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Rainmaker is seeking a Logistics Director to lead all logistics operations across headquarters, manufacturing, test facilities, and field operations. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for building and scaling a logistics function from an early stage into a disciplined, scalable operation supporting a fast-growing, operationally complex organization.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead end-to-end logistics across transportation, warehousing, inventory management, and returns
- Plan and execute equipment deployment, site mobilization, resupply, and demobilization across operating regions
- Coordinate with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Field Operations to ensure aircraft, spare parts, batteries, seeding materials, and support equipment are available ahead of mission requirements
- Establish regional storage locations, distribution routes, and contingency plans to support expansion and rapid deployment
- Manage inventory accuracy, serialized asset tracking, critical spares, and replenishment levels across all locations
- Select and manage carriers, freight forwarders, and third-party logistics providers; negotiate contracts and hold partners accountable for cost and delivery performance
- Oversee receiving, storage, packaging, and shipping procedures to protect equipment and maintain material traceability
- Coordinate equipment recovery, repair shipments, and replacement deliveries to minimize operational downtime
- Implement logistics systems and processes that improve shipment visibility, inventory control, and coordination between teams
- Own the logistics budget and improve delivery reliability, deployment readiness, freight costs, and inventory utilization
- Ensure compliance with applicable transportation, hazardous materials, customs, and import/export requirements
- Hire, train, and lead the logistics team; resolve critical shortages and transportation issues supporting field operations
Requirements:
- 6-10 years of progressively responsible experience in logistics, transportation, warehousing, inventory management, supply chain operations, or related field
- Demonstrated experience building a logistics function, network, or major capability from an early or undefined stage into a disciplined, scalable operation
- Experience leading logistics in a fast-growing, operationally complex, or geographically distributed environment
- Strong record of creating processes and systems where limited infrastructure, incomplete information, or unclear ownership previously existed
- Willingness and ability to operate as a hands-on leader, moving comfortably between long-term strategy, process design, team leadership, and direct operational problem solving
- Experience supporting time-sensitive deployments, field operations, manufacturing operations, or complex technical equipment
- Strong knowledge of domestic transportation, warehousing, inventory controls, serialized asset management, reverse logistics, and third-party logistics management
- Experience selecting and implementing inventory, warehouse, transportation, or shipment-tracking systems and negotiating with and managing carriers, freight forwarders, custom brokers, warehouses, and third-party logistics providers
- Working knowledge of hazardous-materials transportation, lithium-battery shipping, customs, and import/export requirements
- Experience developing budgets, operating metrics, service-level expectations, and continuous-improvement programs
- Strong analytical judgment and ability to make sound decisions quickly when information is incomplete and operational timelines are compressed
- Experience hiring, developing, and leading logistics or supply chain teams
- Willingness to travel and provide support outside standard business hours when deployments or critical operational issues require it
- Experience in aerospace, aviation, robotics, advanced manufacturing, defense, energy, agriculture, or another field involving complex technical assets, hardware, and distributed operations preferred
