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Reporting directly to the COO, this role will oversee day-to-day production execution for membrane manufacturing and electrodialysis stack assembly, together with production planning, procurement, inventory, logistics, and supply chain operations.\nThis is a unique opportunity to build the operating systems and execution discipline needed for two complementary production environments: process-driven membrane production and precision electrodialysis stack assembly. The role will receive approved processes, SOPs, work instructions, and production specifications from Captura’s membrane and stack technical leaders and ensure they are implemented and followed consistently in production. This role will work closely with technical owners of membrane and stack in supporting scale up and industrialization.\nThe ideal candidate brings experience leading production operations in advanced materials, membrane or chemical manufacturing, chemical processing, mechanical assembly, or related industrial environments. Direct or adjacent experience with electrodialysis, water electrolyzers, fuel cells, redox-flow batteries, or comparable stack systems is particularly relevant. The successful candidate will excel at translating approved technical processes into disciplined daily execution, building production teams and operating systems, improving cost and production flow, and partnering effectively with technical owners in a fast-growing startup environment.\nResponsibilities\nProduction Operations\nLead day-to-day production operations across membrane manufacturing and electrodialysis stack assembly, ensuring safe, efficient, consistent, and high-quality execution in accordance with approved SOPs, work instructions, and production specifications.\nManage daily membrane production activities, including staffing, material staging, schedule adherence, production records, in-process checks, and escalation of deviations, to deliver consistent output in accordance with approved processes.\nManage and sustain standardized electrodialysis stack assembly operations, with an emphasis on repeatability, quality, throughput, labor efficiency, and production flow.\nDevelop and implement production planning, scheduling, labor planning, and capacity management processes across both membrane production and stack assembly. \n\nTranslate approved production plans and technical requirements into executable schedules, staffing plans, material readiness, and shop-floor coordination as production volumes increase.\nEstablish and manage operational KPIs across both production areas, including yield, throughput, cycle time, on-time delivery, quality, scrap/rework, equipment utilization, labor productivity, and cost per unit.\nReceive approved SOPs, work instructions, production specifications, and quality controls from membrane and stack technical owners; implement them on the production floor; ensure employees are trained and qualified; maintain production records; and enforce document and process-change controls.\nDrive continuous improvement in production flow, scheduling, labor utilization, material handling, workplace organization, and waste reduction. Propose process, material, tooling, or equipment changes to the relevant technical owner and implement them only after technical review and approval.\nSupport membrane and stack technical owners in transferring released membrane formulations, stack designs, and manufacturing processes into controlled production by coordinating readiness, training, documentation, materials, staffing, and execution; technical owners retain responsibility for process development, scale-up, and qualification.\nEnsure production activities, chemical handling, equipment operation, and production records comply with applicable safety, environmental, regulatory, and quality requirements; coordinate necessary operational certification.\nSupply Chain & Procurement\n\nBuild and manage the supply chain function, including sourcing, procurement, inventory management, and logistics for raw materials, chemicals, membrane components, stack components, and production consumables. \nDevelop and manage relationships with key suppliers and contract manufacturers. \nEnsure continuity of supply for critical chemicals, raw materials, and mechanical components required for membrane and stack production. \nImplement inventory planning systems and controls to support increasing production volumes while maintaining appropriate inventory levels.\nOwn cost-reduction initiatives across sourcing, supplier terms, freight, inventory, scrap, and production efficiency, while routing any proposed material, design, or technical process change through the appropriate technical owner for review and approval.\nPartner with Accounting to establish appropriate purchasing, inventory, cost-tracking, and manufacturing reporting processes. \n\nProduction Equipment & Maintenance\nIn coordination with technical owners, manage day-to-day readiness of production equipment, tooling, utilities, operating supplies, and production infrastructure supporting membrane manufacturing and stack assembly.\nSupport technical leads on production-line installations, equipment commissioning, tooling changes, and capacity-expansion projects by coordinating vendors, schedules, procurement, site readiness, documentation, and operator training.\nEstablish and manage preventive maintenance programs and operational best practices for production equipment and infrastructure.\nIdentify operational opportunities for automation and semi-automation, and work with technical owners and Engineering to assess and implement approved solutions.\n\nTeam Leadership\nBuild and lead dedicated production and supply chain teams that execute approved membrane and stack processes; technical development and manufacturing engineering resources will remain under their respective functional leaders.