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Antares is building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors for terrestrial, underwater, and space applications, with a mission to make clean energy abundant from Earth to the Asteroid Belt. The company has raised over $600M in venture capital and holds hundreds of millions in contracts with military services, NASA, and the Department of Energy. The team includes veterans from SpaceX, the White House, the Pentagon, the Department of Energy, MIT, and national laboratories.
As an early member of the Supply Chain team, you will play a definitive role in ensuring Antares meets aggressive timelines while scaling supply chain operations to support factory-produced microreactors. You will execute and improve workflows connecting business requirements, suppliers, purchase orders, delivery, invoicing, and payment across direct and indirect procurement.
Key responsibilities include:
- Execute direct and indirect sourcing, purchase order management, and delivery follow-up
- Manage supplier performance, risks, open actions, and recovery plans
- Partner with Finance and Accounts Payable to improve approvals, invoice matching, exceptions, and payment visibility
- Create dashboards and reporting for spend, purchase order status, supplier performance, lead times, and overdue actions
- Document procurement procedures, approvals, data standards, and ownership
- Maintain supplier and purchasing data to support sourcing decisions and negotiations
- Balance urgent needs with controls, documentation, and scalable processes
You will combine hands-on purchasing and supplier management with analytics and process building. The ideal candidate is organized, analytical, and comfortable balancing urgent actions with longer-term improvement. The role requires working in-office 5 days/week at Antares' 322,000 square foot facility in Torrance, with ability to work long hours and weekends as necessary to support critical milestones, and travel up to 20% to interface with suppliers.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, finance, engineering, information systems, analytics, or related field; OR 5+ years of relevant experience in procurement, supply chain, supplier management, or business operations
- ITAR eligibility: Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
PREFERRED SKILLS:
- Experience across both direct and indirect procurement categories
- Experience improving procure-to-pay or source-to-pay processes in partnership with Finance or Accounts Payable
- Proficiency with ERP, MRP, procurement, purchasing, or accounts payable systems
- Experience creating dashboards and recurring reports using spreadsheets and/or business intelligence tools
- Demonstrated success managing supplier performance, commercial issues, and corrective actions
- Proven success in fast-changing hardware environments
