Director, XL Support Systems
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Job Summary
ABOUT THE JOB
Anduril is seeking a Director XL-AUV Support Systems to architect stand up and lead the support enterprise for the Dive-XL fleet. You will own the end-to-end support construct: global sustainment engineering in-service support operations and the customer-facing sustainment program.
The sustainment of an autonomous undersea fleet is not the sustainment of a crewed grey-hull. There is no ships company at sea no decade-long PBL written against a stable baseline and no resident maintainers. Vehicles are software-defined telemetered and measured in mission cycles not steaming days. We are looking for an engineering leader who sees that clearly and can architect something better not retrofit a legacy model.
You will be an engineer with genuine commercial acumen. Technically credible enough to pressure-test our reliability and supportability decisions and commercially fluent enough to shape outcomes-based agreements with the Customer. You will speak the language of the Customer but move at Andurils pace.
WHAT YOULL DO
- Define and drive the long-term strategy and roadmap for XL-AUV sustainment aligned with program delivery milestones.
- Architect a support model for autonomous undersea fleets that is data-driven and articulate it to engineers executives and the Commonwealth.
- Own the ILS deliverables across the product line: R&M targets FMECA RCM sparing support and test equipment technical publications training and facilities.
- Drive supportability into the design through close partnership with engineering: early often and with data.
- Stand up and run the support depot and turnaround operation that recovers services and re-deploys vehicles between sorties.
- Own vehicle health analytics parts flow configuration management and end-to-end fleet readiness.
- Be the senior Anduril engineering voice to RAN and NSSG on all matters of in-service support.
- Shape the support contract construct within the ASDEFCON environment partnering with Contracts and Programs to negotiate outcomes-based agreements.
- Hire develop and grow a multidisciplinary team of sustainment engineers ILS specialists depot operators fleet analysts and customer-facing program managers.
- Partner across Engineering Production Supply Chain Programs Contracts and T&E to ensure support is built in from the outset not bolted on at the end.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelors degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- 10 years of progressive experience in defence engineering and sustainment with a track record of delivering capability and outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience designing or operating support systems for complex hardware-intensive software-enabled defence platforms.
- Working fluency with the ASDEFCON environment with the ability to read an SOW and instinctively know where it will fail.
- Strong commercial acumen. Comfortable shaping a support agreement modelling a sustainment business case and explaining cost-of-ownership to an executive sponsor.
- Proven ability to speak Commonwealth and move at Anduril pace.
- Experience building or scaling a function from a small team not just operating a mature one.
- Strong bias for action and extremely high ownership in a fast-paced environment.
- Resident in Australia.
- Australian citizen eligible to obtain and maintain an NV2 security clearance.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Direct experience with the sustainment of unmanned or autonomous systems (subsea surface air or land).
- Background as a Royal Australian Navy or allied engineering officer (MEO / WEEO / submarine engineering).
- Prior leadership of an in-service support function at a defence prime with exposure to performance-based or outcomes-based contracting.
- Subsea oil & gas asset integrity reliability or remote-operations experience.
- Aviation fleet sustainment background.
- Familiarity with predictive maintenance fleet health analytics and digital sustainment tooling.
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:
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