Jobs at MP Materials

Manage HR strategy and operations for the Mountain Pass location, including recruitment, onboarding, training, performance management, employee relations, compliance, workforce planning, and leadership development. Advise managers and employees, resolve workplace issues, analyze HR metrics, support engagement and DEI initiatives, and maintain compliant HR policies across multiple sites and jurisdictions.

Design, implement, and deploy robotic cells, automation systems, and components for advanced manufacturing. Develop robot-control software, optimize layouts and gripper designs, conduct system testing, troubleshoot defects, and document solutions. Collaborate with equipment vendors and manufacturing teams, support installation and commissioning, train operations and maintenance personnel, and improve safety, quality, efficiency, and productivity across automated processes.

Leads applications engineering for rare earth permanent magnets, serving as a technical expert for customers and translating needs into product requirements. Coordinates cross-functional projects, samples, prototypes, quotations, and customer integrations. Develops quoting tools, supports sales, identifies product value opportunities, and synthesizes market trends. Requires expertise in magnet properties, manufacturing processes, customer engagement, technical specifications, and concurrent project management.

Develops, implements, troubleshoots, and optimizes process control systems for a rare earth manufacturing facility. Responsibilities include advanced process control, PLC and HMI programming, SCADA and instrumentation maintenance, root cause analysis, system upgrades, commissioning, documentation, and real-time production support. The role collaborates with engineering, operations, maintenance, and supply chain teams to improve safety, reliability, throughput, and process consistency.

Supports the CEO by managing calendars, travel, logistics, meetings, events, speaking engagements, briefs, research, follow-up, and professional social media. Coordinates internal and external stakeholders, tracks priorities and deadlines, monitors relevant industry and policy developments, and prepares executive-facing materials. The role requires discretion, strong writing, organizational skills, sound judgment, and approximately 25% travel with the CEO.

Designs, implements, and maintains industrial control systems, SCADA/HMI platforms, PLC applications, data historians, and OT networks. Integrates industrial data with MES, ERP, cloud, and analytics platforms while supporting OT cybersecurity and IT/OT convergence. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, documentation, FAT/SAT testing, commissioning, system integration, and change management. Leads controls architecture initiatives and mentors junior engineers and technicians in high-availability manufacturing environments.

Manage the general ledger accounting function and monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes. Oversee journal entries, reconciliations, financial analysis, internal controls, SOX compliance, audits, and U.S. GAAP application. Coordinate cross-functional close activities, resolve reconciliation items, improve accounting processes, support system initiatives, and coach accounting team members. Partner with Finance, Operations, Tax, Treasury, and reporting teams to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.

Manages procurement for major industrial capital projects, including equipment, materials, construction, and service packages. Responsibilities include sourcing strategy, RFQs and RFPs, bid evaluation, commercial analysis, negotiations, contract terms, supplier performance, expediting, delivery coordination, risk mitigation, and procurement documentation. The role collaborates with engineering, construction, project management, logistics, legal, supply chain, EPC partners, and suppliers to deliver projects safely, on time, and within budget.

Develops and optimizes rare-earth permanent magnet materials and manufacturing processes, including casting, powder processing, pressing, and sintering. Designs and conducts pilot-scale experiments, performs materials characterization using SEM, XRD, and related techniques, analyzes data, and recommends process improvements. Collaborates with production teams to scale processes, prepares technical reports and SOPs, troubleshoots equipment, and supports safe, compliant operations.

Designs, deploys, and maintains operational technology infrastructure, including SCADA/HMI systems, data historians, PLC integrations, industrial networks, and secure OT/IT connectivity. Supports commissioning, troubleshooting, documentation, system architecture reviews, and contractor-led infrastructure installation. Collaborates with IT, cybersecurity, controls, operations, and capital projects teams in a manufacturing and process environment.

Lead development and scale-up of rare earth metal and alloy production processes using electrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical methods. Design laboratory and pilot experiments, model thermodynamics and electrochemical behavior, characterize materials, and translate research into production-ready processes. Collaborate with R&D, manufacturing, quality, EHS, universities, strategic partners, and government laboratories while documenting technical knowledge and ensuring safe, compliant operations.

Designs and supports low- and medium-voltage electrical systems for industrial facilities, including distribution, controls, grounding, protection, and documentation. Leads projects from concept through construction, commissioning, startup, and operation. Reviews contractor submittals, performs power system studies, supports field engineering, develops maintenance procedures, and collaborates with process, mechanical, controls, civil, operations, and construction teams while ensuring compliance with electrical codes and safety standards.

Supports plant PLC/SCADA operations, develops HMI graphics and control logic, troubleshoots instrumentation and process equipment, manages historian data, and designs control strategies. The engineer supports capital projects, construction activities, process optimization, network infrastructure, and cross-functional plant improvements in an onsite heavy industrial environment with shared off-shift on-call duties.

Develop, validate, and optimize materials characterization methods for rare earth permanent magnets. Analyze metallurgical and magnetic specimens, automate data analysis with custom code, troubleshoot and maintain laboratory instruments, interpret results, document methods, train technicians, and ensure compliance with safety and environmental standards. The role supports advanced manufacturing development and requires expertise in materials science, metallurgy, analytical techniques, programming, and data interpretation.

Designs, fabricates, assembles, and commissions manufacturing equipment and automation systems for a greenfield facility. Creates CAD models, supports FEA and durability simulations, integrates equipment into facility processes, evaluates suppliers, performs testing, and maintains safety, compliance, and change-control documentation. Collaborates with engineers, manufacturing teams, suppliers, and EHS specialists throughout equipment development and plant commissioning.

Leads materials characterization within Magnet Technology, overseeing analytical laboratories, methods development, advanced characterization, laboratory infrastructure, and technical investigations. Manages multidisciplinary teams and supports R&D, manufacturing scale-up, quality, and production through method validation, root-cause analysis, data management, automation, and continuous improvement. The role establishes laboratory standards, develops technical talent, and delivers reliable analytical insights for rare earth permanent magnet development and manufacturing.

Leads strategic account management for government customers, military branches, and defense and aerospace contractors. Responsibilities include managing customer relationships, responding to federal solicitations, negotiating complex contracts, advising on procurement processes, coordinating product rollouts, communicating customer needs internally, and supporting product development. The role requires deep defense-sector procurement expertise, established government relationships, and on-site work in Washington, DC with regular customer and facility visits.

Designs and commissions equipment, material-handling systems, and plant layouts for a greenfield rare-earth manufacturing facility. Leads projects from concept through sourcing, construction, installation, testing, and operation. Performs CAD, FEA, durability simulations, technical reviews, supplier evaluations, and compliance audits. Collaborates with process, controls, manufacturing, and EHS teams to develop automated processes, ensure safety, document designs, and improve uptime, quality, and worker safety.

Supports electrical OPEX and continuous improvement projects in advanced manufacturing facilities. Responsibilities include energy audits, electrical upgrades, system validation, commissioning, root-cause analysis, interpreting schematics, and improving reliability and operating costs. The role collaborates with operations, engineering, EHS, and finance teams while ensuring compliance with NEC, NFPA 70E, OSHA, IEEE, and site safety requirements.

Leads procurement strategy and execution for major capital projects, managing over $300 million in annual direct and indirect spend. Develops sourcing, contracting, EPC supplier, and project procurement strategies; negotiates agreements; manages supplier relationships; improves long-lead materials processes; ensures compliance, risk management, reporting accuracy, and cost-effective project delivery. Partners with construction, engineering, project leadership, suppliers, and contractors across industrial facilities.