Director of Supply Chain - Undersea Dominance

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), sequenced against facility construction.
• Partner and collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, Program Management,
• and Business Development across global suppliers and manufacturing sites.

Drive Material and Supplier Readiness

• Drive supplier readiness with Sourcing, Product Sourcing Engineering, and Supplier Quality:
• qualification, capacity reservation, tooling, and dual-source coverage completed ahead of need dates,
• not in parallel with production.
• Own the readiness sequence for manufacturing BOM release, including BOM risk assessment and
• alternate component strategy for constrained and long-lead parts.
• Define and drive the metrics that matter: clear-to-build, material availability, schedule attainment,
• supplier on-time delivery, and inventory accuracy. Hold the team to root-causing misses rather than
• expediting around them.
• Serve as the senior supply chain voice at the site. Own executive relationships across Sourcing,
• Manufacturing, Engineering, Finance, and Deployment Ops, and translate material shortages, capacity
• limits, and supplier risk into clear recommendations for leadership and stakeholders.

Turn the Startup into a Day-to-Day Operation

• Convert the standup effort into a durable operating function — replace one-off heroics and manual
• workarounds with standard cadences, documented processes, and clear decision rights that run
• without you in the room.
• Build and scale the team as headcount ramps: hire and develop planners, buyers, and material
• leaders; design the org structure the site grows into; and create a culture that retains strong operators.
• Mature the systems backbone so the function runs on reliable data rather than spreadsheets — stand
• up and stabilize ERP/MRP and planning tooling as volume and product mix grow.
• Institutionalize continuous improvement: establish the metrics, reviews, and root-cause discipline that
• let the function keep pace with each rate increase and every new product family, and shift the team
• from firefighting to steady-state execution.
• Identify and mitigate global supply risks; drive shortage resolution, continuity plans, supplier
• diversification, and production readiness.
• Lead Sourcing Engineering and supplier development, including supplier technical readiness,
• qualification, capacity planning, quality, delivery, and recovery.
• Partner with Design Engineering to integrate supplier capacity, manufacturability, and sourcing
• considerations into new product development.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or related professional experience.
• and maintain a U.S. Security Clearance.15+ years in supply chain, materials management, planning, or manufacturing operations in a hardware or manufacturing environment, including 8+ years managing people and at least 3 years managing managers or leading a multi-team function.
• Demonstrated leadership of demand and supply planning, S&OP, supplier development, procurement, sourcing engineering, and material control in a global manufacturing environment.
• Proven results in supplier performance, cost, inventory, delivery, organizational development, and cross-functional transformation.
• You've built and scaled an organization, not just a team: hiring senior talent, developing managers, designing structure, and creating a culture that retains strong operators.
• You've owned S&OP or an equivalent enterprise planning process end to end, with real accountability for material availability and schedule attainment.
• You think in systems and have deep operational instincts. You understand how upstream decisions in engineering, product, and sourcing cascade into downstream materials, manufacturing, and fulfillment outcomes. You can decompose an ambiguous, high-stakes supply problem and drive it to resolutionfast.
• You're data-driven and systems-fluent across ERP/MRP platforms (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle) and advanced planning tools, and you can partner credibly with technical teams to improve tooling — while knowing when a spreadsheet is the right answer.
• Experience with complex electronic/electromechanical products, contract manufacturers, NPI, and production scale-up.
• Knowledge of AS9100, ITAR, EAR, FAR/DFARs, as applicable.
• Strong executive presence, high ownership, low ego. You align senior stakeholders, communicate trade-offs crisply, hold your ground with data, and value results over credit.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MBA or relevant Master's Degree; CPIM, CSCP, or CPSM Certification.
• Experience leading supply chain in a high-growth hardware, aerospace, or defense environment.
• Experience scaling from low-rate to high-rate production, including capacity and footprint planning.
• Track record of standing up or rebuilding a supply chain function and its supporting systems from the ground up.
• Experience with a multi-product portfolio with shared supply and constrained long-lead materials.
• Familiarity with defense program environments and contract-driven delivery commitments.

US Salary Range 220000 - 292000 USD