Description
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold.
We are seeking an experienced and results-driven Lead of Business Process and Procedures for our manufacturing engineering team to lead the development, execution, and continuous improvement of manufacturing processes across our organization. You will lead a team dedicated to developing robust manufacturing processes for our diverse product portfolio, addressing challenges from high product complexity to high-volume automation.
Team Development and Resource Planning
- Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing team of business process engineers.
- Foster cross-functional collaboration across Production, Quality, Supply Chain, and Product Development teams.
- Promote a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Manage budgets, resources, and staffing.
Procedure Development and Execution
- Define, lead and manage manufacturing engineering and operations initiatives from ideation through targeted pilots and broad roll-out.
- Collaborate closely with engineers and technicians to deeply understand their pain points, needs, and the intricacies of their workflows.
- Champion best practices across global manufacturing engineering teams.
- Define and share what good looks like via lunch and learns, templates, etc.
- Facilitate early engagement with cross-functional teams including product design, supply chain, business line, configuration management, quality, and EHS.
- Own new business processes for manufacturing engineering and industrial engineering.
- Balance standardization with adaptability for scalable, high-impact solutions and align manufacturing engineering milestones with integrated program schedule.
- Identify areas of improvement on programs and provide actionable recommendations.
- Provide guidance on feasibility and risk for new manufacturing projects.
Required Qualifications
- 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.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and project management skills.
- 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.
- 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.
- Familiar with Product Life Cycle (PLM) systems, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), and Test Execution Systems (TES).
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees.