Director Supply Chain and Hardware Operations

You will own the path from released hardware designs to quality-assured units shipped to customers. You will establish outsourced manufacturing, supplier management, quality controls, planning, inventory, logistics, cost programs, and operating processes.

Responsibilities

• Move product assembly to contract manufacturers and EMS partners
• Transfer frozen designs into repeatable volume production
• Run a pilot gripper build outside the facility
• Select, negotiate with, and manage suppliers
• Build redundancy for critical components and suppliers
• Own incoming inspection, supplier quality, first-article inspection, PPM targets, and manufacturing RMA processes
• Build S&OP, forecasting, and buffer-stock practices
• Own shipping and import and export across the EU and US
• Own hardware unit cost and reduce COGS
• Establish supply-chain KPIs and review cadence

Requirements

• 10+ years in supply chain, manufacturing, or hardware operations
• Several years in a leadership role
• Experience scaling complex electromechanical products into production
• Experience building outsourced manufacturing, supplier quality, logistics, and inventory functions
• Supplier selection, negotiation, and quality-management experience
• Manufacturing quality, NPI, and industrialization experience
• Supply-and-demand planning and inventory-management experience
• Fluent English
• Willingness to travel to suppliers and customer sites

Benefits

• Equity
• Flexible PTO