Hadrian Automation
Director, Supply Chain Engineering
Los Angeles, CA. Posted 27 days ago
The role
You will build and lead a function to ensure the external supply base meets quality and delivery standards. You will build a quality management system and compliance framework, own supplier quality performance, and grow a team.
What you will do
- Lead and grow the supplier quality and development team
- Build the quality management system and compliance framework (AS9100/maritime) for external supply
- Own supplier quality performance end to end, including FAI, CAPA, and PFMEA discipline
- Lead supplier development, working hands-on with foundries and machine shops
- Manage supplier on-time delivery and risk across a growing mechanical commodities supply base
Required qualifications
- Supplier quality and/or development experience in aerospace, naval, marine, or directly transferable defense hard-goods manufacturing
- Strong FAI, CAPA, and PFMEA discipline
- Proven people leadership experience, with the ability to build and grow a team
- Willingness to travel regularly to foundries and machine shops
- Experience standing up supplier quality processes and systems from scratch at a startup or high-growth company, ideally in mechanical commodities
Nice to have
- Six Sigma Black Belt or formal Lean certification
- DoD/ITAR program exposure
- Working knowledge of NAVSEA requirements, SUBSAFE, and weld/NDT quality
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
- 401k
- Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need
- Flexible vacation policy
- Equity
Before you apply
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, you must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the
About the company
Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America by combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing. They help aerospace and defense companies build mission-critical systems faster and at lower cost.