# Production Lead

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,000-$220,000 USD
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Defense

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

You will lead all production activity for a maritime autonomous vehicle program. You will build and lead the production organization from scratch, establishing manufacturing processes, quality systems, and the infrastructure needed to scale from prototype builds through full-rate production.

## Responsibilities

- Own all production activity: manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and production support

- Build and lead the production organization, hiring across manufacturing engineering, quality, and operations

- Establish manufacturing processes and production infrastructure for complex electromechanical vehicles

- Drive the manufacturing development lifecycle: Concept, Prototype, LRIP, FRP

- Manage production budgets, schedules, and on-time delivery performance

- Own production readiness reviews and design handoff from engineering

- Coordinate supply chain including demand planning, procurement, and warehouse operations

- Implement and optimize production systems (ERP, MES, QMS)

- Drive continuous improvement using Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent methodologies

- Ensure compliance with AS9100D and customer quality requirements

- Interface with engineering, program management, and customer organizations

- Travel up to 25% to manufacturing facilities and customer sites

## Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent

- 8+ years of experience in manufacturing or production for complex electromechanical systems

- Experience building and leading production teams and organizations

- Demonstrated experience scaling production from NPI through full-rate production

- Experience with production systems (ERP, MES, QMS)

- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance

## Skills

### Required
- manufacturing
- production
- engineering
- quality systems
- supply chain
- Lean
- Six Sigma
- AS9100D

### Nice to have
- maritime
- aerospace
- defense manufacturing
- shipbuilding
- large vehicle production

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