Senior Industrial Engineer

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

The Manufacturing team at Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Industrial Engineer to focus on manufacturing optimization. The team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defense hardware. As a Senior Industrial Engineer, you will optimize Anduril's manufacturing operations for quality, reliability, speed, and asset utilization.

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain capacity models and production ramp plans to define labor planning, capex requirements, workstation design, and throughput gaps.
• Design effective facility layouts and production lines using CAD and simulation which meet process requirements, enable production targets, optimize resource allocation and material flow, and maximize productivity and quality.
• Identify and champion improvements to key causes of high variability or production bottlenecks, driving actions to resolution across disciplines and stakeholders.
• Leverage a data-driven approach to production design and process improvements to improve throughput.
• Own the reporting and analysis of manufacturing health and ensure that stakeholders have the inputs they need to make decisions.
• Maintain a data-driven virtual factory to serve as a current digital reference model for performance assessment.
• Lead the design of production lines and workstations for both low-rate and full-rate production using techniques like Value Stream Mapping and Line Balancing.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years past experience in a high-rate manufacturing environment in either a production or supply chain-type role where complex mechanical and/or electrical assemblies were built with heavy data utilization.
• Factory and/or production line design and set up.
• Value Stream mapping, Flow lines, continuous flow, one piece flow, workstation design.
• Material Flow Systems.
• Digital Systems.
• Demonstrated ability to completely own a value chain from start to finish.
• Prior knowledge or experience with ERP, WMS and MES systems.
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing principles/implementation.
• Ability to demonstrate a willingness to take on substantial responsibility across manufacturing, engineering, and operations functions with a bias towards speed and accuracy.
• Strong technical ability to read technical documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in industrial, mechanical/aerospace/manufacturing, electrical, or computer engineering.
• Prior work designing and/or setting up new production lines or factories.
• Experience interacting with SQL databases.
• Experience with production simulation software.
• Basic knowledge in object-oriented computer programming.
• Knowledge stochastic/deterministic models.
• Proficient in handling large data sets.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive and competitive benefits package.