Supplier Quality Project Manager

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Hardware Engineering : Quality Engineering : Supplier Quality Engineering

The Supplier Quality Project Manager will design, develop, and deploy new processes and systems for supplier quality initiatives. This role involves end-to-end process development, stakeholder management, and driving organizational change within a defense technology company that utilizes AI and other advanced technologies in its products.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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
  2. Support program managers by managing specific workstreams within larger transformation initiatives, providing regular status updates and proactively identifying risks.
  3. Lead process deployment and change management efforts, including stakeholder communication, training development and delivery, adoption tracking, and post-implementation refinement.
  4. Create scalable process templates and frameworks that can be replicated across different teams, programs, or product lines.
  5. Develop process governance frameworks, including success metrics, monitoring approaches, and continuous improvement mechanisms to ensure long-term sustainability.

Skills

Required

  • 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.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree in supplier quality, supply chain, industrial engineering, or related field.
  • Certification in process improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma).
  • Knowledge of program and project management frameworks (PMI, Agile, or similar).
  • Deep understanding of supplier quality, supply chain, or manufacturing operations including their interdependencies.
  • Proven track record of leading organizational change initiatives and achieving measurable adoption and results.
  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels and build compelling cases for process changes.
  • Experience working with ERP systems and understanding how processes translate into system requirements and configurations.
  • Ability to work independently in ambiguous situations while knowing when to collaborate and escalate.
  • Strong project management skills with ability to manage multiple concurrent work streams.

What the JD emphasized

  • process design
  • business process improvement
  • process development
  • process deployment
  • process adoption
  • process governance