Production Planning and Scheduling Engineer

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

You will own the schedule that runs the cutting-edge maritime production: one integrated schedule instead of twenty spreadsheets, and the daily call on what the floor builds next.

Responsibilities:

• The integrated master plan and integrated master schedule for module production, horizontally and vertically integrated across engineering, material, manufacturing, and quality.
• Critical path and network logic: find the conflicts, resolve them, and tell the program what just moved and why.
• Shop load and dispatch: what gets worked today, against real material availability, qualified labor, and open nonconformances.
• Schedule adherence and earned value: measure plan against actual, then feed the variance back into the plan.
• Re-baselining when the program changes, with the risk analysis to support it.

Requirements:

• 4+ years in production planning, production control, or master scheduling in shipbuilding, aerospace, or heavy manufacturing.
• Program-level planning experience: demonstrated ability to build and manage integrated schedules for complex manufacturing or defense programs.
• Familiarity with controlled production environments (defense, aerospace, automotive, or similar).
• Fluency with a scheduling toolset (P6, MS Project, Open Plan, Aurora) and with an ERP/MES (Forge, Odoo, SAP, Solumina, Oracle).
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Submarine or surface-ship construction: stage of construction, work control, outfitting, planning value stream.
• Critical chain / theory of constraints, buffer management.
• Earned value management.
• Experience standing up a new production line or factory from greenfield.
• Background in defense manufacturing (torpedoes, missiles, submarines, aircraft).
• Digital native: comfortable with modern tools, automation, and data-driven approaches.
• PMP, PMI-SP, or equivalent scheduling certification.

Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) to support health, recovery, and well-being.