Senior Industrial Engineer, Labor Standards

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

The Manufacturing Design Team is seeking a Senior Industrial Engineer to own and scale the enterprise labor standards capability and system.

The role involves owning Anduril's enterprise labor standards capability as a long-lived, foundational asset , architecting it for consistency, traceability, and organizational adoption rather than ad-hoc studies.

Responsibilities:

• Own Anduril's enterprise labor standards capability as a long-lived, foundational asset
• Define the enterprise standard for how time studies are conducted
• Design and deploy standardized tools and formats for time study execution
• Establish and maintain a centralized labor standards repository
• Own the integration between labor standards and MES
• Define when and how time studies are triggered across the NPI maturity plan
• Build the business process for maintaining labor standards through engineering change
• Conduct and lead the highest-stakes time studies and train BL embedded IEs
• Proactively identify operations with high labor variation, inconsistent standards, or outdated studies
• Translate labor standards into action
• Drive the migration from scattered, inconsistent study files and tribal knowledge to a governed, centralized platform
• Make standards accessible to non-specialists
• Establish how the team leverages AI tools to accelerate standards work
• Mentor other engineers on time study methodology

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience developing and maintaining labor standards in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
• Hands-on proficiency in multiple time study methodologies
• Deep understanding of time study fundamentals
• Experience designing and deploying standardized time study processes, tools, and templates
• Demonstrated experience integrating labor standards with MES, ERP, or production planning systems
• Strong understanding of how labor standards connect to downstream IE deliverables
• Ability to read technical documentation
• A track record of building tools, processes, or systems that others actually used and maintained
• Ability to work in ambiguity and communicate measurement uncertainty clearly

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field
• Experience standing up a centralized labor standards capability from scratch
• Experience managing labor standards through NPI maturity stages
• Prior work in high-mix, complex manufacturing or defense/aerospace environments
• Proficiency with data analytics and visualization tools
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, and Six Sigma principles
• Knowledge of learning curve theory
• Experience with video-based time study tools and software
• Experience integrating labor standards with earned value management