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title: 'Energy Production Planner at Redwood Materials'
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# Energy Production Planner at Redwood Materials

- **Company:** Redwood Materials
- **Location:** Mccarran, NV
- **Posted:** 2026-10-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-26
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/redwoodmaterials/jobs/6222739004?gh_jid=6222739004

## Job description

## About Redwood Materials

Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, on a simple but radical idea: the critical minerals powering the energy transition already exist. They just need to come back. Today Redwood is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America — recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain. On the energy side, Redwood has deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world, delivering power to AI data centers in months rather than years using proprietary energy architecture engineered entirely in-house. The company is profitable, the market it operates in is projected to grow 20 to 50 times over the next decade, and Redwood is the only company with the supply chain, the technology, and the operational scale to lead it.

Energy Production Planner

The Production Planner is responsible for translating demand and engineering inputs into an executable production plan for Energy Operations at BMC1, keeping builds on schedule and the floor free from planning-driven stoppages. This is a fully on-site role at BMC1. The role owns the monthly production planning cycle, creates the daily and weekly build plan and weekly clear-to-build status, manages NPI trials, and performs staffing, capacity, and planned-downtime scheduling in partnership with engineering. The position partners closely with the Materials Management team, engineering, quality, and Global Supply Chain Management to validate material arrival and receipt against the plan. Success in this role requires strong analytical attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple concurrent planning workstreams in a fast-paced environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

- Create and publish the daily and weekly build plan, confirming and communicating weekly clear-to-build status based on material, labor, and equipment readiness
- Manage NPI trials on the production line, tracking BOM revisions between ERP and PLM and coordinating with engineering and procurement on discrepancies
- Partner with the Materials Management team to validate material arrival and receipt against the build plan, and translate plan needs into material priorities and need dates
- Perform staffing and capacity analysis to align labor and line capacity with the production plan
- Schedule planned downtime based on engineering requirements, coordinating with engineering and production to minimize schedule impact
- Publish the monthly build plan, gathering demand inputs, validating MRP outputs, capturing E&O risk, and flagging supply risk with quantified impact to the build plan
- Coordinate with engineering, quality, and Global Supply Management on schedule-impacting issues

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, or a related field; equivalent experience considered
- 2+ years of experience in production planning, supply chain, or manufacturing operations; energy storage or electronics manufacturing experience preferred
- Working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems, Oracle preferred
- Ability to interpret supply chain, production, and capacity data to assess build risk and staffing needs across a multi-component bill of materials
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent planning priorities, including build plan creation, NPI trials, and capacity and downtime scheduling, in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Effective written and verbal communication skills to coordinate across engineering, quality, and supply chain stakeholders

The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

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## About Redwood Materials

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Redwood Materials recycles lithium-ion batteries to recover critical minerals and deploys large-scale energy storage systems, building a domestic circular supply chain for batteries.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Late-stage; Series E closed at $425M in October 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Carson City, Nevada, USA (with campuses in Northern Nevada, South Carolina, and an R&D center in San Francisco)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: JB Straubel (former Tesla CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Battery recycling, critical materials production, and energy storage
- **Target customers**: B2B – automotive OEMs, data center operators, utilities, and grid-scale energy storage buyers
- **Mission/purpose**: “Securing U.S. critical materials. Powering America’s energy future.” – building a resilient domestic supply chain for batteries and enabling the energy transition.

## Products & Services
- **Critical Materials Production**: Recovers lithium, nickel, cobalt, and copper from end-of-life batteries (recycling) and produces cathode active material at scale. [redwoodmaterials.com](https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/)
- **Redwood Energy**: Designs, integrates, and deploys large-scale energy storage systems (BESS) for data centers and the grid, using both new and repurposed batteries. [redwoodmaterials.com](https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/)
- **Battery Bin**: Consumer-facing recycling program launched in December 2025 to collect end-of-life batteries. [redwoodmaterials.com/about/](https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/about/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: ~$6 billion (as of October 2025, per Wikipedia)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised >$1.4B (over $1B in 2023 plus $425M Series E in 2025). Annual revenue not publicly disclosed.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners include Volkswagen Group of America, Panasonic, GM/Ultium Cells, Volvo, Amazon, Toyota, Southern Company, BMW of North America, Crusoe, Lime, Caterpillar, Isuzu. [redwoodmaterials.com](https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Opened South Carolina recycling campus (2025) and SF R&D center (2025)
  - Launched Redwood Energy storage division (2025)
  - Expanded into Europe (2022)
  - Recognized as Fast Company’s World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies (2024, 2026) and Time100 Climate (2024)
  - Active job postings: 79 (as of mid-2026), with monthly growth of +83.7% [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/redwood-materials)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Technology moat**: Recovers >95% of metals (nickel, cobalt, lithium, copper) from end-of-life batteries, creating a low-cost domestic source of critical materials.
- **Vertical integration**: Combines recycling, refining, cathode production, and energy storage deployment under one roof.
- **Strategic partnerships**: Deep relationships with nearly every major automotive OEM and energy companies, ensuring feedstock and offtake.
- **First-mover in U.S. battery circularity**: One of the largest domestic sources of critical minerals, reducing reliance on foreign supply chains.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale domestic battery material production and energy storage manufacturing to meet U.S. grid and EV demand.
- Expand Redwood Energy as a standalone business unit for utility and data center storage.
- Grow consumer recycling programs (Battery Bin) and deepen partnerships with automakers and energy companies.
- Continue R&D in advanced battery chemistries and recycling processes at the San Francisco innovation center.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: Employees are motivated by building a resilient U.S. energy future and solving climate challenges.
- **Pioneering environment**: Described as “pioneers, innovators, and collaborators” working on chemistry, materials science, automation, and advanced equipment design. [redwoodmaterials.com/join/](https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/join/)
- **Locations**: Multiple campuses – Tahoe (Northern Nevada), Carolina (South Carolina), and downtown San Francisco R&D center.
- **Growth opportunities**: Rapid scaling with 79+ open roles across engineering, operations, EPC, software, and business functions. Top talent sources include Tesla (207 alumni), Panasonic, Rivian, and Chewy.
- **Work style**: Hybrid/office presence expected at campuses; culture emphasizes making difficult decisions and implementing design constraints to drive impact.

## Sources
1. [redwoodmaterials.com](https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/)
2. [redwoodmaterials.com/about/](https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/about/)
3. [redwoodmaterials.com/join/](https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/join/)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/redwood-materials)
5. [wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_Materials)

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