Manufacturing Operations Engineer

Manufacturing Operations Engineer

American factories deserve a supply chain that moves as fast as they do. The next generation of American manufacturing is being built right now. Nox Metals is the supply chain behind it.

We use software and automation to supply metal to American factories faster than the industry thought possible. Our mission is to reindustrialize America.

We're hiring a Manufacturing Operations Engineer to live on the floor of our Ferndale facility and attack bottlenecks one by one until throughput, quality, and safety climb every week. This role comes with company equity.

You will:

Walk the floor daily and find the next constraint: a saw, a material move, a changeover, a handoff

Attack bottlenecks one at a time and measure the gain in throughput, quality, or safety

Fix problems at the root so they stay fixed, not just for today's order

Solve problems for extreme scale

Instrument the floor: cycle times, changeover times, scrap, downtime

Design fixtures, layouts, and workflows that cut wasted motion and wait time

Work with our software team to turn floor data into decisions

Document what you change so training keeps up with the process

You should be:

Experienced in high-throughput, high-mix production, not years-long contracts

Fluent in a short lead time frame of reference. Most of the industry thinks in months. We think in days.

Organized and urgent, someone who moves fast and hates waiting

High agency, able to handle big items alone and ask for help when needed

Hands-on: comfortable with saws, material handling, and getting dirty

Data-driven, someone who measures before and after every change

Good with AI tools

Low ego

Awesome attitude

Mission-driven, someone who wants to rebuild American manufacturing for decades

This role is full time, in person in Detroit.