Jobs at Cyclic Materials

Designs, commissions, maintains, and improves electrical and control systems for industrial recycling operations. Leads troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, power distribution and energy-efficiency initiatives, and electrical projects from design through commissioning. Coordinates contractors and cross-functional engineering teams, ensures compliance with electrical standards and safety requirements, documents system changes, and mentors junior technical staff.

Develops regional commercial growth across rare earth, recycling, magnet, manufacturing, and industrial markets. Responsibilities include sourcing feedstock, securing supply and offtake agreements, managing strategic accounts, negotiating complex contracts, identifying partnerships, monitoring market intelligence, and representing the company with customers, suppliers, associations, government, and research stakeholders across multiple western U.S. states.

Supports the Account Executive by managing customer and supplier accounts, qualifying leads, coordinating quotes and orders, maintaining CRM records, tracking pipelines and forecasts, and facilitating commercial activity for rare earth recycling feedstock. The role coordinates with Operations, Logistics, Finance, Legal, and Technical teams to resolve issues, support onboarding, source materials, and build long-term industrial partnerships across the western United States.

Coordinates customer and supplier pickups, maintains CRM and ERP records, monitors orders, resolves shipment and pricing discrepancies, supports onboarding, prepares commercial reports, and assists sales administration. The role collaborates with commercial, logistics, operations, finance, customers, suppliers, and carriers to ensure accurate transactions, timely pickups, complete documentation, and effective commercial workflows across the rare earth materials supply chain.

Develop and execute commercial growth strategies across Japan, South Korea, and other Asian markets. Build relationships with suppliers, customers, recyclers, manufacturers, government agencies, and industry associations. Secure feedstock supply and product offtake agreements, negotiate complex commercial contracts, manage strategic accounts, identify market opportunities, provide market intelligence, and support regional expansion. The role requires extensive travel, fluent English and Japanese, and strong experience in industrial B2B business development, procurement, or strategic sales.

Leads domestic and international capital projects from site selection and planning through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, start-up, and operational handover. Owns project scope, budgets, schedules, contracts, governance, risk management, stakeholder coordination, regulatory compliance, and executive reporting. The role oversees industrial processing plant development, contractors, suppliers, technology partners, and cross-functional teams while ensuring safe, compliant, commercially viable, and sustainable project delivery.

Administer and improve Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, provide cross-functional user support, configure and customize ERP capabilities, manage enhancement requests, support implementations and integrations, develop documentation and training, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners across a growing multinational manufacturing organization.

Coordinates capital procurement from requisition through delivery, including RFQs, purchase orders, vendor documentation, ERP records, milestone tracking, expediting, logistics updates, project actions, approvals, and reporting. Supports vendor onboarding, commercial correspondence, process improvements, procurement metrics, workflow standardization, and ERP enhancements. Requires strong organization, attention to detail, communication, problem-solving, and the ability to manage changing priorities in an industrial or manufacturing environment.

Owns cost-accounting processes across Canadian and US manufacturing operations, including standard costing, inventory valuation, month-end close, production variance analysis, reconciliations, profitability analysis, budgeting, forecasting, capital-expenditure tracking, and fixed-asset accounting. Partners with operations, supply chain, engineering, procurement, and finance stakeholders to improve inventory accuracy, controls, cost visibility, margins, and operational decision-making.

Leads sourcing and procurement for major capital equipment, engineered systems, and project services. Responsibilities include developing sourcing strategies, managing RFQs and bid evaluations, negotiating commercial agreements, evaluating vendors, supporting project schedules, driving cost savings, and mitigating procurement risks. The role also helps build standardized capital procurement processes, templates, playbooks, metrics, and ERP improvements while collaborating with Engineering, Project Management, Operations, and vendors.

Design and specify mechanical equipment for rare-earth recycling plants, including sizing calculations, materials selection, fabrication drawings, piping and plant layouts. Lead equipment procurement, vendor technical reviews, commissioning, maintenance planning, and continuous process improvement. Collaborate with laboratory, operations, contractors, and vendors; manage project deadlines; mentor junior engineers; and travel internationally approximately 25–50% of the time.

Lead and deliver multidisciplinary R&D projects for rare-earth recycling, owning scope, schedule, budget, risks, stage-gates and stakeholder alignment. Provide hands-on solvent extraction and hydrometallurgy technical judgment, design test campaigns, support scale-up and pilot trials, and translate R&D outcomes into commercialization and plant-ready implementation plans while ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.

Lead scale-up and commercialization of hydrometallurgical processes from lab to pilot to commercial plants. Develop process understanding, models, mass/energy balances, design basis, and scale-up strategies. Design and support test programs, commissioning, startup, and early operations; analyze data to drive engineering decisions and mentor junior engineers.

The Mechanical Engineering Lead oversees mechanical engineering requirements for capital projects, ensuring designs meet specifications while providing technical leadership and quality assurance throughout project phases.

The Electrical Engineering Lead oversees external design partners, defining requirements and validating designs for electrical systems in capital projects while ensuring safety, reliability, and compliance with engineering standards.

The Scientist will develop and optimize metallization processes for rare earth elements, perform experiments, and support R&D efforts in metallization technologies.

The Principal Metallurgist will oversee process deployment and optimization for recycling rare earths, mentor younger staff, and support plant operations. Key duties include managing test programs and metallurgical performance reporting to enhance process efficiency and meet client specifications.

Support development, commissioning, and optimization of an Arizona rare-earth recycling plant. Lead process engineering for metal recovery, develop operating philosophies and feedstock recipes, run process simulations and mass/energy balances, support safety reviews (HAZID/HAZOP), perform CAPEX/OPEX trade-offs, equipment specification, commissioning, RCFA, reliability improvements, and collaborate with operations, maintenance, suppliers, and Process Technology.

Design and execute hydrometallurgical research and process-development programs for rare earth recovery. Plan and run bench and pilot tests, analyze data and metallurgical accounting, support scale-up and plant operations, collaborate with cross-functional teams, document results, and ensure safety and compliance. Travel up to 30% for trials and partner engagements.

The Engineering Manager oversees multi-disciplinary engineering activities, ensuring project deliverables meet safety, budget, and timeline standards, while managing internal resources and external partnerships across capital projects.