\nRecruit, develop, and lead production supervisors and operators across membrane production and stack assembly, together with production planning, procurement, inventory, and logistics personnel.\nDevelop staffing models, shift plans, training matrices, and skill requirements for membrane production and stack assembly personnel.\nBuild a high-performance manufacturing culture focused on safety, quality, accountability, repeatability, productivity, and execution.\nPartner closely with Engineering, R&D, Product Development, Quality, and the membrane and stack technical leaders to support production readiness and controlled implementation of released processes, while those technical teams retain ownership of technology development, manufacturing process scale-up, and qualification.\n\nOperational Planning & Performance\nDevelop the operational systems, controls, management routines, and metrics required to support organizational and production growth.\nDevelop the production operations and supply-chain strategy required to support both process-intensive membrane production and standardized stack assembly, consistent with the technical roadmaps established by the membrane and stack leaders.\nSupport production readiness for higher volumes and new product introductions by coordinating materials, suppliers, staffing, training, documentation, facilities, and launch execution; provide operational feedback to technical teams on manufacturability, while technical owners retain responsibility for manufacturing scale-up and design for manufacturability.\nDevelop operational capacity plans using process capability and equipment requirements provided or approved by technical owners, and identify the facility, labor, inventory, logistics, and supply-chain resources needed to meet production forecasts.\nProvide production forecasts, operational reporting, cost analysis, and performance metrics to executive leadership.\nServe as a key member of the operations leadership team, helping shape Captura’s long-term production operations and supply-chain strategy.\n\nQualifications\nRequired\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, or a related technical or business\n7+ years of experience leading manufacturing or production operations, supply chain, or production management.\nDemonstrated success building disciplined production operations and increasing output through planning, staffing, standard work, supply-chain readiness, and operational controls.\nExperience managing suppliers, procurement, inventory, and logistics.\nStrong project management and organizational skills.\nPreferred\nExperience working in a startup or high-growth technology company.\nExperience operationalizing released processes and increasing production volume from pilot to commercial\nKnowledge of membrane technologies, electrochemical systems, water treatment, energy, or climate technology sectors.\nLean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or related operational excellence experience.\nFamiliarity with ERP, MRP, and inventory management systems.\nFeatured Benefits\nCompensation\nThe approximate salary range for this role is $145,000-$175,000. Actual compensation depends on factors unique to each candidate, including geographic location, education, experience, qualifications, and job-related skills. It is not typical for someone to be hired above the midpoint of the range. This range reflects base salary only - total compensation includes the benefits and rewards outlined below, and will be considered as a whole when we present an offer.\nBenefits & Total Rewards\nHealth coverage: Medical, dental and vision fully covered for employees, with partial coverage for dependents\nEquity: Stock option grant, with amount determined based on role and experience\n Retirement: 401(k) with match\nTime off: 3 weeks PTO plus company holidays and a paid winter break between Christmas and New Year's\n Growth: Ground-floor opportunity to build and scale the manufacturing and supply chain function as Captura grows","description_format":"text","description_chars":10068,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Supply Chain","Marine Resources","ESG & Carbon Accounting Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T19:31:11Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":11,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.405,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":100,"expected_fill_days":36,"reasons":["conf:1","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-03T05:54:40Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":175000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/captura-manufacturing-supply-chain-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/captura-manufacturing-supply-chain-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-03T08:43:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":12327,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-04T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1769585},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1769585"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcaptura-manufacturing-supply-chain-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcaptura-manufacturing-supply-chain-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcaptura-manufacturing-supply-chain-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/captura-manufacturing-supply-chain-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcaptura-manufacturing-supply-chain-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1257825}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"capturacorp.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1257825},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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