Roles and Responsibilities:- Define the initial strategic roadmap for select commodities, such as machined components, electromechanical systems and controls, shielding, thermal management, turbomachinery, fuel, 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 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
- Develop a robust logistics supply base including local couriers, domestic carriers, freight forwarders, and transportation for specialty materials
- Create the foundational processes and related systems required to evolve the business, focusing on areas such as supply chain planning, procurement, supplier onboarding, accounts payable, materials management, shipping and receiving, and others
- 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, finance, supply chain management, business, information systems or related fields AND 3+ years of experience in supply chain management, business operations, supplier development or supplier quality
- OR 5+ years of experience in supply chain management, business operations, supplier development or supplier quality
Preferred Skills & Experience:- 3+ years of experience in supply chain management or manufacturing for complex systems and assemblies
- 3+ years of experience in the aerospace & defense, automotive, semiconductor, or energy industries
- 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, material management, program management, and logistics
- Proven success in a start-up environment or similar
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
Location- We are located in Torrance, CA in a 322,000 square foot, brand new facility featuring large open spaces for team collaboration, R&D, and production, as well as easy access to the 405, 105, and 110 freeways. Our facility is in the heart of Los Angeles' vibrant emerging tech ecosystem alongside many other high growth startups and enterprises.
CultureAt 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
