Strategic Supply Chain & Production Operations Lead, Maritime

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril’s Maritime Division, one of Anduril’s fastest growing divisions, has assembled a diverse team of experts in software, robotics, artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and data analysis to create software and hardware solutions that radically evolve the capabilities of our customers. We are fielding the next generation of autonomous systems to tackle the extremely challenging industry demands of maritime operations. Anduril has brought to market a unique, ultra-long-range, full-ocean-depth underwater vessel platform and a completely refreshed maritime vehicle and flexible manufacturing architecture that scales from "small" to "extra-large" vehicle sizes. Today, Anduril is executing on billion-dollar contracts while simultaneously performing Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) AUV operations.

We are seeking to sustain our early successes with deep investment in an expanded product portfolio. These products, including Dive-XL, Dive-LD, Copperhead, Seabed Sentry, and other unannounced systems, will deliver a coherent system-of-systems, enabling the end-to-end conduct of a variety of autonomous missions in the maritime domain. If you are passionate about solving problems that have real impact and working on systems that directly contribute to achieving national strategic priorities, we want you to join Anduril’s Maritime Division and help us build the future of defense capability.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are seeking a Strategic Supply Chain & Production Operations Lead to join our rapidly growing Maritime Division Operations team in Costa Mesa, CA. This critical role is dedicated to enhancing our strategic supply chain and production capabilities, acting as a vital connective tissue across multiple business lines and stakeholders within the Maritime Division.

While maintaining the characteristic 'Swiss Army knife' approach of Division Operations, this role will have a specific focus on driving strategic projects related to supply chain resilience, product profitability, production efficiency, and systems integration for our cutting-edge maritime platforms. You'll be instrumental in building out the robust infrastructure required to scale Anduril's Maritime Division into the largest and most mature production operation at the company, ensuring we meet aggressive growth targets and deliver on our mission to reshape defense capabilities.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Act as connective tissue across strategic supply chain and production efforts, primarily those involving multiple Business Lines (BL's) within the Division. The scope of responsibility includes orchestrating complex cross-functional initiatives (e.g., across projects like long-term supply agreements, cost savings, strategic partnerships), ensuring seamless coordination, providing a single source of truth for data, unifying communication, and driving projects to successful outcomes from initial strategy to post-negotiation commitment or implementation of a new system/process.
• Design and implement scalable processes and operating models for multi-BL engagements, including strategic supplier management, multi-BL production site operations, and future risk-reduction and planning strategies.
• Lead projects focused on systems integration and process mapping to optimize the golden thread between platforms like Salesforce and Oracle, leveraging data effectively, and supporting the buildout resilient systems across Division production teams, CorpTech, and corporate production.
• Support dual-source de-risking efforts by initiating supplier qualification or in-house development projects, assembling the necessary scope, and aligning technical, product, and production stakeholders.
• Coordinate and prepare for executive leadership meetings, including setting agendas, tracking action items, and ensuring follow-through on strategic supply chain and production initiatives.
• Support our corporate planning cycle by helping to build out and monitor performance against goals, financial plans, and headcount plans related to production and supply chain capacity.
• Serve as the division's operational Swiss Army knife for strategic supply chain and production challenges, tackling critical initiatives that require rapid execution and problem-solving.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of work experience in operations, project management, or consulting, with significant project experience in supply chain and/or production environments, ideally complemented by an engineering or technical background.
• You love solving complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems in a people-centric way.
• You’re both high ownership and low ego, approaching everything with strong outcome orientation and high humility.
• Comfortable with radical autonomy: you'll receive a problem statement and expected outcome, then own everything in between.
• You get energy from being a thought partner for others and it excites you to spend time translating operational problems into data problems, and to then going and executing on them.
• You’re discerning and an incredibly fast learner with ability to context-switch between different geographies and stakeholders.
• You’re tactical and don’t only sit at a 30,000 foot level.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience operating within or consulting for hyper-growth technology companies, demonstrating an ability to navigate and build processes in rapidly scaling environments.
• Demonstrated experience seeing and contributing to strategic supply chain and production operations at scale, rather than solely inheriting established processes in a highly mature organization.
• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent education/work experience.