Supply Chain Associate

Nox Metals; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Nox Metals

Company-paid medical, dental, and vis

Job summary

Nox Metals in Ferndale, MI is seeking a Supply Chain Associate to source and purchase materials quickly to win aerospace and defense work. You’ll act as the broker between sales and the metals market, turning MSRs into supplier quotes the same day and coordinating PO creation with ship dates.

You will manage supplier relationships, book trucks, ensure heat-numbered certs, and help build faster quoting and inventory tools with the software team.

Qualifications

• MSR-to-quote the same day and convert requests into supplier quotes.
• Precise alloy specs, tolerances, AMS/ASTM, and heat numbers.
• Fast landed cost, yield, and margin calculations in head.
• Software-focused approach to quoting, PO, and inventory tools.

Responsibilities

• Be a metals market broker, turning MSRs into quotes the same day.
• Price quotes on landed $/lb against par price and communicate limits to sales.
• Write POs the day you win; manage ship dates, substitutions, and heats.
• Book trucks, chase BOLs, and confirm dock dates before loading.
• Land material with heat numbers and certs in Praetorian and NOX Nest.
• Onboard new suppliers and regions; own supplier relationships.

Skills

Metals market knowledge

Procurement negotiation

Sourcing and purchasing

Tools

Praetorian

NOX Nest

ERP/MRP systems

Job description

Supply Chain Associate | Nox Metals | Ferndale, 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 Ferndale, Michigan 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.

Nox Metals supplies cut-to-size metal to aerospace, defense, and industrial manufacturers. We're looking for a Supply Chain Associate to buy material we don't have, fast, for jobs we want to win.

A large share of what sales quotes isn't on our floor. You are the broker between our sales team and the metals market: quote it the same day, buy it the hour we win, truck it in, and land it on our dock before anyone asks where it is. You will work closely with sales, supply chain, finance, operations, and the engineers building Nox's quoting and purchasing tools.

Success looks like.

Same-business-day MSR-to-quote time, same-day award-to-PO time, on-time delivery to the dock date you gave operations, sales won on your quoting, purchases made below par, and new suppliers onboarded.

You will:

• Be a metals market broker
• Turn material sourcing requests (MSRs) into supplier quotes the same day: phone and email the supply base in parallel, and follow up until you have a number
• Price every quote on landed $/lb (material, freight, cut charges, lead time) against our par price and tell sales what the job can bear
• Write purchase orders the day we win and see them through: acknowledgments, ship dates, substitutions, split heats
• Book trucks (LTL, flatbed, dedicated), chase BOLs, and give operations a dock date before the truck leaves the supplier
• Land material with certs matched to heat numbers, entered in Praetorian and NOX Nest, DFARS-traceable
• Buy ahead when the price is below par: others' incoming stock, mill overruns, surplus lots
• Own every supplier relationship; onboard new sources, alloys, and regions
• Work with the software team to make the quoting, PO, and inventory tools faster
• Complete other duties as assigned

You are:

• Someone who picks up the phone and keeps calling until there's a number
• Precise on the spec: alloy, temper, AMS/ASTM, tolerance, origin. 6061-T6 and 6061-T651 are not the same thing
• Fast with landed cost, yield, and margin in your head
• Software-focused: you live in the tools and get them fixed rather than work around them
• Comfortable being timed. Every MSR, PO, and truck is on the scoreboard

Nice to have:

• Metals purchasing at a service center, or work as a broker
• Fast-turn buying anywhere the clock matters
• Freight and BOL experience
• DFARS and mill-cert handling
• Experience with ERP or MRP systems
• Experience with constrained optimization
• Experience with pricing and quote economics

Pay and benefits:

• $60,000 to $70,000 salary, based on experience
• Equity in Nox Metals
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance

This role is full time and in person in Ferndale, MI.

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.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act.