Manager, Materials Management
Lead receiving, inventory control, warehousing, kitting, and material movement for semiconductor fab production. Build and optimize systems to ensure on-time material availability as manufacturing scales, while maintaining high inventory accuracy in ERP/MES.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead receiving, inventory control, warehousing, kitting, and internal material movement.
- Ensure material is received, inspected, transacted, stored, and available to production on time.
- Build complete kits for components, tools, and fabs against the production schedule.
- Establish storage locations, supermarkets, lineside inventory, and point-of-use replenishment.
- Maintain accurate quantities, locations, revisions, lot numbers, serial numbers, and material status in our ERP/MES.
- Develop cycle-counting processes and find and fix the root causes of inventory discrepancies.
- Design material flow from receiving through storage, assembly, test, and finished goods.
- Define material-handling and packaging standards for sensitive, cleanroom, and high-value components.
- Work with Sourcing & Planning to prioritize incoming material and resolve shortages affecting production.
- Work with Manufacturing to improve inventory, kitting, and material-flow workflows in our ERP/MES.
- Track inventory accuracy, dock-to-stock time, kit completeness, shortage aging, and lineside availability.
- Hire, train, and lead inventory specialists, materials specialists, and receiving and kitting personnel as the team grows.
- Support the launch and operation of materials areas across Fab2 sites.
Required Experience
- 5+ years in materials management, inventory control, warehousing, logistics, or manufacturing operations.
- Experience leading receiving, inventory, kitting, or material-handling teams in a production environment.
- Track record maintaining high inventory accuracy and improving material availability to production.
- Experience developing warehouse layouts, storage systems, cycle-counting programs, and lineside replenishment.
- Fluency with ERP, MRP, WMS, or MES inventory systems.
- Ability to read BOMs, drawings, part numbers, and revision-controlled manufacturing documentation.
Nice-to-have
- Experience with semiconductor equipment, aerospace, robotics, automotive, or complex electromechanical systems.
- Experience supporting production as it scales from prototype builds to recurring or high-volume manufacturing.
- Familiarity with cleanroom material handling, lot traceability, serialized components, and controlled inventory.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off inclusive of Holidays and Sick Time
- Visa Sponsorship
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Paid Parental Leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Weekly Learning & Development opportunities
- Commuter Benefits including Parking and Late Night Uber rides from the office
- Lunches daily, Dinners 3x per week, Stocked Office Kitchen with Snacks and Spindrifts
Skills
ERP, Mrp, Wms, Mes, Boms, Inventory Control, Cycle Counting, Warehouse Management, Material Flow Design, Kitting
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