{"id":3487439,"url":"https://alion.io/job/castelion-materials-management-supervisor-2","title":"Materials Management Supervisor","company":{"id":1795053,"name":"Castelion","domain":"castelion.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/castelion","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Midland, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":83000,"max_usd":157000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":6333},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AS9100","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-29T19:19:32Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-29","last_verified_at":"2026-11-02T09:56:39Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"Why Castelion, Why Now \nCastelion is moving incredibly fast to develop and deliver advanced defense systems at a time when execution matters more than ever. We believe focus, ownership, and excellence are decisive advantages - and we're building a world-class team to turn bold ideas into real capability. \nThis is a rare opportunity to join at an early stage, where you'll have significant ownership, collaborate with exceptional teammates, and make a direct, measurable impact on our mission and the future of the company - regardless of your function. \nMaterials Management Supervisor\nAs a Materials Management Supervisor, you will lead Castelion's Materials Management organization, encompassing Inventory, Shipping, and Receiving, and own day-to-day execution across these functions. Your team will be responsible for receiving, inventory control, shipping, staging, kitting, production inventory transfers, and the timely movement of material across the company.\nThis is a people-leadership role that requires strong operational judgment. You will set priorities and expectations, develop your team, drive accountability, and build scalable processes while remaining close enough to the operation to remove roadblocks and respond to critical production needs.\nThe right person brings proven leadership experience, strong manufacturing and inventory-management fundamentals, and the ability to build structure in a fast-paced environment where priorities and processes continue to evolve.\nResponsibilities\nLead, coach, and develop the Materials Management team across Inventory, Shipping, and Receiving, establishing clear expectations for safety, quality, urgency, inventory accuracy, customer service, and execution.\nOwn daily Materials Management operations across receiving, inventory control, shipping, putaway, material movement, staging, kitting, replenishment, and production support.\nSet team priorities and performance goals, allocate resources, provide feedback, address performance gaps, and identify staffing and development needs as the organization scales.\nOwn the timely and accurate movement of material across Castelion, including inbound receipts, production inventory transfers, intersite transfers, and outbound shipments.\nDevelop and maintain standard work, operating procedures, and scalable processes across Materials Management.\nEstablish and monitor KPIs for inventory accuracy, receiving and shipping performance, material availability, transaction accuracy, cycle counts, and transfer execution.\nMaintain accurate physical and systematic inventory and ensure material movements are promptly reflected in Castelion's ERP/MES systems.\nOwn cycle counting, inventory reconciliation, discrepancy investigation, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.\nEnsure disciplined inventory-control and traceability practices, including location control, FIFO, lot, serial, and shelf-life requirements.\nOwn shipping and receiving execution, including prioritization, packaging, documentation, carrier coordination, inbound processing, tracking, and on-time performance.\nPartner with Production and Manufacturing Engineering to ensure material is staged, transferred, and available in alignment with production priorities.\nCollaborate with Supply Chain, Planning, Quality, Engineering, and Production to resolve shortages, discrepancies, nonconforming material, transportation constraints, and other material risks.\nIdentify and eliminate bottlenecks across receiving, storage, picking, staging, kitting, shipping, and material movement.\nDevelop warehouse layouts, storage strategies, point-of-use inventory, replenishment methods, and material-flow processes that support increasing production rates.\nDrive continuous improvement of ERP, MES, WMS, shipping, receiving, and inventory-management processes.\nEnsure proper control, storage, identification, segregation, packaging, and handling of high-value, sensitive, hazardous, and traceable materials.\nMaintain organized, safe, and audit-ready Materials Management areas and ensure compliance with applicable quality, export-control, government property, transportation, and company requirements.\nIdentify staffing, equipment, space, transportation, and process requirements necessary to support production growth.\nCommunicate material risks, team performance, operational constraints, and improvement priorities clearly to leadership.\nRemain actively engaged with frontline operations to remove roadblocks and support critical production requirements.\nBasic Qualifications\n5+ years of experience in materials management, inventory control, warehouse operations, manufacturing logistics, shipping and receiving, or supply chain operations.\n3+ years of direct people-management experience leading Materials Management, Inventory, Shipping, Receiving, Warehouse, Logistics, or Production teams.\nDemonstrated ability to build and lead high-performing operational teams, including setting expectations, managing performance, developing employees, and driving accountability.\nExperience leading operations in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with changing priorities and a high degree of autonomy.\nStrong understanding of receiving, inventory control, picking, kitting, shipping, material transfers, cycle counting, reconciliation, and material traceability.\nExperience managing high-value or highly traceable inventory and investigating inventory discrepancies through root cause and corrective action.\nExperience owning shipping, receiving, logistics, or material-transfer execution in support of manufacturing operations.\nHands-on experience with ERP, MRP, MES, or WMS systems and a strong understanding of the relationship between physical material movement and system transactions.\nExperience developing standard work, operational processes, and performance metrics.\nDemonstrated ability to use operational data to identify problems, prioritize improvements, and drive results.\nExperience partnering across Production, Engineering, Quality, Planning, and Supply Chain to resolve material constraints and support production priorities.\nStrong operational judgment, organization, and written and verbal communication skills.\nAbility to work hands-on in warehouse and production environments and lift and move materials up to 50 lbs.\nAbility to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued security clearance. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.\nPreferred Skills and Experience\nBachelor's degree in supply chain management, operations, manufacturing, logistics, business administration, or a related field.\nExperience building or scaling Materials Management teams encompassing Inventory, Shipping, and Receiving in a rapidly growing organization.\nExperience in aerospace, defense, space, automotive, or other highly regulated advanced manufacturing environments.\nExperience supporting a transition from development or low-volume production to higher production rates.\nExperience managing supervisors, leads, or multiple operational functions.\nExperience implementing or significantly improving ERP, MES, WMS, or shipping-management systems.\nExperience with serialized, lot-controlled, shelf-life-controlled, hazardous, energetic, or otherwise controlled materials.\nKnowledge of AS9100, government property requirements, and inventory or quality audits.\nExperience designing warehouse layouts, storage systems, lineside inventory, point-of-use material, and replenishment processes.\nExperience with domestic and international shipping, freight, carrier management, and regulated or hazardous-material transportation.\nKnowledge of Lean manufacturing, 5S, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methodologies.\nExperience with production rate readiness, capacity planning, and material-flow optimization.\nForklift certification and experience operating material-handling equipment.\nActive U.S. Government security clearance.\nCastelion offers a generous benefits package. Please refer to the bottom of our Careers page for more details. \nOther Duties \nPlease note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. \nAdditional Eligibility Requirements \nThis position may require access to classified information or restricted U.S. Government sites, systems, or information, as determined by the Company and/or applicable U.S. Government requirements. If the position is so designated, your employment in the role may be contingent upon your ability to obtain and maintain the required U.S. Government security clearance or other government authorization, and to satisfy any citizenship or other eligibility requirements imposed by applicable law, regulation, executive order, or government contract requirements. You will be notified if and when such requirements apply. \nAffirmative Action/EEO Statement \nCastelion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. \nCastelion is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and hiring process. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, participate in the interview process, or otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact . 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