Operations Associate

Nox Metals; Detroit (MI); Presencial; USD 94.000 - 115.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Equity in Nox Metals

Company-paid medical, dental, and vis​

Descripción de la vacante

Nox Metals is hiring an Operations Associate in Detroit, MI to work closely with the General Manager across the factory floor and office. The role is not a standard 40-hour job and requires hands-on problem solving to keep operations moving from quote to ship.

You don't need a manufacturing background; candidates from finance, engineering, or supply chain who are willing to work hard and learn fast will excel. This in-person role offers equity and comprehensive benefits.

Formación

• You must be thorough and finish the job with checked work.
• Demonstrate high initiative and proactive problem solving.
• Comfortable on a factory floor and with production teams.
• Strong communication with managers on issues and fixes.
• Ability to analyze capacity, labor hours, and on-time shipping.

Responsabilidades

• Learn the full operation from quote to ship and identify bottlenecks.
• Keep the GM organized by tracking priorities and follow-ups.
• Own end-to-end projects from problem to fix.
• Analyze operation metrics to justify actions and improvements.
• Collaborate with shift leads, quality, receiving, and shipping to meet daily targets.
• Step in where needed on floor or in the office.
• Follow and improve SOPs.

Conocimientos

Spreadsheets

Numbers

Direct communication

High initiative

Flexible schedule

Descripción del empleo

Operations Associate | Nox Metals | Detroit, MI

About Nox Metals.

American factories deserve a supply chain that moves as fast as they do. Nox Metals is building it, along with the tools that run it. We’re a technology company in Metro Detroit supplying aluminum plate, bar, and rounds to aerospace and defense manufacturers. We use software and automation to supply metal to American factories faster than the industry thought possible.

The role.

We're hiring an Operations Associate to be our General Manager's right hand. This is not a 40-hour job. You'll work across the factory floor and the office, learn how the whole operation runs, and keep it moving. You'll get handed problems nobody has solved yet. Take them as far as you can, and when you get stuck, come back with what you tried and what you think we should do next.

As Nox opens new plants and our GM spends time getting them running, you're the person who keeps Detroit running without missing a beat. You report to the General Manager.

You don't need a manufacturing background. Some of the people who've grown fastest here came from finance, engineering, and supply chain. What they had in common: they wanted to work hard, took whatever job needed doing, and figured it out.

Shift hours:

Monday through Friday, 6:30 AM to 4:00 PM on paper. In reality, expect 60 to 80 hours a week for the foreseeable future, including early mornings, late nights, and weekends.

You will:

• Learn the factory inside and out: how an order moves from quote to cut to ship, and where it gets stuck
• Keep our GM organized: track priorities, follow up on open items, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks
• Own projects end to end, from figuring out the problem to getting it fixed
• Dig into the numbers behind the operation, like capacity, labor hours, cost per unit, and on-time shipping, and use them to make the case for what we do next
• Work with shift leads, quality, receiving, and shipping to hit our daily order targets
• Step in wherever the operation needs you, on the floor or in the office
• Follow every SOP, and tell us when one is broken so we can fix it

You are:

• Thorough: you finish the job and check your own work
• High agency: you don't wait for permission or perfect directions
• Smart, and quick to learn things you've never done before
• Ready to work 60 to 80 hour weeks while we build this, and still sharp at the end of them
• Someone who has built something: a business, a side hustle, a club, a team, even if it didn't work out
• Comfortable on a factory floor and with the people who work there
• A clear, direct communicator who can tell a manager what's wrong and how to fix it
• Strong with spreadsheets and comfortable with numbers
• Never says "that's not my job"

Nice to have:

• Manufacturing, operations, or supply chain experience
• Experience leading people, in any setting
• Experience at a startup or fast-growing company
• Comfortable using AI tools to work faster and smarter

Benefits:

• Equity in Nox Metals
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance

This role is full time, in person in Detroit.

Nox Metals is an equal opportunity employer. We hire based on skill, attitude, and fit for the work, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, height, weight, marital status, or any other protected status under federal, state, or local law.

Compensation Range: $94K - $115K