Fleet Sustainment Manager

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

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About The Position

Anduril’s Technical Operations team supports deployed systems throughout their operational lifecycle, working with Engineering, Quality, Logistics, and Deployment Operations to sustain fielded hardware and resolve issues affecting mission readiness. The Fleet Sustainment Manager owns the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of records and operational workflows supporting deployed assets. The role ensures deployed sites are accurately represented in internal systems, with current documentation, accountable inventory, and clearly tracked hardware and quality issues.

As a primary coordination partner for Technical Operations, this role helps field teams use internal systems, document issues, and engage the teams needed to resolve them. The manager owns follow-through from identifying discrepancies through coordinating corrective action, ensuring records reflect work completed in the field. Success requires attention to detail, practical problem-solving, ownership of ambiguous problems, reliable process-building, and an understanding of how accurate operational data supports fleet readiness and mission success.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in technical operations, asset management, logistics, fleet sustainment, or a related operational role.
• Experience maintaining accurate asset, inventory, maintenance, or configuration records within enterprise systems.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate work across multiple teams and drive outstanding issues to resolution.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, including the ability to manage competing priorities across numerous deployed sites.
• Ability to document technical issues clearly, establish actionable next steps, and communicate effectively with technical and operational stakeholders.
• Experience using issue-tracking, inventory management, or enterprise resource planning tools.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting deployed hardware, distributed infrastructure, or complex technical systems.
• Experience with serialized inventory, configuration management, hardware repair and return workflows, or quality issue tracking.
• Demonstrated success improving operational processes, data quality, and system adoption.
• Experience partnering directly with field service or Technical Operations teams.
• Ability to turn recurring field issues into measurable improvements in tools, documentation, and workflows.
• Familiarity with Jira, Oracle/ERP systems, or comparable operational platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own deployed-site documentation, including asset configurations, installation documentation, maintenance history, and supporting operational information; ensure records are complete, current, and accessible throughout the site lifecycle.
• Maintain accurate records across systems for site status, hardware configurations, asset assignments, and service records, and coordinate corrections when discrepancies are found.
• Track deployed hardware, serialized assets, replacements, transfers, and returns; reconcile system records with field activity and coordinate periodic inventory verification with Technical Operations and Logistics.
• Support documentation and management of hardware failures, defects, and other quality concerns, and coordinate with Engineering, Quality, and Logistics to establish ownership, track next steps, and facilitate resolution.
• Drive issues through closure by tracking open actions, dependencies, and overdue items; escalate blockers, communicate progress, and verify completed work is reflected in appropriate records.
• Serve as a coordination point for Technical Operations when internal tools, data, or processes present obstacles; translate field feedback into actionable requirements and engage teams to deliver solutions.
• Coordinate accurate updates across relevant systems for installations, hardware swaps, repairs, configuration changes, and decommissions.
• Identify recurring documentation gaps, inventory discrepancies, and workflow inefficiencies; develop standards, templates, and system improvements to reduce administrative burden and improve data reliability.
• Maintain reporting on documentation completeness, inventory discrepancies, open hardware issues, and outstanding actions so stakeholders can prioritize work and address recurring problems.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of total compensation.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, described as a comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed