What you'll do:
- Own the material planning function and ensure day-to-day processes align with company objectives.
- Develop and execute strategies to optimize material usage and enhance procurement efficiency.
- Demonstrate subject-matter expertise and provide informal knowledge sharing and best-practice guidance to peers.
- Analyze material usage and consumption versus planned metrics and deliver actionable insights to stakeholders.
- Identify trends and recommend improvements to materials planning parameters to generate accurate procurement signals.
- Ensure materials planning activities align with operational and production requirements.
- Partner closely with engineering to integrate new products and materials into planning systems seamlessly.
- Serve as a primary point of contact to facilitate clear communication between engineering and procurement functions.
- Adapt materials planning approaches to accommodate product changes and engineering feedback in a timely manner.
- Recommend and implement enhancements to materials planning systems to streamline procurement processes.
- Leverage advanced tools, analytics, and data-driven methodologies to improve planning efficiency.
- Monitor outcomes and continuously refine system configurations to support sustained performance.
- Contribute to supply chain performance improvements through effective use of MRP (Material Requirements Planning) tools and techniques.
- Initiate and support process improvement efforts aimed at increasing efficiency and achieving key performance indicators.
- Stay current on industry best practices and emerging trends to continuously strengthen supply chain planning capabilities.
Required qualifications:
- Proven experience in materials planning, procurement, or supply chain management, with leadership experience preferred.
- Expertise in MRP systems and a strong understanding of materials planning and supply chain principles.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively across teams and departments.
- Experience in implementing system enhancements and leveraging tools to drive efficiency.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross functional alignment in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Engineering, Business, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 3–5+ years of experience in materials planning, production planning, or supply chain operations within a manufacturing or engineer-to-order environment.
- Hands-on experience with MRP/ERP systems and strong proficiency in Excel or other data analysis tools.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze demand, inventory, and consumption data to drive accurate planning decisions.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills with the ability to work effectively with engineering, procurement, and operations teams.
Skills Required
- Experience in materials planning, procurement, or supply chain management
- Expertise in MRP systems and strong understanding of materials planning and supply chain principles
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to work across teams
- Experience implementing system enhancements and leveraging tools to drive efficiency
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional alignment in a fast-paced environment
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Engineering, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 3-5+ years in materials planning, production planning, or supply chain operations within manufacturing or engineer-to-order environments
- Hands-on experience with MRP/ERP systems and strong proficiency in Excel or other data analysis tools
- Ability to analyze demand, inventory, and consumption data to drive accurate planning decisions
- Strong cross-functional communication with engineering, procurement, and operations teams
What the Team is Saying
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes medical, dental, vision, and mental-health support, with company materials describing excellent coverage. Feedback suggests these offerings are comprehensive and consistently highlighted across official and third-party benefit lists.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is granted to all full-time hires, with RSU structures and tools like Carta Tax intended to improve understanding and tax timing. Feedback suggests this broad-based ownership approach is a notable component of total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Benefits include paid parental leave, fertility support, childcare benefits, family medical leave, and onsite resources such as a Mother's Room. Feedback suggests the family-oriented offerings are more expansive than basic coverage.
Shield AI Insights
What We Do
At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
Why Work With Us
Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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