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Salary: USD 220,000 - 292,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Director of Warehousing Site Execution & Production Supply to lead warehouse and production supply operations across its headquarters and Orange County facilities in Costa Mesa, CA. You will oversee receiving, put-away, picking, kitting, line-side delivery, and outbound shipping operations. This role requires leading a team of managers and supervisors managing several hundred hourly associates, with responsibility for opening and scaling a new campus in Long Beach.
Key responsibilities include:
- Run daily operations across multiple sites ensuring zero line stoppages caused by material delays, with dock-to-stock, kit-on-time, and line-side fill rates meeting agreed service levels
- Own safety and cost across all sites: zero recordables as standard, manage operating budgets for labor, overtime, supplies and equipment, and report cost per unit handled monthly
- Lead from the floor through daily Gemba walks, tier meetings, and kaizen events targeting measured problems
- Build daily operational views using data (labor, productivity by process, backlog, service level by site) pulled from systems rather than spreadsheets
- Maintain transaction discipline and location control ensuring inventory counts find nothing to fix; execute quality at point of handling
- Manage government furnished property and export-controlled material with proper segregation, serialization, and traceability
- Hire, train, and develop hourly associates and supervisors; manage labor to productivity standards and staffing guidelines
- Launch Long Beach campus: hire leaders, write standard work, and run to same measures as headquarters from first shift
- Act as first user of new systems and layouts; test warehouse system changes before go-live
This is a hands-on leadership role requiring someone who walks the floor before reading dashboards, can launch buildings and get them to rate quickly, and builds supervisors who run shifts through standard work and continuous improvement.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, operations, industrial engineering, business or related field, OR 15+ years equivalent operations experience
- 12+ years 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, managing 200+ hourly associates with 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
- Ability to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
- Must be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA; remote work not considered; candidates outside area must be willing to relocate
- U.S. Person status required due to 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 BI tool
- Experience supplying manufacturing production lines through kitting, kanban, and line-side replenishment
- Aerospace, defense, or regulated manufacturing experience, including custody of government furnished property
- Led operations side of warehouse management system implementation or migration
- Lean or Six Sigma certification or documented kaizen results
- Supervisors you hired and developed were later promoted
- Master's degree in supply chain, engineering, or business
- Eligible to obtain and maintain active U.S. Secret or Top Secret security clearance
