Supply Chain Manager

Supply Chain Manager Location: Tucson, Arizona Employment Type: Full-Time Department: Supply Chain / Operations Reports To: Director of Global SCM/Ops Equity: Yes About Tiberius Aerospace Tiberius Aerospace is building the next generation of weapons systems for the United States, United Kingdom, and their allies. We believe the future of defense will be built differently — with faster iteration, tighter integration between software and hardware, and a more modern approach to how mission-critical systems are designed, tested, deployed, and improved. Tiberius is building technologies that do not stop evolving once they leave the factory, while helping shape a defense ecosystem that connects engineers, operators, manufacturers, governments, and allies into a continuously learning system. To serve our nations with Strength, Honor, and Purpose — forging the systems that defend freedom and shape the future of defense. Position Overview Tiberius Aerospace is seeking an experienced Supply Chain Manager to lead the strategic and operational management of procurement, supplier development, inventory control, logistics, property acquisition, configuration management, and supply chain compliance activities across government and commercial programs. This is a high-ownership role for someone who can build disciplined, scalable supply chain capability within a rapidly growing aerospace and defense company. The Supply Chain Manager will ensure the timely, compliant, and cost-effective acquisition of materials, equipment, tooling, capital assets, and services required to support engineering, testing, manufacturing, and program execution. The ideal candidate brings experience in aerospace, defense, government contracting, manufacturing, or another highly regulated technical environment. You understand that supply chain is not simply a purchasing function. It is a critical driver of program execution, technical readiness, schedule confidence, cost control, and operational resilience. You will serve as a primary interface between Engineering, Program Management, Contracts, Finance, Quality Assurance, Security, and external suppliers to ensure Tiberius has the materials, services, documentation, and supplier relationships required to deliver mission-critical programs. What You’ll Do Lead procurement, sourcing, supplier management, inventory control, logistics, property acquisition, and supply chain compliance across government and commercial programs. Ensure purchasing and subcontracting activities comply with FAR, DFARS, customer contract requirements, and internal company policies. Build and maintain strategic relationships with suppliers, subcontractors, manufacturing partners, research institutions, and industry partners. Develop sourcing strategies that balance cost, quality, delivery, technical capability, compliance, and supply continuity. Establish and maintain supplier qualification, onboarding, performance-management, and corrective-action processes. Manage competitive sourcing events, supplier negotiations, purchase-order administration, and procurement-file documentation. Partner with Engineering to ensure technical data packages, drawings, specifications, statements of work, and configuration baselines are ready for supplier release. Build inventory-control, asset-accountability, logistics, and material-management systems that support rapid program growth. Identify supply-chain risks before they become schedule, cost, quality, or production constraints. Support proposal development, supplier cost analysis, capacity planning, and long-range program execution. Core Responsibilities Procurement & Government Contract Compliance Manage procurement activities in compliance with FAR, DFARS, applicable government-contracting requirements, customer requirements, and internal policies. Develop and administer competitive Request for Information (RFI), Request for Quotation (RFQ), and Request for Proposal (RFP) processes. Evaluate supplier quotations and negotiate pricing, delivery schedules, terms, conditions, and commercial agreements. Prepare and maintain procurement documentation supporting source-selection decisions. Develop, document, and obtain approval for sole-source procurement justifications in accordance with company policy and government regulations. Ensure purchasing activities are audit-ready and support customer, DCAA, DCMA, and internal reviews. Maintain complete procurement files, approvals, and record-retention practices. Supplier Development & Relationship Management Establish and maintain strategic business relationships with key suppliers, subcontractors, and industry partners. Develop supplier-performance metrics covering quality, delivery, responsiveness, cost, capacity, and compliance. Conduct periodic supplier evaluations and lead supplier corrective-action and continuous-improvement efforts. Identify, assess, qualify, and onboard new suppliers to improve competition, capability, resilience, and technical capacity. Develop supplier-risk mitigation plans and long-term sourcing strategies for critical materials, components, tooling, and services. Monitor supplier performance throughout purchase-order and subcontract execution. Supplier Qualification & Onboarding Develop and maintain Approved Supplier List (ASL) processes, procedures, and supporting records. Establish supplier-onboarding requirements, including quality, financial, technical, cybersecurity, compliance, and capability assessments. Coordinate supplier qualification activities with Engineering, Quality, Security, Contracts, and Program Management. Maintain supplier certifications, compliance documentation, qualification status, and performance records. Ensure suppliers align with applicable contractual, regulatory, quality, export, and information-security requirements. SBIR/STTR Procurement Administration Manage procurement activities supporting Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology