Head of Manufacturing and Supply Chain
Advanced Navigation
Operations
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Posted on Mar 30, 2025
Advanced Navigation is the world’s most determined innovator in AI robotics and navigation technologies across land, air, sea and space applications. Founded on a culture of research and discovery, Advanced Navigation's mission is to be the catalyst of the autonomy revolution. Fields of expertise include artificial intelligence, underwater sonar, GNSS, radio frequency systems, inertial sensors, robotics, quantum sensors and photonics.
Today, Advanced Navigation is a supplier to some of the world's largest companies, including Airbus, Boeing, Google, Tesla, NASA, Apple, and General Motors. Discover it for yourself: https://youtu.be/F7uAqs1gtuk
Overview of Position
Reporting to the COO, this role will be accountable for Production, Production Engineering, Procurement and Logistics Functions within the business. The role will support direct reports, Heads of Production, Production Engineering, Purchasing & Logistics and Planning, to deliver critical, near term goals while ensuring and enabling a strategic, collaborative focus on alignment and scale into the future. The role will steer the function to support business priorities, including Product and GTM strategies.
Role responsibilities
- Strategic Supply Chain Planning
- Create and manage a Supply Chain Strategy that outlines an approach to scale that aligns with business objectives, including growth plans, Go To Market and Product Strategies
- Develop and execute strategies to mitigate supply chain risks and remove bottlenecks
- Scale Supply Chain in line with business requirements, ensuring preparedness to support business outcomes
- Create and maintain capacity models to support reporting, capacity planning and reporting, prioritization of resources and investment decisions.
- Drive rapid, resourceful scale activities to capture unforeseen opportunities when they arise.
- Lead a team of seasoned, experienced Supply Chain Leaders, including Head of Production, Procurement, Logistics, Production Engineering and Planning.
- Lead Heads of to deliver Production, Production Engineering, Procurement, Logistics and Planning short and long term outcomes
- Ensure a focus on COGS and margins, implementing cost controls and cost reduction processes
- Maintain regular product COGS review in line with business priorities
- Develop an understanding of supply chain risks and maintain mitigation strategies, including supplier risk, equipment risk, resource risk and process risk.
- Compliance with regulations
- Awareness of global supply chain risks and disruptions
- Ensure Advanced Navigation is leveraging fit for purpose ERP tools and collaborate with IT to update and upgrade when suitable.
Capacity planning & execution
Team Leadership and Development
Cost Controls
Risk Management
Collaboration with Business Assurance, R&D, Product Management
Technology and Systems
Skills and Experience
- Bachelors or masters degree in related technical fiend, electronics or mechatronics engineering or supply chain management a plus
- Certifications such as CSCP, CPIM or CPSM highly valued
- Significant experience in leading and developing high-performing teams in large scale, global Electronics Manufacturing in a similar industry
- In depth experience in quality control principles and practices, Supply Chain methodologies and best practice
- Awareness of industry trends and advancements in Electronics manufacturing & manufacturing systems
- Well-developed skills in Strategic Planning, Capacity modelling, Forecast and demand planning
- Strong track record in Supplier relationships and negotiation
What are some of the benefits you will have access to?
You'll have access to industry-leading products with diverse applications within some of the most interesting and exciting projects worldwide. We’re growing a team of inspired, smart, and driven individuals from all sorts of backgrounds. With great opportunities for growth and variety, we strive to help each employee carve out the path that’s right for them.