Supplier Engineering Manager [Electrical]

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

The Supplier Engineering Manager drives the strategic supply network development and cost management of Anduril's product hardware, across their lifecycles, by collaborating with suppliers and cross-functionally, including stakeholders in engineering, quality, and manufacturing.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct supplier selection for a specific product, leveraging approved supplier list.
• Partner with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development via activities such as concept scoping, feature trade-off/trade tables, total cost of ownership modeling, joint design development, and simulation of mechanical & electronics designs.
• Drive commercial development and execution of sourcing strategy via full market knowledge, supplier rationalisation, commodity pricing plan, and effective principles to drive efficiency and cost.
• Drive the development and consolidation of a manufacturing BOM, working with Quality & Manufacturing, to ramp production internally and with suppliers with high flexibility.
• Accountable for all NPI component procurement, on-time and correctly, to scale up manufacturing operations.
• Manage the request for and associated verification of supplier-related CAPEX throughout NPI.
• Conduct value-stream mapping to optimize supply network lead time and flexibility.
• Complete the BOM risk assessment and develop a plan per part analysis.
• Follow through completion of component qualifications by relevant stakeholders, ahead of production need dates.
• Reduce complexity of supply chain through commonality optimization & component/supplier rationalisation.
• Lead all cost engineering activities to converge the bottoms-up cost curve to product cost, maximizing the total cost of ownership (TCO) across the product lifecycle.
• Manage ad-hoc cost issues, e.g., tariffs/import export cost, and cost inflation.

Required Qualifications:

• Ideally has a background within design & development of electronics devices, advanced sourcing activities, supplier development, early supplier engagement, and domain expertise in value/procurement engineering or TCO-related work at the component & product level.
• Familiarity with developing high-tech products in a high-mix, low-volume environment.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering (BSME, BSEE) or other related technical degree.
• Must be eligible to obtain an Australian NV1 clearance.

Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits packages available at little to no cost to employees.