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You’ll find and qualify suppliers, secure long-lead and hard-to-source components, negotiate terms, and make sure our supply chain meets defense requirements. You’ll report to the Head of Business Operations and work closely with every engineering lead and the Technical Program Manager.\nInterceptors depend on specialized parts, including energetic materials, high-performance alloys and composites, precision electronics, and sensors, many with long lead times and few suppliers. Your work will decide how fast we can build and how many we can make.\nWhat You’ll Do\nBuild the supplier base\nFind, evaluate, and qualify suppliers for machined parts, composites, electronics, sensors, energetic materials, and motor components.\nBuild relationships with key suppliers and negotiate pricing, lead times, and terms.\nSet up backup suppliers for critical and single-source parts.\nManage long-lead and critical parts\nWork with engineering leads to identify long-lead and hard-to-source parts early, and secure them ahead of need.\nTrack supply risks, such as shortages, single sources, and supplier problems, and maintain plans to address them.\nSupport make-vs-buy decisions with cost, lead-time, and supplier data.\nPlan for production\nBuild sourcing plans and cost models for scaling from prototypes to low-rate production.\nWork with engineering on design choices that lower cost and improve supply availability.\nEnsure compliance and quality\nMake sure purchasing meets government contract requirements, including FAR/DFARS flowdowns, specialty metals, counterfeit-parts prevention, and ITAR.\nWork with engineering to set supplier quality requirements, inspection, and documentation.\nBuild systems and processes\nSet up purchasing, inventory, and supplier management processes and tools that scale with the company.\nRequired Qualifications\nB.S. in supply chain management, engineering, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.\n5+ years of supply chain, procurement, or sourcing experience in aerospace, defense, or complex hardware.\nExperience sourcing custom and technical parts, such as machined parts, electronics, or composites.\nWorking knowledge of FAR/DFARS requirements and ITAR.\nStrong negotiation skills and experience managing supplier relationships.\nComfortable working closely with engineers and understanding technical requirements.\nMust be a U.S. person as defined by ITAR (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual). 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