Senior Manager, Supplier Quality, Altius

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years. ABOUT THE ROLE We are investing in our supplier quality engineering team by creating a leadership position to drive the growth and performance of our SQEs across all critical category spaces supporting the Launched Effects / Tactical Strike and Reconnaissance product requirements. Success will take the form of strong partnerships with our development engineering leaders to support supplier quality and capability performance in the development phases of our drone programs. You will lead the team to work inside and outside the organization to define, develop, and execute supplier quality development plans that deliver high-quality, reliable parts, sub-assemblies, and whole systems for our internal manufacturing partners and external integration partners. The role will invest in strong, effective partnerships with our centralized sourcing team—including category management and sourcing engineering—that delivers to Anduril's mission. We are disrupting traditional defense supplier quality expectations in order to modernize the function and create differentiation that enables faster design maturity and prediction of supplier quality. If you are someone who loves to build world-class quality processes with suppliers, work hands-on with engineering, grow a team, invest in future capabilities, and be accountable for results, then this role is for you. This position is based in Atlanta, GA. WHAT YOU’LL DO Lead a cross-discipline engineering team that focuses on PCBA, avionics, cameras, batteries, energetics, precision machined parts, electro-mechanical integration, cable and wire harnesses, as well as contract manufacturing services and sourcing for the Launched Effects / Tactical Strike and Reconnaissance drone programs. Lead the partnership with our design teams to support the design development process, provide design for manufacturability feedback, and help generate product data for supplier quality success. Systematically drive the supplier quality development processes throughout the product development stages with the product engineering team through design reviews, supplier process development, testing, and qualification for components and sub-assemblies. Ensure that supplier processes and capabilities are reviewed for alignment so that product requirements can be achieved. Partner with development engineering, product quality engineering, sourcing engineering, category management, and program management to deliver predictable supply to the development programs, production programs, and manage exceptions/containments/deviations for supplier technical performance, particularly in the development phases. Ensure supplier quality readiness by analyzing key and critical characteristics for drawings and supplier specifications, developing measurement systems, and driving supplier qualification activities (PPAP, FAIR, audits, inspection development, etc.) to meet program and product schedules and technical capabilities. Strategically partner with Category Management and Sourcing Engineering to drive overall supplier performance for cost, quality, delivery, and fulfillment of strategic sourcing goals. Define and structure key process indicators (KPIs) and effectively use performance data to drive alignment and results across m…

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