# Production Progam Manager, Optics

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Waltham, MA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Defense

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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.

The Optics Production Program Manager will support the Director of Optics Production and play a critical role in scaling and sustaining production of precision optical assemblies for advanced defense systems.

**Responsibilities:**

- Drive Accountability: Drive initiatives across the optical production value stream which are aligned with production and growth objectives to enhance production efficiency, scalability, and cost effectiveness.

- Production Execution & Coordination: Track build schedules, monitor work-in-process, and support the Director of production through coordinating across teams to resolve blockers and maintain on track to the Operating plan.

- Supplier Execution Management: Serve as the focal point between external optical suppliers and internal supply and production teams to orchestrate material flow, ensure delivery performance, action closure, and issue resolution.

- Special Projects: Lead internal special projects as directed , production line moves, capacity expansion initiatives, vertical integration, new tooling or fixture introductions, process qualification efforts, and other cross-functional initiatives critical to scaling optical production.

- Cross-Functional Program Coordination: Act as the connective tissue between engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and program leadership , ensuring that design changes, quality escapes, supplier issues, and capacity shifts are communicated and addressed with urgency.

- Resource & Cost Management: Manage and oversee transactional material flow between multi-tiered supply, ensuring accurate cost accounting and price visibility in coordination with finance.

- Metrics, Reporting & Risk Escalation: Maintain production dashboards tracking on-time delivery, open actions, supplier performance, and work order status.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, or a related field.

- 5+ years of experience in production or operations program management, project management, or manufacturing coordination within optical assembly, precision manufacturing, or an adjacent industry , defense or aerospace experience strongly preferred.

- Strong project management skills with a track record of driving cross-functional action items to closure on time.

- Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex schedules across internal manufacturing and external vendors, holding multiple parties accountable simultaneously.

- Working knowledge of optical assembly processes, clean room environments, or precision electro-mechanical manufacturing.

- Strong command of ERP/MRP systems for production scheduling and material planning; proficiency with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Smartsheet, MS Project).

- Excellent communication, organization, and follow-through.

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

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- optical assembly
- supply chain management
- ERP/MRP systems
- Jira
- Smartsheet
- MS Project

### Nice to have
- defense experience
- aerospace experience

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