Materials Manager: Scale Semiconductor Tooling & Kits

Fab2; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Visa Sponsorship

Life and Disability Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Weekly Learning & Development

Commuter Benefits

Lunches daily, Dinners 3x per week

Job summary

fab2 is an early-stage hardware startup in Austin, TX seeking a Manager, Materials Management to own material flow from receiving to production. You will build the receiving, inventory, storage, kitting, and replenishment systems needed as production scales and coordinate with Sourcing, Planning, and Manufacturing to keep fabs supplied.

The role requires leadership of inventory professionals and a track record of improving material availability and accuracy in a production environment.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 fix 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.

Skills

Inventory management

Team leadership

ERP/MRP systems

Materials planning

Production logistics

Tools

ERP/MRP

WMS

MES

BOM reading

Job description

fab2 is an early-stage hardware startup in Austin, TX seeking a Manager, Materials Management to own material flow from receiving to production. You will build the receiving, inventory, storage, kitting, and replenishment systems needed as production scales and coordinate with Sourcing, Planning, and Manufacturing to keep fabs supplied.

The role requires leadership of inventory professionals and a track record of improving material availability and accuracy in a production environment.