Resin Materials Supply Chain Engineer – Production-Focused

Formlabs; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited 3D printing with Formlabs材料

Equity RSUs

Healthcare coverage starting Day 1

401K matching

Job summary

Formlabs is seeking a technically strong Supply Chain Engineer to own the raw-material supply chain for our resin production. You will manage chemical supplier relationships, qualification, and cost control, working with R&D and Quality to ensure on-time, on-spec inputs.

You will partner with factory teams on inventory, lead times, and risk, build dashboards, and drive continuous improvements from sourcing to production, with autonomy and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, or a closely related field.
• 5+ years of experience in chemical, specialty materials, polymer, coatings, adhesives, or consumer goods manufacturing in roles such as supplier quality, process engineering, plant operations, or raw-material sourcing.
• Direct experience working with chemical raw-material suppliers, including qualification, specifications, and quality investigations.
• Hands-on experience in or alongside a manufacturing plant, and a solid understanding of how raw-material variability affects production.
• Strong analytical skills: advanced Excel/Sheets; SQL, Python, or Tableau a plus.
• Comfortable owning recurring processes end-to-end and leading cross-functional projects with autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Own relationships with a broad base of chemical raw-material suppliers, running quarterly business reviews with scorecards for quality, delivery, cost, and responsiveness.
• Manage volume allocation across dual- and multi-sourced inputs to balance cost, capacity, and risk.
• Lead supplier qualification end-to-end, including technical assessments, site audits, sample evaluation with R&D and Quality, and maintenance of the Approved Supplier List.
• Investigate raw-material quality issues to root cause, working with suppliers, Quality, and the factory on lot-to-lot variability, specifications, certificates of analysis, and corrective actions.
• Act as the supply chain point of contact for the resin manufacturing facility, aligning raw-material supply with production plans, batch schedules, and inventory targets.
• Spend time on the factory floor to understand how incoming materials are received, stored, handled, and consumed, and use that knowledge to improve supply decisions.
• Partner with Planning and Manufacturing to set safety stock levels, manage shelf-life and storage constraints, and prevent line-down events.
• Find and qualify new raw materials that enable R&D to develop new resin properties and products.
• Build alternate-source strategies for critical inputs, especially single-source chemicals.
• Manage the controlled ramp of qualified alternate materials into regular production, coordinating R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain to ensure smooth transitions without changing product performance.
• Support NPI by sourcing new inputs, setting cost targets, and ensuring supply readiness ahead of launch.
• Build and maintain dashboards tracking current and forward-looking raw-material and resin COGS.
• Develop should-cost models grounded in chemistry and process economics to guide negotiations and cost reduction.
• Manage pricebooks and execute price change workflows.
• Maintain a live supply risk tracker covering single-source exposure, regulatory changes, supplier health, and market conditions for key chemical inputs, and lead mitigation planning.
• Lead process improvement projects across the resin supply chain, from scoping through implementation.
• Turn manual, recurring work into scalable tools and processes.

Skills

SQL

Python

Tableau

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, or related field

Tools

Excel

NetSuite

SAP

Job description

Formlabs is seeking a technically strong Supply Chain Engineer to own the raw-material supply chain for our resin production. You will manage chemical supplier relationships, qualification, and cost control, working with R&D and Quality to ensure on-time, on-spec inputs.

You will partner with factory teams on inventory, lead times, and risk, build dashboards, and drive continuous improvements from sourcing to production, with autonomy and cross-functional collaboration.