# Head of Mission Readiness, Altius 700

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $209,000-$278,000 USD
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Head of Mission Readiness for Altius 700, based in Costa Mesa.

Altius is Anduril's launched-effects platform, deployable from ground, air, or sea to conduct ISR and targeting, kinetic engagement, RF decoy, SIGINT, comms relay, and cyber warfare missions. The 700 variant is early-stage and fast-moving, currently ramping through production and flight test.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

- Directing all Mission Readiness and Integrated Product Support activities across the business line

- Owning O&S revenue and business line O&S margin

- Building service offerings that grow revenue and reduce fielding and sustainment costs

- Partnering with sourcing, quality, and flight test to ensure sustainment planning keeps pace with the evolving technical baseline

- Building training and field support materials ahead of first fielded units reaching operators

- Ensuring products are mission ready and feeding design-for-sustainment requirements into Engineering

- Hiring, developing, and training a cross-functional execution team

- Turning unstructured problems into structured, repeatable frameworks

- Operating in a matrixed structure and influencing without direct authority

- Partnering with engineering on design concepts, criteria, and product research, development, testing, and integration

- Shaping proposals, business plans, work statements, operating budgets, and financial terms of contracts

- Problem-solving and clearing obstacles for the team and internal and external partners

- Communicating relentlessly to ensure internal and external teams are informed

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or a related field

- 8+ years of experience in DoD/government logistics or progressively complex program administration experience, including leadership roles

- Technical expertise and application of logistics management principles, concepts, and practice

- Leadership skills, including organizing, planning, scheduling, and coordinating workloads

- Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

- Ability to travel as needed for business

- Ability to be local or relocate to Costa Mesa, CA

Preferred qualifications include:

- Expertise in regulatory requirements related to the DoD or government logistics

- Experience working with Air Force or other military branch Integrated Logistics operations

- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills

- Strong ability to work cross-functionally in an unstructured environment

- Strong outcome orientation with the ability to drive initiatives from inception to implementation and adoption

## Skills

### Required
- logistics management
- leadership
- communication
- project management
- defense technology

### Nice to have
- regulatory requirements
- Air Force Integrated Logistics
- interpersonal skills

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