Director of Materials Management

Neros Technologies•Torrance, CA

About The Position

As Director of Materials Management at Neros, you will own all material flow, including inventory and warehousing, shipping and receiving, kitting and line-side replenishment, fulfillment, and logistics. Your team will manage material from the receiving dock to the production line and finished drones from pack-out through delivery, with inventory accuracy and material availability as core priorities. The role combines operations leadership and engineering. You will design and continually improve warehouse layouts, material flow systems, and packaging standards as production scales. You will build and lead a multi-shift team that is expected to grow to include industrial and packaging engineers, and plan capital investments and execute projects to support production of more than one 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 experience managing teams.
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.
Experience with material flow modeling or discrete event simulation tools 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 and own fulfillment and shipping for standard products and one-off shipments, including hazardous materials.
Maintain high inventory accuracy through process control and routine cycle counting, meeting internal and external audit requirements.
Define part-number-level standards for packaging, kitting, internal transport, and line-side presentation 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 the floorplan, processes, tooling, and training, and increase efficiency per employee.
Hire, develop, and lead a multi-level, multi-shift organization of hourly and salaried team members while maintaining a safety-first floor culture.
Partner with supply chain and business systems teams to develop tools and systems that support reliable work execution and processes such as FIFO, Kanban, clear-to-build, and fulfillment.