Senior Business Process Engineer

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Business Process Engineer to grow and implement the Manufacturing Development Process (MDP) – a comprehensive framework that enables Manufacturing Engineering teams to pull production readiness forward in the product lifecycle and produce effectively at scale.

This role includes development, expansion, and rollout of the MDP across multiple product lines. You will be responsible for maturing the existing business process, identifying and closing process gaps with cross-functional stakeholders, and developing and deploying internal resources, templates, and tools to facilitate business process implementation by Manufacturing Engineering teams and integrate MDP into the Manufacturing Engineering way of working.

The successful candidate will have a mix of both business and technical acumen, with a strong focus on the product lifecycle and concurrent engineering principles.

Key responsibilities include:

• Introducing the MDP framework to a diverse set of stakeholders at all levels, from Individual Contributors to Vice Presidents.
• Socializing the business process and accompanying resources with cross-functional teams, including Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain, Program Management, Configuration Management, Quality, and more.
• Partnering with MDP Project Managers leading product-aligned process implementation to understand pain points of teams, gaps in the business process, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Collaborating with them to update the existing business process, expand the business process to other teams, and pilot new solutions with their teams.
• Partnering with MDP Metrics Lead to integrate process execution resources with data collection methods and visualization dashboards.
• Communicating the importance of MDP and how it contributes to production success to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Identifying and executing tailored communication strategies to match stakeholder interests.
• Balancing standardization with flexibility to formalize MDP into a Standard Operating Procedure that remains customizable to individual product lines.
• Articulating manufacturing readiness to cross-functional audiences.
• Providing highly technical teams with the resources needed to synthesize and communicate manufacturing risk to non-technical audiences with decision-making authority.
• Leveraging both engineering and production information to highlight risks and escalate them to leadership.
• Tailoring MDP implementation across product lines based on product complexity, timeline severity, and cross-functional team dynamics.
• Creating flexible implementation strategies to accommodate both commercial and federal contracts.
• Aligning MDP to both internal and external frameworks and standards, including DoW frameworks, Manufacturing Readiness Levels (MRLs), AS9100, AS6500, and more.
• Championing Manufacturing Engineering and Manufacturing Operations initiatives across teams and sites, from targeted pilot programs to enterprise-wide rollout.
• Fostering adoption and making business processes and frameworks interpretable and actionable by creating tactical resources to implement them (templates, job guides, burndown checklists, process flowcharts, etc.).

Required qualifications include:

• 3+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, manufacturing operations, design engineering, business process development, change management, project management, program management, or engineering transformation.
• 8+ years of experience overall in relevant domains.
• Understanding of the product lifecycle (design/development/production), as well as the purpose of each phase and its associated importance for manufacturing readiness.
• Strong business acumen together with knowledge of hardware engineering and manufacturing domains.
• Ability to collaborate and influence across all levels and disciplines (individual contributor to senior leadership, Program Management to Supply Chain to Design Engineering, etc.).
• Proven ability to balance the criticality of detail-oriented, strategic thinking with the importance of being scrappy to move fast.
• Process thinker with a business impact mindset.
• Demonstrated desire to learn new things without fear of jumping in.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Experience leading organizational change.
• Experience translating technical requirements into business needs.
• Experience successfully taking new products and/or production systems from development to full-scale production.
• Deep knowledge of co-design, engineering, and manufacturing phases of the product lifecycle.