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title: 'Procurement Manager at Solcoa Industries'
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# Procurement Manager at Solcoa Industries

- **Company:** Solcoa Industries
- **Location:** Alameda, CA
- **Compensation:** $100k–$145k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/solcoa/10ecaf3a-3082-4ced-8de1-a83cfee6b2fd

## Job description

Making the metals powering the world Solcoa is building the next generation of American metalmaking, starting with rare earths — the metals of power and motion. We've developed a new chemistry that converts rare earth oxides into high-purity metals — the materials inside every EV, fighter jet, wind turbine, and data center — cleaner, cheaper, and faster than any conventional process. Now we're scaling it to thousands of tonnes of annual production.

## The role

The Procurement Manager will own the purchasing that keeps Solcoa’s development, equipment builds and plant operations moving. You’ll work closely with engineering, research and operations to get the right equipment, materials and services delivered on time, to specification and at the right cost. This is a hands-on role for someone who can solve urgent sourcing problems while building the supplier relationships and purchasing systems we need as we scale.

## What you’ll do

- Own purchasing from request through delivery for process equipment, custom fabricated parts, raw materials, consumables, spare parts and outside services.
- Partner with engineering, research and operations to turn drawings, bills of materials and production plans into clear sourcing requirements and purchasing schedules.
- Find, qualify and develop suppliers. Run RFQs, compare technical and commercial proposals, and negotiate pricing, payment terms, lead times and warranties.
- Stay on top of open orders and long-lead items. Follow up directly with suppliers, resolve delays and coordinate freight and receiving to keep builds and production moving.
- Build reliable sources for critical materials and components, including alternate suppliers where single-source dependencies threaten cost, quality or delivery.
- Work with technical teams to resolve supplier quality issues, substitutions and nonconforming deliveries; maintain specifications, certificates and purchasing records.
- Establish practical purchasing processes, approval workflows and supplier records. Keep purchase orders, delivery dates, inventory needs and spend visible to the team.
- Track supplier performance and total landed cost, identify savings and standardization opportunities.

## What you bring

Required

- 2+ years of procurement, purchasing or supply chain experience in manufacturing, industrial equipment, chemicals, metals or a related technical environment.
- Experience sourcing both custom parts or capital equipment and the materials and consumables needed to keep a facility running.
- Ability to work with engineering drawings, bills of materials and technical specifications, and clarify requirements with engineers and suppliers.
- Strong commercial judgment and a track record of negotiating favorable terms while protecting quality and delivery.
- Highly organized, with the follow-through to manage multiple orders, changing priorities and urgent sourcing needs.
- Hands-on experience with purchasing or ERP systems and spreadsheets; comfortable building processes in a fast-paced startup.

## Preferred

- Experience supporting a pilot plant, new facility buildout or manufacturing scale-up.
- Familiarity with high-temperature equipment, vacuum systems, refractory materials, specialty metals or chemical feedstocks.
- Experience with domestic and international sourcing, freight coordination and import documentation.
- Experience establishing a procurement function or improving purchasing and inventory systems at an early-stage company.

Location This is a full-time, on-site position in Alameda, California.

## Compensation & benefits

- Competitive base salary.
- Generous stock options.
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance.
- Company-provided lunch daily.
- Visa sponsorship available if needed.

## About Solcoa Industries

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Solcoa Industries converts end-of-life magnets and magnet production waste from EVs, data centers, wind turbines, and defense directly into high-purity rare earth metals in America, bypassing the traditional Chinese supply chain.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Angel-backed startup)
- **Headquarters**: Alameda, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Hooman Reza Nezhad (Co-founder, CEO) and Artem Iurkovskyi (Co-founder, CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Rare earth metals recycling and manufacturing; critical minerals supply chain.
- **Target customers**: B2B – OEMs, magnet producers, defense contractors, and supply chain partners in EV, renewable energy, data center, and aerospace sectors.
- **Mission**: “Bring rare earths home” – establish a domestic, carbon-zero source of rare earth metals to reduce Western dependence on China.

## Products & Services
- **NdPr Metal Alloy (Sample E-44-3)**: High-purity neodymium-praseodymium metal derived directly from scrap magnets. Available now for testing and production trials.
- **Heavy Rare Earths**: Coming soon.
- **SWARF Processing**: Conversion of magnet cutting waste (swarf) directly into magnet-ready metal.
- **Primary Oxides Processing**: Metal production from refined oxides.
- **Scrap Magnet Procurement**: Solcoa sources end-of-life magnets as feedstock, offering a demagnetization line and on-site storage.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding undisclosed; backed by “Strategic Angels across defense, robotics, and…” (no named investors disclosed).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Strategic angel investors in defense and robotics; partnerships with OEMs and magnet producers (not named).
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Active 35,000 sqft production facility in Alameda
  - 10 tonnes-per-annum REE metal production line under construction (current line: 3 tpa)
  - 8 employees with 9 open positions – headcount growth expected
  - Stated goal: “scale to meet one-third of US demand”

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary process**: Solcoa is one of the only companies in the world that converts magnet waste directly into magnet-ready metal, bypassing the intermediate steps that typically require China.
- **Faster, cleaner, cheaper**: Claims to be faster, cleaner, and cheaper than conventional processes.
- **In-house capabilities**: Full metallurgical lab, analytical equipment (ICP-OES, SEM-EDS, LECO), high-temperature furnaces, and fabrication tools – all under one roof.
- **National security angle**: Reduces US reliance on Chinese rare earth supply, a critical geopolitical moat.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale production**: Ramping up to a 10-tpa line and expanding the Alameda facility.
- **New chemistries**: Developing entirely new processes for rare earth metal production in America.
- **Talent acquisition**: Hiring engineers, R&D technicians, plant operators, and procurement specialists to build a world-class team.
- **Customer engagement**: Offering metal samples and production trials to OEMs and magnet producers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, obsessive team (8 people) solving a deeply technical and mission-critical problem. Described as “truly obsessive people working on what might be the most important industrial problem of our time.”
- **Work model**: On-site in SF Bay Area (Alameda) – all current roles require physical presence.
- **Compensation**: Highly competitive base salaries ($100K–$350K for engineering roles), stock options, and strong benefits.
- **Impact**: Direct contribution to Western industrial independence and climate goals (carbon-zero metals).
- **Engineering focus**: Heavy emphasis on metallurgy, process engineering, and high-temperature chemistry; chance to build from scratch.

## Sources
1. [solcoaindustries.com](https://solcoaindustries.com/)
2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/solcoa](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/solcoa)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/solcoaindustries)
4. [solcoaindustries.com/team](https://www.solcoaindustries.com/team)
5. [solcoaindustries.com/capabilities](https://www.solcoaindustries.com/capabilities)

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