# Staff Equipment Maintenance Technician

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Santa Ana, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$220,000 USD
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

## About the Role

As a Staff Equipment Maintenance Technician at Anduril, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the continuous operation and peak performance of advanced manufacturing equipment, particularly CNC machines. You will lead the development and execution of robust preventative maintenance programs, conduct complex troubleshooting, and drive continuous improvement initiatives to minimize downtime and maximize production line efficiency. Your expertise will directly contribute to Anduril's ability to rapidly innovate and deliver cutting-edge defence solutions.

## Responsibilities

- Develop, implement, monitor, and optimize planned preventative maintenance (PM) programs and condition-based inspection schedules for CNC machines and ancillary production equipment.

- Perform hands-on PM tasks, routine inspections, and corrective maintenance to ensure equipment remains production-ready.

- Conduct advanced diagnosis of mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical faults; lead complex troubleshooting, disassembly, rebuild, modification, and testing to restore equipment to production-ready condition.

- Install, align, calibrate, commission, and upgrade new or modified equipment; validate performance and ensure compliance with safety and operational standards.

- Lead root cause investigations for recurring or high-impact failures; define, implement, and verify corrective and preventative actions and document findings to prevent recurrence.

- Manage critical spares and inventory, including stock monitoring, replenishment, and record keeping.

- Provide technical leadership and structured training to maintenance teams; mentor less experienced technicians and guide repair escalation decisions.

- Coordinate complex repair activities and improvement projects with production, engineering, quality, suppliers, and external service providers; act as a technical point of contact for significant equipment issues.

- Lead or champion reliability, capability, and continuous improvement projects; quantify benefits, document outcomes, and implement sustainable improvements.

- Ensure maintenance activities comply with site safety, quality, and regulatory standards; assess and mitigate operational and safety risks related to equipment.

## Required Qualifications

- Multi-skilled experience with a strong electrical bias and advanced fault-finding capability across mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems.

- 10+ years of experience with mechanical overhaul of precision equipment.

- 10+ years of experience rebuilding/replacing precision spindles in CNC equipment.

- 10+ years of experience troubleshooting robotics and 5-axis CNC machines.

- 10+ years of experience with precision alignment.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively interact with all levels of the organization.

- Demonstrated ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, schematics, and PLC/HMI documentation.

- 10+ years of post-apprenticeship experience working in a maintenance role on CNC machines in a production environment.

## Preferred Qualifications

- HNC/HND or Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent, or a Level 3 apprenticeship in Electrical, Mechanical, or Electronic Engineering (or equivalent).

- Significant experience with FANUC and/or Siemens operating systems.

- Experience in fault finding/programming PLCs and HMIs.

- IOSH Managing Safely certification.

- Experience working in an AS9100 aerospace workplace.

- Experience coordinating with suppliers and engineering teams on equipment upgrades and modifications.

## Benefits

Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) to support health, recovery, and overall well-being.

## Salary Information

The salary range for this role is $146,000 - $220,000 USD per year.

## Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams

Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We advise candidates to be cautious of phishing and fraudulent schemes, and to verify communications directly from Anduril or via agency partners.

## Skills

### Required
- CNC machine maintenance
- electrical systems
- mechanical systems
- hydraulic systems
- pneumatic systems
- troubleshooting
- preventative maintenance
- inventory management
- technical leadership
- training and mentoring

### Nice to have
- FANUC operating systems
- Siemens operating systems
- PLC programming
- HMI programming
- IOSH Managing Safely certification
- AS9100 aerospace workplace experience

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