Director, Warehouse Operations & Production Supply

Costa Mesa · Tustin, CA (OC-55) · USD 220,000-292,000 · 6+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 8, 2026

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Anduril Industries is seeking a Director, Warehouse Operations and Production Supply to lead warehouse and production supply operations across headquarters and Orange County facilities.
This role involves managing receiving, put away, picking, kitting, line side delivery, and outbound shipping, as well as launching a new campus in Long Beach.
The successful candidate will lead a team of managers, supervisors, and several hundred hourly associates while maintaining strict transaction discipline and custody of government property.

Run daily operations across headquarters and Orange County sites including receiving, put away, storage, picking, kitting, line side delivery, and outbound shipping.
Own zero line stoppages caused by material, holding dock to stock, kit on time, and line side fill rate to agreed service levels.
Build the daily view of labor, productivity by process, backlog, and service level by site pulled from the system to staff every shift.
Lead from the floor through daily Gemba walks, tier meetings at every site, and a steady pace of kaizen events targeting measured problems.
Own safety and cost at every site, targeting zero recordables and managing operating budgets for labor, overtime, supplies, and equipment.
Hold transaction discipline and location control in every flow to ensure inventory accuracy.
Keep government furnished property and export controlled material segregated, serialized, and traceable.
Hire, train, and develop hourly associates and supervisors, managing labor to productivity standards and staffing guidelines.
Launch the Long Beach campus by hiring leaders, writing standard work, and running it to headquarters measures from the first shift.
Act as the first user of every new system and layout, testing warehouse system changes on the floor before live implementation.

Bachelor's degree in supply chain, operations, industrial engineering, business, or a related field, OR 15+ years of equivalent operations experience
12+ years of experience in fulfillment, distribution, 3PL, or warehouse operations, including leadership of a high volume site
6+ years leading managers or supervisors across multiple shifts or sites, with 200+ hourly associates and full ownership of safety, labor, and productivity results
Experience managing labor to engineered or measured productivity standards by process
Experience running warehouse operations on a warehouse management system
Must be able to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed to meet production milestones
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
Based in Costa Mesa, CA, requires being onsite, and relocation if outside the area
U.S. Person status is required to access export controlled material and data

Launched a new fulfillment, distribution or production supply site from pre opening through steady rate
Builds own analysis in SQL, Python or a BI tool
Experience supplying a manufacturing production line through kitting, kanban and line side replenishment
Aerospace, defense or regulated manufacturing experience, including custody of government furnished property
Led the operations side of a warehouse management system implementation or migration
Lean or Six Sigma certification, or a documented record of kaizen results
Supervisors you hired and developed were later promoted
Master's degree in supply chain, engineering or business

Comprehensive, competitive benefits package supporting health, recovery, and wellness
Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers