Production Associate

About Redwood Materials Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling - keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.

The Production Associate will support the safe and efficient movement, processing, and handling of materials throughout Redwood Materials’ McCarran operations. Redwood receives a wide variety of end-of-life batteries and battery-containing products, recovers critical minerals and other valuable materials, and transforms those materials into new battery materials and energy-storage products for customers. Production Associates support this closed-loop process by operating production equipment, moving materials, maintaining accurate inventory records, and preparing finished materials and products for storage or shipment.

This role works in a collaborative, fast-paced manufacturing environment and is responsible for following established safety, quality, production, and material-handling requirements.

• Support day-to-day operations of continuously running production lines, including material sampling, equipment monitoring, material movement, and performing actions within Ignition and other Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs).
• Operate and train on material-processing and manufacturing equipment, which may include material-conveyance systems, shredding and milling equipment, screening systems, separation equipment, packaging equipment, and other production machinery.
• Operate and train on powered industrial trucks, including but not limited to forklifts, reach trucks, pallet jacks, and other material-handling equipment.
• Pick, stage, load, and deliver materials and inventory required for production areas.
• Receive inbound shipments of end-of-life batteries, raw materials, packaging supplies, maintenance parts, and engineering equipment.
• Support the movement of materials between receiving, production, processing, packaging, storage, and shipping areas.
• Prepare finished battery materials and energy-storage products for storage, internal transfer, or customer shipment.
• Verify material identification, labels, quantities, weights, lot information, and associated documentation.
• Maintain accurate data and transactions within a Warehouse Management System, Manufacturing Execution System, or other inventory and production-tracking systems.
• Generate or complete reports and documentation needed to support operational and management decisions.
• Participate in physical inventory audits, cycle counts, material verification, and reconciliation activities to ensure inventory accuracy.
• Follow established material-flow strategies to improve operational efficiency and minimize production downtime.
• Monitor materials and equipment for abnormalities and promptly report safety, quality, equipment, or process concerns.
• Support production startups, shutdowns, changeovers, cleaning activities, and routine equipment inspections.
• Perform basic production and material-handling tasks in accordance with standard operating procedures and training.
• Support and model quality-control practices to ensure materials and finished products meet production, customer, and safety standards.
• Identify and properly contain damaged, mislabeled, contaminated, or otherwise nonconforming materials.
• Maintain clean, organized, and safe production, warehouse, and material-staging areas.
• Follow all requirements related to hazardous-material handling, personal protective equipment, lockout/tagout, traffic control, and powered industrial truck operation.
• Foster a culture of safety and compliance, with a strong focus on the safe use of production and material-handling equipment.
• Work collaboratively with Production, Quality, Maintenance, Warehouse, Logistics, Engineering, and site leadership teams.
• Participate in training, cross-training, and continuous-improvement activities.
• Perform other production, packaging, warehouse, or material-handling duties as assigned.