# Sr. Manager, Production Controls at VULCAN ELEMENTS

- Company: VULCAN ELEMENTS
- What the company does: Manufacturing rare earth magnets for a secure, resilient future. Backed by Space Capital.
- Company website: https://vulcanelements.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Benson, NC
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/vulcanelements/jobs/5423456008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vulcan-elements-sr-manager-production-controls/

## About the role

This role establishes material flow, WIP locations, storage and staging design, the ERP and warehouse management configuration, and the inbound, WIP and outbound organizations do not yet exist. The Manager designs them during construction and then leads the organization that runs them.

## What they're looking for

- Design end-to-end material flow — inbound receiving through finished goods shipment — including bulk chemical and rare earth feedstock handling, inter-area WIP movement, and finished magnet packaging and dispatch
- Define WIP locations, buffer sizing and staging areas between Metallization, Magnet Production and Machining, and physically confirm them on the floor with Construction and the Operations areas before turnover
- Establish the storage strategy: racking, bulk storage, hazardous and controlled material segregation, environmental and humidity requirements, and floor marking and location addressing
- Specify material handling equipment — forklifts, tuggers, lifts and containers — and the traffic patterns, aisle widths and pedestrian separation that make movement safe at rate
- Own functional configuration of the ERP and warehouse management environment: item masters, units of measure, storage locations and bins, put-away and picking logic, and transaction types
- Build and govern item, location and BOM-linked material data, including the master data controls that keep it accurate as volume scales

Tags: Commercial Manufacturing