Deputy Logistics Program Manager, Advanced Effects

About the Team

The Deployments Team manages the coordination and execution of fielding Anduril’s hardware and software products worldwide. Working across Product, Engineering, Growth, Business Development, Technical Operations, and Mission Operations, Deployments oversees forward logistics, site installation, maintenance and repairs, field inventory management, sustainment and reverse logistics. The team is central to ensuring effective customer and mission success, shaping the future of Anduril’s defense solutions.

About the Job

We are looking for a Deputy Logistics Program Manager to join our rapidly growing team in Costa Mesa, CA. In this role, you will act as the working-level owner of how our advanced systems are supported, translating high-level strategies into real-world execution. This is a rigorous DoD acquisition logistics role focused on supportability analysis, lifecycle planning, and contract execution, designed for a builder who wants to own the numbers and the results.

As the Deputy LPM, you own the technical baseline that drives the program forward. While the LPM defines the high-level support construct and contractual commitments, you are accountable for the analytical substance those decisions rest on and the deliverables we ship to the customer. Within your assigned scope, you have the autonomy to decide and execute; outside of it, you develop the strategic recommendations for the LPM’s sign-off.

The ideal candidate thrives at the intersection of acquisition logistics, systems engineering, and program management. You are equally comfortable presenting to a government program office in a sustainment IPT and working a provisioning list line-by-line. This is a builder's role on a rapidly scaling program, offering a clear path to full Logistics Program Manager ownership.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver the Technical Baseline: Author and own the sustainment CDRL suite, including LSP, LORA, SSPCL, PTD, technical manuals per MIL-STD-40051, and GEIA-STD-0007. Translate engineering analyses such as FMECA, RCM, and MTA into provisioning quantities, maintenance intervals, and support equipment lists.
• Manage Supply and Maintenance Execution: Manage day-to-day repair-and-return pipelines, track turnaround times, and build provisioning baselines for spares and forecasting. Ensure 100% accuracy of physical and digital property records across CONUS and OCONUS sites.
• Build the Process and Execute: Identify program gaps and build the SOPs, trackers, and data standards to close them. Proactively surface unaddressed risks, take ownership of unassigned problems, and execute hands-on, from writing procedures to supporting field activations, to keep deployments on track.
• Influence Strategy and Design: Partner with the LPM to build the LCSP and Product Support Business Case Analyses. Represent supportability at design reviews to ensure reliability and maintainability are incorporated into the design, and run the DMSMS program to mitigate obsolescence.
• Drive Cost, Performance, and Customer Interface: Build O&S cost estimates, analyze performance metrics such as Ao, MTBF, and MTTR, and serve as the secondary voice to government stakeholders. Direct junior logisticians and deputize for the LPM in reviews as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, business/operations, or a related technical field; equivalent experience may be substituted in lieu of education.
• 5+ years of progressively complex acquisition logistics, product support, or sustainment program management supporting a DoD environment or comparable government programs.
• Hands-on, end-to-end ownership of at least two IPS elements on a DoD or comparable government acquisition program.
• Working knowledge of the 12 IPS elements and DoD product support strategy and policy.
• Direct experience authoring and delivering logistics CDRLs against DIDs, including comment resolution and revision cycles to government acceptance.
• Familiarity with supportability analyses such as LORA, LMI, SERD, provisioning, and RAM/RAM-C analysis.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to independently own sustainment models and datasets.
• Demonstrated success operating in ambiguous, undefined, or rapidly changing environments.
• Bias toward action and a proven track record of taking accountability for unowned problems.
• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 30%.

Preferred Qualifications

• U.S. Government or Military program office experience.
• Prior service as an ILS Manager, IPS Manager, Lifecycle Logistician, Logistics Management Specialist, or Deputy PSM on a DoD acquisition program of record.
• Missile, munitions, or all-up-round sustainment experience.
• Familiarity with AFLCMC, AFMC, NAVAIR, NAVSEA, or NSWC sustainment processes.
• DAWIA certification in Life Cycle Logistics or coursework toward it.
• Experience supporting the stand-up of a CLS or PBL construct.
• Experience with technical manual development, IETM authoring, or Technical Data Package validation.
• Experience with DMSMS and obsolescence management.
• Familiarity with logistics and configuration management systems such as GCSS, ICAPS, CDMD-OA, or PLM/ERP sustainment modules.
• Government proposal and business case analysis support experience.
• Experience at a startup, a new program start, or an organization scaling rapidly.
• Strong interest in progressing to full Logistics Program Manager ownership of a program’s product support strategy.

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package, available at little to no cost to employees, ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, explore our benefits.