivery of finished drones. This position combines operations leadership with engineering work. The Director designs and continually improves warehouse layouts, material flow systems, and packaging standards as production scales; builds and leads a multi-shift organization that is expected to grow to include industrial and packaging engineers; and plans and executes capital investments and projects to support production of more than 1 million drones per year at Neros’ 250,000-square-foot Torrance factory.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in materials management, warehouse, or distribution operations within a manufacturing plant.
- At least 3 years of team-management experience.
- Experience owning inventory accuracy for an operation with 1,000 or more active part numbers.
- Transaction-level fluency in an ERP/WMS system, including min/max settings, backflush, cycle-count variance, and location management.
- Direct ownership of shipping and receiving, including carrier management and on-time shipment performance.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a similar technical field.
- Experience scaling a materials operation through a major production ramp in aerospace, automotive, medical device, or consumer electronics.
- Material-flow modeling or discrete-event simulation experience, such as FlexSim or AnyLogic.
- SQL or Python skills for operational analysis.
- Experience handling and shipping ITAR-controlled hardware.
- Experience handling and shipping hazardous materials, including lithium-ion batteries.
Responsibilities
- Own inventory, material handling, and warehouse operations, including processes, systems, and execution.
- Ensure on-time shipping, with total ownership of fulfillment and shipping for standard products and one-off shipments, including hazardous materials.
- Maintain high inventory accuracy through process controls and routine cycle counting, meeting internal and external audit requirements.
- Define packaging, kitting, internal transport, and line-side presentation standards at the part-number level in partnership with production and supply chain.
- Design warehouse layouts, storage systems, and material flow for each production-rate increase; plan and execute capital investments in racking, material handling equipment, and automation.
- Use simulation and data analysis to improve floorplans, processes, tooling, and training, and increase efficiency per employee.
- Hire, develop, and lead a multi-level, multi-shift organization of hourly and salaried employees while maintaining a safety-first floor culture.
- Partner with supply chain and business systems teams to develop tools and systems for visualizing and executing work reliably, including FIFO, Kanban, clear-to-build, and fulfillment processes.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of the total compensation package.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
