Senior Technical Supply Chain Manager, Satellite Hardware
Hawthorne, California, United States On-site
$130,000–$180,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
Reflect Orbital is hiring a Senior Technical Supply Chain Manager, Satellite Hardware to own sourcing, planning, purchasing, and fulfillment for the hardware that goes into our satellites. This is a hands-on senior IC role embedded with engineering and manufacturing. You’ll source suppliers, run RFQs, manage long-lead parts, place and track POs, resolve shortages, and build material-readiness visibility for spacecraft builds. This is direct satellite hardware supply chain — not office, facilities, or generic corporate procurement. Your job is to take supply chain work off engineers’ plates without losing technical context or speed.
What you'll bring
- You have 5+ years of experience in technical sourcing, hardware supply chain, procurement, material planning, supplier industrialization, manufacturing operations, or NPI for complex hardware.
- We care more about demonstrated ownership than years.
- You have owned direct supply chain for flight hardware or similarly high-reliability hardware: spacecraft, aerospace, robotics, automotive, defense, medical, energy, or complex electromechanical systems.
- You can read drawings, BOMs, specs, material callouts, tolerances, finishes, and supplier quotes well enough to identify manufacturability, cost, lead-time, and supply risk.
- You have personally run RFQs, found and qualified suppliers, negotiated quotes, placed POs, tracked delivery, and recovered late or high-risk parts.
- You understand material planning: long-lead tracking, BOM readiness, inventory, shortage management, MRP/ERP systems, purchase orders, work orders, and build schedules.
- You are comfortable operating both strategically and tactically: building supplier strategy in the morning and calling shops, chasing parts, or cleaning up PO issues in the afternoon.
- You communicate crisply with engineers, suppliers, technicians, leadership, and finance
- you can push for better decisions without owning design authority.
- You move fast in ambiguous environments and can build lightweight systems before a perfect ERP/process exists.
- Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, we are likely still interested in hearing from you.
- Hiring exceptional individuals is our #1 priority, and we believe that exceptional people often have highly unusual backgrounds.