Description
Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Maintenance Supervisor to help stand up and lead the maintenance and reliability function at Arsenal-1, its first hyper-scale manufacturing facility.
This is a ground-floor leadership role where you will build the maintenance organization from the ground up , hiring and developing the technician team, establishing preventive and predictive maintenance programs, standing up the CMMS and asset data, and partnering with facilities, controls, and production to keep a hyper-scale manufacturing operation running at high availability.
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, coach, and mentor the Arsenal-1 maintenance technician team , from the first hires through a scaled, multi-shift organization , developing skills, cross-training, and a strong safety-first culture.
- Stand up and own the preventive, predictive, and reactive maintenance programs for production equipment, tooling, and facility-critical systems, driving toward high equipment availability and uptime.
- Establish and administer the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), including asset hierarchy, PM schedules, work-order workflows, and spare-parts/MRO inventory, and keep the data accurate as the single source of truth.
- Direct daily maintenance operations , prioritize and assign work orders, clear blockers, and balance planned PM against emergent breakdowns to protect the production schedule.
- Lead rapid troubleshooting and repair of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and controls issues on the floor, minimizing downtime and getting equipment back into production quickly.
- Drive root-cause analysis and corrective action on recurring failures, tracking issues to closure and feeding improvements back into PM plans and standard work.
- Ensure all maintenance work follows safety procedures, lockout/tagout, and standard work; proactively identify and drive safety improvement opportunities.
- Partner with facilities, controls/automation, manufacturing engineering, production, supply chain, and EHS to support new equipment installation, commissioning, and readiness, and to design for maintainability up front.
- Develop and manage spare-parts strategy, critical-spares inventory, and vendor/service relationships to support total cost of ownership.
- Build and manage maintenance KPIs (uptime, MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance, backlog) and provide a regular report-out of reliability performance, blockers, risks, and needs.
- Be an active participant in and champion of 5S and continuous improvement activities across the maintenance organization.
- Support capital and equipment planning by providing reliability input, maintainability requirements, and lifecycle cost perspective.
- Show up every day with extreme urgency and enthusiasm to keep the line running and get the job done.
Requirements
- 3+ years leading or supervising maintenance, reliability, or skilled-trades teams in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Demonstrated hands-on technical depth across mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and/or controls systems, with proven equipment troubleshooting skills.
- Experience building and executing preventive and predictive maintenance programs and driving measurable improvements in equipment availability and uptime.
- Working knowledge of a CMMS / EAM system for work orders, PM scheduling, and asset/spares management.
- Strong understanding of root-cause analysis and corrective-action methodologies (e.g., 5-Why, FMEA).
- Experience managing MRO / spare-parts inventory and vendor or service-provider relationships.
- Solid grasp of workplace safety practices, lockout/tagout, and electrical safety.
- Can interpret technical documentation , mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, P&IDs, equipment specs, and OEM manuals.
- Willing and able to work on hardware hands-on and prefer to be on the production floor, adapting easily to a constantly changing environment.
- Passion for employee development and the process of training and developing both new hires and veteran technicians.
- Knowledge of 5S, Lean manufacturing, or Six Sigma principles.
- Proficient with MS Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project).
- Extremely reliable, organized, and detail-oriented with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) to support health, recovery, and overall well-being.