Director, Supply Chain (Undersea Dominance)

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years. ABOUT THE TEAM Anduril is fielding the next generation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) to tackle the extremely challenging industry demands of seabed exploration. Anduril has brought to the market a unique, ultra-long-range, full-ocean-depth platform, and a completely refreshed maritime vehicle and flexible manufacturing architecture that scales from "large" to "extra-large" vehicle sizes. Today, Anduril is executing on multi-million-dollar contracts while simultaneously performing Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) AUV operations. As our team continues to quickly grow, we are looking for motivated candidates that are inspired to work within an extremely energetic, creative, and innovative team that is passionate about subsea robotics and exploring the open ocean. We work in a highly dynamic environment where collaboration and idea sharing are a way of life. ABOUT THE JOB We are looking for a Director of Global Supply Chain to join our rapidly growing team supporting the Dive-XL Product . In this role, based in Costa Mesa, CA , you will be responsible for building and leading the supply chain function, ensuring material, capacity, and supplier readiness are in place ahead of every rate increase, every new product version, at all global production sites. You will set the multi-year strategy for how the function evolves, spanning org design, process architecture, systems roadmap, and talent, while staying close enough to the work to personally unblock the hardest constraints and represent supply chain credibly to executive leadership. This will require deep expertise in strategic sourcing, production planning, supplier development, and supply chain systems architecture, along with a proven track record of scaling operations across global manufacturing sites. If you are someone who is energized by building a function that becomes a durable competitive advantage, someone who can be in the details on the highest-stakes shortages and escalations while simultaneously developing the leaders and organization that can increasingly handle them without you, then this role is for you. Reporting to the Global Head of Production, Undersea Dominance, you will operate within a matrix structure with dotted-line responsibilities into corporate Supply Chain leadership. This is not a role where you delegate and observe. You will own the outcome end to end. WHAT YOU’LL DO Further Deepen & Stand Up Undersea Dominance Supply Chain Function • Build an integrated, resilient supply chain that supports product development, production ramp, • sustained manufacturing, customer delivery, supplier quality, inventory performance, and total cost of • ownership. • Build the integrated plan for standing up the function: phased by production milestone, with entry and • exit criteria, named owners, and hard dates. Work backward from production start and each rate step • to define required readiness in people, process, systems, supplier qualification, and inventory position. • Develop and establish demand and S&OP process/governance. • Own the risk register, dependency map, and critical path, along with the governance around them: • readiness and gate reviews, plus an executive cadence that gives leadership real status without • generating theater. • Write the operating model: planning cadences, material call and shortage escalation, receiving and • inspection flow, kitting and line-feed, cycle counting, change control, and decision rights for each. • Own the capital, tooling, and infrastructure requests supply chain depends on (storage footprint, • material handling, receiving and inspection capacity