# Manager, Material Management & Flow **Company**: Anduril **Location**: Morrisville, North Carolina **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $113,000-$149,000 USD **Category**: Manufacturing **Industry**: Manufacturing **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5251879007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0841ae7d-e2a ## Description Anduril's Supply Chain team is seeking a Senior Manager of Material Management & Flow to join us. Working with a global network of suppliers, to support a global manufacturing platform takes people who are willing to work hard and find ways to win. You will create a strategic plan to optimize warehouse and material flow operations across our Morrisville, NC facilities, create a standard set of metrics to monitor team performance, set goals for improving performance, and identify areas to reduce cost while maintaining quality. ### Responsibilities - Design, develop and implement innovative material management strategies, policies, and procedures to optimize material flow and support production requirements for efficient movement of parts & materials using lean principles across multiple sites. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including procurement, production, logistics, and quality, to aid in accurate demand forecasting, procurement planning, and timely delivery of materials. - Collaborate with production planning teams to align material availability with production schedules, minimize disruptions, and meet customer demand on time. - Own the metrics, KPIs, and reporting associated with monitoring production line health and efficiency, such as cycle time, throughput rate, capacity, utilization, process non-conformities, and inventory accuracy. - Analyze material usage trends, identify opportunities for process improvements, and implement lean practices to optimize material handling, storage, and distribution. - Support and implement inventory control measures, including cycle counting, regular audits, and reconciliation, to ensure inventory accuracy and prevent stockouts or overstocking. - Utilize ERP (Oracle) & WMS software (Odoo) systems and tools to track inventory, generate reports, and provide data-driven insights to support decision-making and optimize material-related processes. - Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, safety standards, and quality control protocols in all material management activities. - Passionately work across multiple programs from development to full rate production to scale best-in-class solutions to align with maturity of manufacturing process. - Proactively identify imbalances and bottlenecks caused by inventory processes, line layouts, parts shortages, staffing shortages, and other production constraints. - Develop processes to optimize workplans for highly variable demands across multiple sites. - Translate tools and reports into actionable tasks that impact the health of warehouse operations across a plethora of processes and sites. - Produce and maintain tools to increase accuracy of work demand for new facilities and maturing processes using a data-driven approach using tools such as Value Stream Mapping/ Process Mapping/ Line Balancing techniques. - Identify and solve complex problems related to the movement of materials within a manufacturing environment. ### Required Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering or other technical field/supply chain management. - 5+ years of experience with 2+ years of people management experience in material flow engineering and management, inventory control, or supply chain management roles, preferably in a manufacturing or production environment. - 3+ years of experience in a high-rate supply chain or manufacturing environment, where complex mechanical and/or electrical assemblies are built with heavy data utilization. - Ability to read technical documentation such as drawings and CAD data, understanding of a variety of hardware manufacturing processes for both electronics (PCBAs, sensor hardware, etc.) and structures, mechanical components, and electromechanical systems. - Ability to travel up to 25% of the time. - Ability to relocate, if not already local to be onsite in Morrisville. ### Preferred Qualifications - Strong knowledge of supply chain principles, inventory management techniques, and material planning strategies. - Strong problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills are crucial for collaborating with different teams. - Experience with department or factory design and set up - value stream mapping, flow lines, continuous flow, one piece flow, workstation design. - Ability to completely own a value chain from start to finish, measuring each step of the process, creating actionable tasks that culminated in a significant and sustainable business improvement. - Demonstrated ability of presenting project results to a cross functional team with clearly relating data to proposed next steps. - Prior experience with a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for production operations or Warehouse Management System (WMS). - Prior knowledge of NetSuite, Oracle or a similar Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. - Have direct experience scoping, buying off and commissioning warehouse automation. - Experience implementing Lean Manufacturing principles which drive manufacturing productivity. - Experience in delivering successful project by being hands on with the process. - Experience interacting with SQL databases - storage of information and building custom queries for tracking production and inventory-related metrics. - Experience with using Siemens Plant Simulation or Process Simulation software to model a production line and run production scenarios. - Experience with both commercial and federal inventory procedures, requirements, processes. - Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance. ## Skills ### Required - Material Management - Supply Chain Management - Lean Principles - Inventory Control - ERP - WMS - Oracle - Odoo ### Nice to have - Manufacturing Execution System (MES) - Warehouse Management System (WMS) - NetSuite - Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) - SQL databases - Siemens Plant Simulation - Process Simulation software --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5251879007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)