Program Strategy & Operations Lead — Defense Manufacturing

Hadrian Automation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life保险

401k

Relocation support

Flexible vacation

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is building autonomous, scalable manufacturing to strengthen the national security supply chain. As part of the Programs team, you will own major workstreams within high-impact customer programs and factory stand-ups that advance our mission to reindustrialize defense and aerospace.

You will turn ambiguous problems into structured plans, build business cases and models for proposals and execution, and manage day-to-day program rhythm across engineering, operations, and supply chain.

Qualifications

• 2–6 years in management consulting, federal programs, manufacturing, or operations/strategy roles in aerospace, defense or industrial environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Operations, Engineering, or a related field.
• Willingness to travel 20–40%.
• Experience with cost, schedule, and risk analysis; ability to build structured business cases and MS-based planning artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Define new programs and early execution phases with Programs leadership.
• Attend customer discovery sessions and site visits; convert findings into structured requirements and open questions.
• Surface and mitigate cost, schedule, and delivery risks early; drive actions.
• Own pieces of factory and production-line stand-ups, including long-lead equipment and workforce ramp.
• Build and run PMO tools: Work Breakdown Structures, Integrated Master Schedules, earned value tracking.
• Coordinate across engineering, operations, supply chain, and software to ensure end-to-end delivery.
• Prepare executive materials, business cases, and customer proposals; support RFP responses and pricing.

Skills

Excel

AI tools

Stakeholder communication

Program management

Cost modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Operations, Engineering, or related field

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel (Advanced)

Job description

Hadrian is building autonomous, scalable manufacturing to strengthen the national security supply chain. As part of the Programs team, you will own major workstreams within high-impact customer programs and factory stand-ups that advance our mission to reindustrialize defense and aerospace.

You will turn ambiguous problems into structured plans, build business cases and models for proposals and execution, and manage day-to-day program rhythm across engineering, operations, and supply chain.