Logistics Manager
Role Overview
The Logistics Manager will build and lead logistics across operating sites and capital projects.
The position combines leadership and hands-on work, including strategy, team management, partner relationships, and complex freight challenges.
The manager will be the senior logistics voice in discussions with procurement, engineering, capital projects, and site operations.
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About Mariana Minerals
Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company focused on supplying critical minerals for energy, AI, and defense technologies.
The company combines industry expertise with software, automation, and data-driven decision-making.
The role
The Logistics Manager will build and lead logistics across operating sites and capital projects.
The position combines leadership and hands-on work, including strategy, team management, partner relationships, and complex freight challenges.
The manager will be the senior logistics voice in discussions with procurement, engineering, capital projects, and site operations.
Strategy and leadership
- Set logistics strategy, mode selection, carrier network design, and 3PL partnership structure.
- Manage logistics coordinators and analysts, set priorities, review work, and develop the team.
- Own senior relationships with 3PL partners, freight forwarders, and carriers; negotiate master service agreements and performance standards.
- Evaluate dedicated capacity, rail access, and hub investments and analyze the scale at which they make economic sense.
- Advise cross-functional teams on logistics matters.
Execution and oversight
- Oversee freight execution for capital equipment, operating supplies, and direct materials across air, ocean, rail, and linehaul.
- Step in on complex, high-value, or time-critical shipments.
- Ensure compliance with customs, Incoterms, and international shipping regulations.
- Monitor freight spend, identify savings opportunities, and track carrier performance.
Systems and travel
- Own logistics reporting and visibility into shipment status, cost, and performance.
- Improve logistics processes, documentation standards, and system workflows.
- Travel regularly to operating and project sites.
Desired qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics, engineering, business, or a related field.
- 8–12 years of logistics or supply-chain experience, including at least 3 years in a leadership or management role.
- Deep experience across air, ocean, rail, and linehaul freight; international logistics and customs experience required.
- Experience managing 3PL relationships and freight-forwarder networks at a senior level.
- Ability to build and lead a team while remaining hands-on in execution.
- Quantitative analysis skills and ability to evaluate business cases for logistics investments and infrastructure decisions.
- Mining, industrial, chemical, or capital-project experience is strongly preferred.
- Comfort operating with ambiguity and limited structure and taking ownership.
Compensation
- Compensation range is USD 130,000–190,000 per year.
Company principles
The company emphasizes safety, ownership, simplifying and automating work, and open collaboration.
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