Manager, Materials Management - Austin, United States
Originally posted 27 July 2026 by the employer.
Own the physical flow of material from the receiving dock to the production floor for manufacturing chip fabs.
About the role
As Manager, Materials Management, you will own the physical flow of material from the receiving dock to the production floor. You will build the receiving, inventory, storage, kitting, and replenishment systems needed to keep every build supplied as production scales.
What you'll do
- Lead receiving, inventory control, warehousing, kitting, and internal material movement.
- Ensure material is received, inspected, transacted, stored, and available to production on time.
- Maintain accurate quantities, locations, revisions, lot numbers, serial numbers, and material status in our ERP/MES.
- Develop cycle-counting processes and find and fix the root causes of inventory discrepancies.
- Work with Sourcing & Planning to prioritize incoming material and resolve shortages affecting production.
- Hire, train, and lead inventory specialists, materials specialists, and receiving and kitting personnel as the team grows.
What you'll need
- 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.
- Ability to read BOMs, drawings, part numbers, and revision-controlled manufacturing documentation.
Nice to have
- Experience with semiconductor equipment, aerospace, robotics, automotive, or complex electromechanical systems.
- Experience supporting production as it scales from prototype builds to recurring or high-volume manufacturing.
- Familiarity with cleanroom material handling, lot traceability, serialized components, and controlled inventory.
Skills: materials management, inventory control, warehousing, kitting, ERP/MES
This role has been open 83 days — well above the 53-day median for Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering roles.
Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
2523
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Median days open
53 d
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Median salary
$97k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Atomic Semi | All employers we track in this specialty (2523 roles · 80 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 2523 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 24 | 9897 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 123 d | 53 d (+70 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $97k |
Skills observed across this category: materials management, inventory control, warehousing, kitting, ERP/MES
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 402 open roles · median 78 d
- Applied Materials · 251 open roles · median 40 d
- Entegris · 225 open roles · median 39 d
- Lam Research · 108 open roles · median 61 d
- Infineon Technologies · 90 open roles · median 59 d
- STMicroelectronics · 69 open roles · median 55 d
How we counted: 2523 open Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 80 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.