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Senior Technical Supply Chain Manager, Satellite Hardware

Reflect Orbital · Hawthorne, CA · On-site

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About Reflect Orbital

Backed by Sequoia and Lux.

About the role

Reflect Orbital is hiring a Senior Technical Supply Chain Manager, Satellite Hardware to own sourcing, planning, purchasing, and fulfillment for the hardware that goes into our satellites. This is a hands-on senior IC role embedded with engineering and manufacturing. You’ll source suppliers, run RFQs, manage long-lead parts, place and track POs, resolve shortages, and build material-readiness visibility for spacecraft builds.

What they're looking for

  • 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 have personally run RFQs, found and qualified suppliers, negotiated quotes, placed POs, tracked delivery, and recovered late or high-risk parts
  • You understand material planning: long-lead tracking, BOM readiness, inventory, shortage management, MRP/ERP systems, purchase orders, work orders, and build schedules
  • You are comfortable operating both strategically and tactically: building supplier strategy in the morning and calling shops, chasing parts, or cleaning up PO issues in the afternoon
More about this role

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.

Reflect Orbital is hiring a Senior Technical Supply Chain Manager, Satellite Hardware to own sourcing, planning, purchasing, and fulfillment for the hardware that goes into our satellites.

This is a hands-on senior IC role embedded with engineering and manufacturing. You’ll source suppliers, run RFQs, manage long-lead parts, place and track POs, resolve shortages, and build material-readiness visibility for spacecraft builds.

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.

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,...

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