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