Reflect Orbital

Reflect Orbital

Senior Technical Supply Chain Manager, Satellite Hardware

Hawthorne, CA · Senior

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About the role

  • This is a hands-on senior IC role embedded with engineering and manufacturing.
  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Own the direct supply chain for satellite flight hardware from prototype/NPI through production: sourcing, planning, purchasing, and fulfillment.
  • Build and maintain the material plan for each spacecraft build, including long-lead items, critical-path parts, BOM readiness, inventory status, shortages, and supplier delivery dates.
  • Translate engineering drawings, BOMs, specs, and build schedules into clear RFQ packages
  • compare suppliers on cost, lead time, quality, capacity, responsiveness, and technical fit.
  • Negotiate pricing, lead times, payment terms, expedite options, and production capacity while balancing speed, cost, reliability, and program risk.
  • Place and manage purchase orders, track open orders, resolve supplier blockers, and ensure parts arrive when needed for engineering, test, and flight builds.
  • Partner tightly with engineering, manufacturing, test, and quality to manage design changes, supplier questions, first-article readiness, inspection requirements, and build-critical shortages.
  • Build the operating system for Reflect's satellite hardware supply chain: approved supplier lists, lead-time tracking, material-readiness dashboards, PO discipline, shortage reviews, and supplier scorecards.
  • Identify and reduce single-source, long-lead, and capacity risks through dual sourcing, supplier development, strategic buys, and better build planning.
  • Visit suppliers when needed to assess capability, recover schedule, resolve technical/commercial issues, and build strong long-term supplier relationships.

Requirements

  • You have 5+ years of experience in technical sourcing, hardware supply chain, procurement, material planning, supplier industrialization, manufacturing operations, or NPI for complex hardware.
  • You have personally run RFQs, found and qualified suppliers, negotiated quotes, placed POs, tracked delivery, and recovered late or high-risk parts.
  • You have strong spreadsheet/data skills and ideally experience with ERP/MRP tools, Airtable/Notion-style systems, SQL, PowerBI, or AI tools for supplier research, quote analysis, and material tracking.
  • 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 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.

Compensation

  • Reflect Orbital's success will hinge on our team, which is why our compensation and benefits plan is designed to reward our employees and support their families as generously as we're able.

Benefits

  • Reflect Orbital's success will hinge on our team, which is why our compensation and benefits plan is designed to reward our employees and support their families as generously as we're able.
  • Broad choice of medical/dental/vision coverage, Reflect covers 100% of each base-policy
  • Access to HSA, FSA, and 401K
  • Unlimited paid time off, two-weeks per year encouraged

Company info

  • At Reflect, you will be expected to move fast, have a lot of ownership and, most importantly, be able to effect change.
  • If this excites you, we are interested in hearing about your best work and accomplishments across any domain and from any points in your life.

Equal opportunity

  • Reflect Orbital is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Reflect Orbital is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
  • More about Reflect Orbital:
  • Learn more about our team here. https://www.reflectorbital.com/team
  • Equal Opportunity Employer
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