# 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.

- Strategic Problem Solving: 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.

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

- Budget & Cost Control – Monitor project budgets, track progress and ensure we are continually focused on solving the largest problems to improve the bottom line.

- Data-Driven Operations – 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.

- New Product Information (NPI) – Be production’s point of contact for all changes to existing product as well as new products in our pipeline.

- Cross-Functional Initiative Management: 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.

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- You’re technical,you are data-driven, understand systems, and know how to communicate with engineering and product teams.

- You’re a builder,you’d rather design and implement a better solution than patch around a broken one.

- You’re a team player - you approach both people and problems with a sense of humility while clearly understanding your impact.

- You’re self-driven and proactive,your bias is for action rather than delay.

- You’re comfortable in ambiguity,you get energy from untangling complex, messy problems.

- You’re clear,you communicate effectively, including in both technical and non-technical contexts.

**Benefits** Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits packages.

## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- data-driven
- systems
- communication
- team player
- problem-solving
- analytical
- organizational

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