# Sr. Manager, Warehouse Ops Excellence

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Ashville, Ohio
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $143,000-$191,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**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.

The Senior Manager, Warehouse Ops Excellence is the management system architect for the Material Movement & Flow (MMF) organization.

You will design and stand up the operating rhythm, continuous improvement methodology, training infrastructure, and KPI framework that warehouse operations runs on.

Once each system is established, you will coach and empower the line to maintain and evolve it independently , your success is measured by how well the systems run without you in the room.

You will also shape the broader MMF organization as it scales , defining functional charters, role boundaries, and operating frameworks that new teams and leaders will inherit.

**Responsibilities**

- Operating Rhythm: Design and facilitate the tiered daily management system , DOR, WOR, and MOR.

- Tier System & Leader Standard Work: Build the tier board system, leader standard work schedules, and escalation protocols.

- Toyota Kata & Continuous Improvement: Serve as the team’s Kata coach.

- Production Program Accountability: Build the governance framework that defines how production programs engage with warehouse operations.

- Training System Architecture: Design the qualification system: skills matrices, standard work documentation, onboarding programs, and train-the-trainer certification.

- KPI Design & Analytics: Define and visualize metrics across all warehouse functions using the SQDIP framework.

- Management System Audits: Design and execute layered process audits.

- Change Management: Lead rollout of new processes, SOPs, and WMS/ERP system changes.

- Multi-Building Operating Structure: Architect the operating model across multiple buildings and programs.

- Organization Design: Partner with the Director to define functional charters, role boundaries, reporting structures, and operating models for new teams and leadership positions.

- Director's Chief of Staff: Serve as the Director's operational chief of staff.

- Budget Process: Own the MMF operating budget build.

- Cross Team Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams.

**Requirements**

- 7+ years in operational excellence, lean manufacturing, production system deployment, or warehouse/manufacturing operations, with 3+ years in a leadership role.

- Expertise in TPS principles: Kata coaching, A3 problem-solving, Kaizen facilitation, and standard work development.

- 3+ years designing and facilitating tiered daily management systems.

- Experience building training and qualification systems in a manufacturing or warehouse environment.

- Proficiency with KPI design, dashboards, and translating data into operational action.

- Experience with ERP/WMS platforms and managing process changes through system transitions.

- Strong analytical skills: labor modeling, budget analysis, and cost-per-unit tracking.

- Excellent communication and coaching skills across all levels.

- Demonstrated ability to operate as a chief of staff or right hand to a senior leader.

- U.S. citizenship is required.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, or related field.

- Defense, aerospace, or government-contract manufacturing environment experience.

- Experience scaling operations from low-volume/prototype to high-rate production.

- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Kata Coach certification, or equivalent credential.

- Familiarity with DFARS, ITAR, and government property requirements.

## Skills

### Required
- Operational Excellence
- Lean Manufacturing
- Production System Deployment
- Warehouse Operations
- Leadership
- TPS Principles
- Kata Coaching
- A3 Problem-Solving
- Kaizen Facilitation
- Standard Work Development
- KPI Design
- Dashboards
- Data Analysis
- ERP/WMS Platforms
- Process Changes
- Analytical Skills
- Communication
- Coaching

### Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering
- Supply Chain Management
- Operations Management
- Defense
- Aerospace
- Government-Contract Manufacturing
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
- Kata Coach certification
- DFARS
- ITAR
- Government Property Requirements

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