Advanced materials manufacturer scaling digital operations and predictive maintenance
Materion is a century-old materials science company (founded 1931, public since 1972) with 3,000 employees across 32 global sites serving aerospace, defense, medical, and electronics markets. The tech stack reflects a manufacturing-heavy operation — SAP, PLCs, CMMS, SPC — now being modernized with Azure cloud integration and AI predictive maintenance models. Hiring is concentrated in manufacturing (51 roles) and engineering (33), with a notable push into OT systems integration and cost reduction, signaling a shift toward IoT-enabled factories and data-driven production optimization.
Notable leadership hires: Customer Service Team Lead, Manufacturing Systems Lead
Materion manufactures high-performance alloys, beryllium products, precision optics, thin-film coatings, and composite materials for electronics, aerospace, and defense customers across 66 countries. The company generates over $1.7 billion in annual sales and operates a complex global supply chain with manufacturing footprint in the US, China, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and Liechtenstein. Current focus areas include reducing equipment downtime, lowering cost of poor quality (COPQ), improving EHS and export compliance, and scaling manufacturing capacity — all supported by active infrastructure projects in cloud migration (Azure) and emerging AI applications in maintenance prediction and quality management.
Core systems: SAP, PLC, CMMS, SPC, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Workday, Ariba. Cloud: AWS, Azure, Azure Stack HCI. Data/analytics: Minitab, OneStream, Power BI (adopting). Lab/process: ICP-OES, LIMS, CNC, Inventor.
Azure cloud/IoT integration, AI predictive maintenance models, OT systems implementation, COPQ reduction, quality management system upgrades, and manufacturing digital infrastructure modernization.
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