Supplier Quality Project Manager
Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, CA · 1 wk ago
Project Management$146k–$194k/yrFull-time
About the role
The Supplier Quality Project Manager is a hands-on builder and problem-solver within the Supplier Quality team who designs, develops, and deploys new processes and systems across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end process development for key supplier quality initiatives—from eliciting vague requirements to delivering fully documented, deployed, and adopted processes that are built for scale — across various Anduril facilities
- Conduct discovery and requirements gathering by interviewing subject matter experts, facilitating workshops, and synthesizing complex information into clear problem statements and solution approaches
- Map and analyze current-state processes to identify gaps, bottlenecks, and opportunities for standardization, efficiency gains, and risk reduction
- Design and document new business processes, including workflow diagrams, standard operating procedures, RACI matrices, process narratives, and implementation playbooks
- Support program managers by managing specific workstreams within larger transformation initiatives, providing regular status updates and proactively identifying risks
- Lead cross-functional project teams to define scope, develop detailed project plans, and manage execution from start to finish
- Serve as the central point of communication for your projects, facilitating meetings and providing clear status updates and executive summaries to stakeholders and leadership
- Manage project schedules, identify critical path activities, and proactively identify and mitigate risks to keep initiatives on track
- Lead process deployment and change management efforts, including stakeholder communication, training development and delivery, adoption tracking, and post-implementation refinement
- Create scalable process templates and frameworks that can be replicated across different teams, programs, or product lines
- Develop process governance frameworks, including success metrics, monitoring approaches, and continuous improvement mechanisms to ensure long-term sustainability
- Work with internal and external enterprise solution teams in defining requirements for applications and platforms. Support the business end of development-to deployment. Ensure design input with focus on critical business capabilities with and a high degree of usability, efficiency, automation and integration into the larger system and process landscape.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in supplier quality, supply chain, industrial engineering, business, or related field
- 2+ years of progressive experience in customer success, Development (Dev)/New Product Introduction (NPI), process design, business process improvement, or program management within the aerospace, defense, or related manufacturing industry
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement new processes from concept through deployment - across multiple facilities
- Experience with change management principles and driving process adoption across organizations
- Strong facilitation and requirements gathering skills, with the ability to work with ambiguous problems and diverse stakeholders
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance