# Director, Field Services Planning

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $191,000-$253,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Director, Field Services Planning to join their team.

The Director will oversee a team of Field Service Material Planners and be responsible for ensuring the availability of critical maintenance materials, spare parts, and consumables to support asset uptime and operational readiness across deployed systems.

Responsibilities:

- Oversee a small but growing team who plan, manage, and optimize Field Service & MRO inventory

- Collaborate closely with Sales, Field Service, Maintenance, Operations, and Reliability Engineering teams to understand and anticipate demand

- Assess current analytics tools and scope out strategy for next generation digital planning tool requirements

- Develop and maintain comprehensive critical spares lists

- Design and implement effective inventory control strategies

- Monitor Field Service & MRO part usage, analyze failure rates, and collaborate with Reliability Engineering to drive continuous improvement

- Proactively identify and expedite at-risk materials or troubleshoot potential supply chain disruptions

- Foster strong cross-functional coordination with Maintenance, Operations, Deployment, and Procurement teams

- Ensure Field Service & MRO planning strategies and inventory management practices align with O&S contract requirements

- Continuously seek opportunities to right-size inventory levels

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business field

- 6+ years of experience in supply chain planning, inventory management, and MRO planning

- Demonstrated ability to solve complex operational challenges with creative solutions

- Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills

- Proven ability to be proactive, take substantial responsibility, and manage multiple priorities effectively

- Experience with ERP systems such as Oracle, SAP, Netsuite, and CRM systems like Salesforce

- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time

- Ability to relocate, if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA

Preferred Qualifications:

- Master’s degree or other higher education

- 8+ years of experience in supply chain planning, inventory management, and MRO planning

- Previous experience specifically in MRO planning for complex electro-mechanical systems or defense applications

- Strong experience with SQL databases, including building custom queries

- Proficiency in data analysis and reporting tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Qlikview

- Knowledge of supply chain planning systems like Blue Yonder and best practices in demand planning, inventory management, and S&OP

- Experience with lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, six sigma principles, and big data evaluation techniques

## Skills

### Required
- supply chain planning
- inventory management
- MRO planning
- ERP systems
- SQL databases
- data analysis

### Nice to have
- MRO planning for complex electro-mechanical systems
- defense applications
- Blue Yonder
- lean manufacturing
- six sigma principles

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