Description
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.
We are looking for a Director, Material Movement & Production Supply to join our rapidly growing team in Costa Mesa, CA.
In this role, you will be responsible for warehouse and production supply operations across our headquarters and Orange County facilities: receiving, put away, picking, kitting, line side delivery and outbound shipping.
You will lead a team of managers and supervisors and several hundred hourly associates, and you will open a new campus in Long Beach.
Government property and export controlled material stay in custody the whole way.
This will require experience running high volume, multi site warehouse operations by the numbers: labor planned against demand, productivity measured by process, and every miss traced to a root cause.
Responsibilities
- Run daily operations across our headquarters and Orange County sites: receiving, put away, storage, picking, kitting, line side delivery, and outbound shipping to other Anduril sites and to deployment.
- Own the result production cares about most: zero line stoppages caused by material, with dock to stock, kit on time and line side fill rate held to the service levels agreed with each production team.
- Run the operation from data. Build the daily view of labor, productivity by process, backlog and service level by site, pulled from the system rather than from spreadsheets, and use it to staff every shift.
- Lead from the floor through daily Gemba walks, tier meetings at every site, and a steady pace of kaizen events that each target a measured problem.
- Own safety and cost at every site you run: zero recordables as the standard, the operating budget for labor, overtime, supplies and equipment, and cost per unit handled reported monthly to Finance.
- Hold transaction discipline and location control in every flow you run, so the counts run by our Inventory Control and Quality Assurance team find nothing to fix.
- Keep government furnished property and export controlled material segregated, serialized and traceable in every flow you run.
- Hire, train and develop hourly associates and the supervisors who lead them.
- Launch the Long Beach campus: hire its leaders, write its standard work, and run it to the same measures as headquarters from the first shift.
- Act as the first user of every new system and layout.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, operations, industrial engineering, business or a related field, OR 15+ years of equivalent operations experience
- 12+ years of experience in fulfillment, distribution, 3PL or warehouse operations, including leadership of a high volume site
- 6+ years leading managers or supervisors across multiple shifts or sites, with 200+ hourly associates and full ownership of safety, labor and productivity results
- Experience managing labor to engineered or measured productivity standards by process
- Experience running warehouse operations on a warehouse management system
- Must be able to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed to meet production milestones
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
- This position is based in Costa Mesa, CA and requires being onsite.
- U.S. Person status is required, as this position needs access to export controlled material and data
Preferred Qualifications
- Launched a new fulfillment, distribution or production supply site from pre opening through steady rate
- Builds own analysis in SQL, Python or a BI tool
- Experience supplying a manufacturing production line through kitting, kanban and line side replenishment
- Aerospace, defense or regulated manufacturing experience, including custody of government furnished property
- Led the operations side of a warehouse management system implementation or migration
- Lean or Six Sigma certification, or a documented record of kaizen results
- Supervisors you hired and developed were later promoted
- Master's degree in supply chain, engineering or business
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret or Top Secret security clearance