Inventory Analyst

Anduril • McHenry, MS

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About The Position

The Inventory Analyst manages and optimizes inventory levels to support production schedules while minimizing scrap, excess, and obsolescence costs. The role oversees inventory health across materials, quality, and production, including energetic and shelf-life-sensitive chemicals used in a rocket motor environment. The analyst reviews usage trends, leads cycle-counting programs, monitors variances, and resolves discrepancies to maintain inventory integrity in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment.

The position supports the Rocket Motor Systems team at Anduril, which designs and manufactures solid rocket motors and propulsion systems. Its vertically integrated operation spans propellant chemistry and mixing, case fabrication, assembly, and test. The role helps maintain accurate, real-time inventory so production can continue safely and reliably.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Typically 3–5+ years of inventory-control experience in an aerospace or high-tech manufacturing environment.
• Proficiency in Oracle and Odoo is highly preferred.
• Advanced Excel skills, including PivotTables and VLOOKUPs; SQL for data mining may also be used.
• Familiarity with AS9100 standards and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) regulations for managing government property.
• Experience managing parts with unique serial numbers or traceability requirements, where an inventory error can halt production.
• Experience identifying material-flow inefficiencies and driving Lean or Six Sigma initiatives.
• Comfort handling data on hazardous or energetic materials with strict segregation, storage, and shelf-life requirements.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with hazmat or magazine storage.
• Experience in defense, aerospace, propulsion, or energetics manufacturing.
• Hands-on experience building dashboards or reports from ERP data, such as Odoo or Oracle, or from a BI/analytics platform.
• Familiarity with Oracle project and task charge structures and inventory project striping.
• A track record of improving inventory KPIs, including count accuracy, aging, putaway lead time, capacity utilization, and on-time kitting.

Responsibilities

• Oversee electronic cycle counts and physical audits to maintain near-perfect inventory record accuracy.
• Investigate root causes of inventory variances and implement corrective actions in ERP and WMS systems.
• Monitor shelf-life-sensitive materials and ensure compliance with safety and quality storage regulations through the AS9100 Quality Management System.
• Generate KPI reports and visual dashboards tracking inventory health, aging stock, and transaction records.
• Collaborate with manufacturing stakeholders to support operational continuity, forecasting, and planning.
• Track shelf life and expiration dates for energetic and hazardous materials, including ammonium perchlorate, propellant chemicals, and controlled CHM-coded consumables; flag lots approaching removal, repack, or retest dates.
• Reconcile physical counts to the Odoo/Oracle system of record, measure count accuracy against the fiscal-year target, and drive root-cause corrections on adjustments.
• Analyze consumption trends and clear-to-build coverage against active work orders to identify shortages and long-lead risks before they block production.
• Monitor MRB and quarantine aging, dormant and dead stock, and warehouse capacity utilization; recommend disposition or consolidation.
• Validate that inventory is assigned to the correct project and task charge codes, and flag material at risk from expired project dates.
• Build and maintain self-service dashboards and reports that provide production, quality, and program teams with a live view of inventory health.

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, with a comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level