# Senior NPI Engineer

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Sydney, New South Wales
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: competitive equity grants
**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.

You will be the programmatic horsepower behind new product entry across our undersea portfolio where new design becomes production: deciding whether a product definition is ready to enter the factory, and shaping the run-up so that every cross-functional team has the right data, in the right form, with enough lead time to act on it.

## Responsibilities

- Own the end-to-end NPI plan and readiness schedule for assigned programs, aligning engineering releases, supply chain execution and production work-ups against a single build date.

- Define and assess production readiness of product engineering , completeness at gate entry, manufacturing baseline maturity, and readiness to commit long-lead spend and convening the right functions to resolve readiness gaps.

- Run cross-functional NPI planning forums that align engineering outputs to production system inputs, escalating issues and managing production starts.

- Align internal Production scope to support readiness , quality plans, inspection instructions, work instructions, tooling and fixturing.

- Drive gate and Manufacturing Readiness Review (MRR) readiness, including the evidence that each function has done what the gate assumes.

- Represent Production at the Change Control Board, so change entering the production system is understood against the build schedule.

- Run DFx reviews that surface manufacturability opportunities early and flow production issues and observations back into design.

- Build the function as you run it: publish standardised guidance on what engineering inputs must contain, their expected maturity, format and audience; objective production-readiness checklists; gate-stage DFX criteria and review cadence; and a repeatable method for coordinating multi-site NPI.

- Own factory-to-factory transfer for new production sites, flowing down NPI data as it becomes transferable, so day-1 scope at a receiving site is planned rather than inherited.

- Resolve emergent multi-site NPI issues , design-versus-production jurisdiction, supply chain alternates, localisation questions and escalate with a recommendation.

- Track risks, issues and actions with clear mitigation and escalation.

## Required Qualifications

- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Mechatronic, Industrial or Process Engineering, or a related technical field.

- 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment, including direct involvement in New Product Introduction or design-to-production transition.

- Demonstrated ownership of a product moving from engineering definition into a production environment, against a committed date.

- Strong programme and schedule management skills, with a proven ability to drive complex cross-functional work to a deadline.

- Technical credibility to interrogate an engineering release , drawings, BOMs, configuration and change records , and form an independent view on whether it is production-ready.

- Working knowledge of manufacturing and quality systems, engineering change workflows (ECR/ECO), and BOM/PLM structures.

- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills; the ability to influence and lead cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority.

- Willingness and ability to travel internationally as required.

- Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance.

## Benefits

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including a comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) that ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Mechatronic Engineering
- Industrial Engineering
- Process Engineering
- Programme Management
- Schedule Management
- Cross-functional Team Leadership
- Engineering Change Workflows
- BOM/PLM Structures
- Communication
- Interpersonal Skills

### Nice to have
- Defence
- Aerospace
- Maritime
- Highly Regulated Industry
- Quality and Documentation Requirements
- First-of-type or Prototype-to-rate Production Transition
- Multi-site or Multi-jurisdiction Manufacturing
- Export-control and Design-localisation Considerations
- eBOM-to-mBOM Release Flow
- Manufacturing Baseline Definition
- International Teams
- Cultural Differences

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