Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, math, physics, or related fields with 4+ years of relevant experience, or 5+ years of experience without a degree.
4+ years in supply chain management or manufacturing for complex systems and assemblies.
4+ years in aerospace & defense, automotive, semiconductor, or energy industries.
Experience with electronics or electromechanical commodities in a fast-paced environment.
Proficiency in supply chain systems like MRP and ERP.
Demonstrated ability to manage diverse commodities and suppliers.
Experience in multiple supply chain functions including planning, procurement, and logistics.
Responsibilities
Define the strategic roadmap for select commodities such as electronics and electromechanical components.
Identify and onboard suppliers to develop a mature supply base for prototyping and production.
Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure designs are manufacturable.
Work with quality teams to ensure compliance with quality programs and address nonconformances.
Guide make-versus-buy decisions based on design feedback and resource investment.
Conduct should-cost analyses to support negotiations and supplier evaluations.
Develop performance metrics to manage critical path items and ensure project timelines are met.
Benefits
Opportunity to influence multiple areas beyond supply chain.
Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with a small team.
Chance to tackle significant and complex challenges.
Potential for professional growth in a startup culture.
Flexible work environment with a focus on collaboration.
Full Job Description
About the Role
As an early member of the Antares supply chain team, you will define and execute the strategic roadmap required for the company to successfully iterate through prototyping and into full-rate production. This will include identifying, qualifying, and developing suppliers across several commodities, proactively maturing fragile or nonexistent supply chains, interfacing with engineering teams to ensure design for manufacturability, and creating the processes and systems necessary to scale our business. As a growing company, you will also have the opportunity to wear many hats and influence areas outside of supply chain.
The ideal candidate will be able to execute in an ambiguous environment, with the ability to efficiently balance many different priorities - you will be part of a small team tackling significant and complex challenges and will have a key role in contributing to the success of the company both in the short and long-term.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Define the initial strategic roadmap for select commodities, such as electronics, electromechanical components, controls, PCBAs, harnessing, and others
Identify and onboard suppliers across many commodities to develop a mature supply base capable of supporting both prototyping and eventually full-rate production
Engage with responsible and manufacturing engineering teams to review drawings and provide feedback in collaboration with suppliers on design for manufacturing
Coordinate closely with quality teams to ensure compliance with the Antares quality program regarding supplier onboarding, quality and documentation requirements, addressing nonconformances, and developing supply chain related procedures
Direct the business on informed make-versus-buy decision, considering factors such as design feedback loop, product function, capital and resource investment, and manufacturing methods
Create bottoms-up analyses for should-costing to support commercial negotiations and supplier evaluation
Develop performance metrics and reporting to identify, communicate, and manage critical path items
Execute on near-term actions related to prototyping and development hardware to guarantee schedules for engineering and testing milestones
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, math, physics or related fields and 4+ years of experience in design or manufacturing engineering, supplier development or supplier quality, or supply chain management
OR 5+ years of experience in design or manufacturing engineering, supplier development or supplier quality, or supply chain management
Preferred Skills and Experience:
4+ years of experience in supply chain management or manufacturing for complex systems and assemblies
4+ years of experience in the aerospace & defense, automotive, semiconductor, or energy industries
4+ years of experience with electronics or electromechanical commodities or manufacturing in a high-complexity, fast-paced environment
Proficiency in supply chain related systems, including MRP and ERP
Demonstrated track record of managing a diversity of commodities and suppliers
Broad experience across several supply chain functions, including planning, procurement, supplier development, supplier quality, and logistics
Proven success in a start-up or lean team
Additional Requirements:
Ability to work long hours and weekends as necessary to support critical milestones
Ability to travel up to 40% when necessary to interface with suppliers
Culture
At Antares, we like to specifically tie each role to our founding document's set of values-here are the top five cultural values we think you should believe at your core to be successful:
Think in Systems - Energy and Defense are complex ecosystems with numerous stakeholders with competing priorities, conflicting policies, perverse incentives, and emergent and path-dependent properties. First principles thinking alone is insufficient. Think probabilistically and then take action. "If you want to be certain, then you are apt to be obsolete." Over-optimizing the components often degrades the system
Obsess over the End User - The customer and end user are often not the same. We will never build globally competitive commercial products if we lose sight of our end users and their entire interaction with the product life cycle
Be Unconstrained by Convention - Our only limits are the laws of physics. Many, even experts, will say what we are working on is impossible. They said the same about SpaceX reusing rockets. Generationally impactful companies, by definition, must accomplish the seemingly impossible. If it were easy, it would have already been done. Never shy away from a solution because it has never been tried before, and never choose to do something because that's "how it's always been done"
Go Where the Work Is - Never miss a chance to meet a customer, user, or stakeholder face to face, even if that means hopping on a plane. If you can't make it, find a teammate who can channel your intentions and go in your place. Deep work can be done from anywhere, but we believe teams are built in person, and aim to maximize our time together
Operate in the Grey - Embrace nuance in pursuit of truth. Question every fundamental assumption
