Description
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.
Anduril's Manufacturing Technology, Maritime Team is seeking a Tooling and Equipment Design Engineer to join our team in Costa Mesa, CA. The Maritime Manufacturing Technology Team is responsible for rapidly developing and implementing manufacturing technologies and processes for cutting-edge defense hardware.
As a Tooling and Equipment Design Engineer, you will be developing tooling, equipment, and layouts to support manufacturing processes, the production system, movement simulations and digital twins of the production environment in order to drive to efficient, rapid, on-time production and start-up of the new production facilities for maritime vehicles.
Responsibilities
- Design tooling and equipment that integrates with factory manufacturing equipment, NC machinery, and robotic welding equipment to enable processing systems for supporting factory development and the future production system.
- Support tooling and equipment integration, commissioning, and certification in prototype and production development.
- Develop, review, and validate tooling and equipment concepts to meet performance requirements.
- Team with manufacturing technology, facilities, and suppliers to create, source, and assess potential equipment and tooling to solve for production needs.
- Be on the floor communicating and integrating with fellow engineers and manufacturing personnel to perpetuate a cohesive mission-oriented culture.
- Drive collaboration with manufacturing technology, product design, manufacturing engineering, operations, facilities and construction, environmental safety & health, and finance to deliver creative and effective production system designs.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as a designer and developer of tooling, equipment and processes for manufacturing technology development, simulation modeling, digital thread development and/or production/process engineering.
- Technology development and implementation experience in equipment and tooling for large scale manufacturing.
- Ability to work hands-on in a manufacturing environment, next to operations and manufacturing engineering to understand and optimize the production system.
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing, manufacturing, procuring, installing, and maintaining tooling, fixturing, and manufacturing equipment and tooling.
- Process improvement, including justification of return on investment for process or operational changes.
- Application of lean manufacturing and linear flow principles in a production environment.
- Automation development for manufacturing processes in assembly, integration, test, and finishing operations.
- Design and construction of facilities, tooling, fixturing and equipment for large scale production systems.
Benefits
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.