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About the Role

We are commissioning a new 24/7 pilot production line at our Alameda facility and need someone to own it end-to-end. You will run the line as a production operation, focusing on safety, output, yield, uptime, people, and material flow. You will be accountable for the plant's metal production.

Responsibilities

• Own production, planning and executing production campaigns against output targets.
• Run daily operations of the pilot line, including furnace operations, casting, and downstream handling.
• Track and improve yield, owning the mass balance and identifying loss mechanisms.
• Build and run the preventive maintenance program, tracking equipment condition and managing spares inventory.
• Build the operator team by screening, interviewing, hiring, and developing training programs.
• Manage operator shift scheduling and coverage.
• Track feedstock and inventory, managing receipt, storage, staging, and consumption.
• Enforce safe work practices and lead incident investigations.
• Support environmental and permitting compliance.
• Log run data, flag deviations, and feed operational learnings back into process development.

Requirements

• Degree in metallurgical, chemical, materials, or mechanical engineering (or equivalent hands-on depth).
• 5+ years in production operations at a high-temperature metals or chemicals plant (smelting, foundry, specialty alloys, glass, or similar).
• Direct experience supervising hourly operators: hiring, training, scheduling, performance management.
• Track record of owning and improving production metrics (yield, recovery, OEE, downtime).
• Hands-on maintenance fluency, including reading P&IDs and troubleshooting.
• Comfortable in a startup environment with evolving systems and processes.

Skills

• Production operations
• Furnace operations
• Casting
• Mass balance tracking
• Preventive maintenance
• Operator team building
• Shift scheduling
• Inventory management
• Safety enforcement
• Process development
• Troubleshooting

Location

• Alameda, CA

Work Type

• On-site
• 24/7

Experience Level

• 5+ years

Education Level

• Degree in metallurgical, chemical, materials, or mechanical engineering

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary

Benefits

• Meaningful equity

About the Company

• Solcoa Industries is an American rare earth metals producer headquartered in Alameda, California.
• We convert rare-earth oxides and magnet manufacturing scrap into high-purity metals and alloys essential for electrification, automation, and defense.
• We are rebuilding the Western supply chain for these critical materials with a proprietary process that aims for lower costs and reduced environmental impact compared to conventional methods.