Factory Manager, Joint Sites

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 Factory Manager to join our Division Operations ‘Joint Sites’ team in Quonset, RI. This role is a key division-level leadership position critical to running our multi-product, multi-Business Line maritime production facility.

Responsibilities

• Own Shared Services, Systems, and Infrastructure (3SI) across the entire facility, serving as the accountable leader for all of the core end-to-end operations that the site provides to Business Lines.
• Lead the Quonset Factory Team as a Division-level shared site, managing site support roles across shipping & receiving, inventory management, facilities maintenance/repair/construction, EH&S, office and kitchen management, IT, security, and janitorial services.
• Operate the facility as a multi-tenant site for Business Line “customers”, establishing and enforcing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that define response times, quality standards, and process execution between the Factory Team and the Production Systems it supports.
• Build and lead centralized technician hiring, training, and development, in partnership with Talent Acquisition and Business Line production teams.
• Stand up centralized technical manufacturing services such as machine shop, pressure testing, and other shared technical capabilities.
• Lead non-recurring site projects and industrial engineering applied to the general facility.
• Establish operating governance in collaboration with Business Line production leadership operating at the site via cross-functional committees.
• Partner with Production Finance on cost allocation between shared (Division/Corporate) and dedicated (Business Line) cost pools.
• Serve as the site’s operational Swiss Army knife for critical site issues that require rapid execution and cross-functional problem-solving.

Required Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of work experience in manufacturing operations, facilities, or site leadership.
• Engineering or relevant technical background via prior work experience.
• Experience leading teams and/or managing a manufacturing site.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating within or consulting for hyper-growth technology companies.
• Demonstrated experience leading multi-disciplinary site teams across warehouse, facilities, EH&S, security, IT, and industrial engineering functions in a regulated or high-complexity manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience standing up or operating multi-product, multi-Business Line production sites.
• Prior experience owning warehouse operations and WMS implementations, EH&S programs, or facilities/CapEx project portfolios at a manufacturing site.
• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education/work experience, ideally in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related technical discipline.

Benefits

• Competitive salary: $143,000-$191,000 USD
• Comprehensive benefits package, including equity grants