# Production Program Manager, Intelligence Systems

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Ashville, Ohio
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $126,000-$167,000 USD
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Technology

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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.

We are seeking a Production Program Manager to serve as a builder-operator within the AIS division. You will work on projects that define the way we operate in a high-volume security intensive manufacturing environment.

**Responsibilities**

- Execute with Precision: Dive deep into ambiguous and complex operational challenges, diagnose root causes, and drive solutions to completion.

- Optimize and Mature: Lead the transition to production readiness, focusing on process optimization, operational excellence, continuous improvement, design for manufacturability (DFM), and supply chain stability.

- Process Development: Partner and build agile production management processes to achieve specific, time-sensitive outcomes.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Act as an internal strike team leader to identify, analyze, and resolve the most complex operational, manufacturing, and business process issues that impede product maturity and scalability.

- Drive continuous improvement initiatives aligned with COGs objectives to enhance production efficiency, scalability, and cost effectiveness.

- Monitor project budgets, track progress and ensure focus on solving the largest problems to improve the bottom line.

- Develop and implement reporting systems that clearly and transparently communicate progress to internal teams and executive leadership on KPIs, OKRs and project status, risks, and mitigations.

- Be production’s point of contact for all changes to existing product as well as new products in the pipeline.

- Lead high-priority, cross-functional projects to align production efforts with business objectives that span engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and finance.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Business or related technical field.

- 5+ years of experience in operations program management, business operations, engineering/technical roles, preferably in a complex hardware industry.

- Strong understanding of the manufacturing environment and the supporting processes that enable production.

- Experience launching new products with condensed timelines.

- Experience with project management methodologies (Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, etc.) and tools (Jira, Confluence, Gantt Charts, etc.).

- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and organizational skills.

- Strong communication and leadership abilities to influence and align cross-functional teams.

- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with evolving priorities.

- Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Technical: data-driven, understand systems, and know how to communicate with engineering and product teams.

- Builder: prefer to design and implement a better solution than patch around a broken one.

- Team player: approach both people and problems with a sense of humility while clearly understanding impact.

- Self-driven and proactive: bias for action rather than delay.

- Comfortable in ambiguity: get energy from untangling complex, messy problems.

- Clear: communicate effectively, including in both technical and non-technical contexts.

**Travel Requirements**

- Up to 50% travel required for this role.

- This role will be based temporarily at Santa Ana, CA for a 3-month training period before transitioning to Ashville, OH.

## Skills

### Required
- operations program management
- business operations
- engineering
- project management
- Agile
- Lean
- Six Sigma
- Jira
- Confluence
- Gantt Charts

### Nice to have
- data-driven decision making
- problem-solving
- analytical skills
- organizational skills
- communication
- leadership

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