Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Special Projects

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer for special projects, you will work across stakeholder to drive the development of new production facilities. The right person for this role has developed a production facility capable meeting the requirements of multiple product lines, groups, or businesses. If you are someone who wants to develop flexible, creative approaches to manufacturing and develop unified solutions for lots of stakeholders, then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Site and Process Flow Design

• Create and own integrated solutions for Anduril’s production requirements with lean manufacturing principles, linear flow, and visual management top of mind. That development will include detailed layout alternatives, production flows, space allocations across programs and products, expansion planning, and operating scenarios
• Question requirements across product design, layout design, and facility design to ensure that Anduril adopts the most cost- and schedule-effective solutions for our factories while meeting the needs of our business lines
• Support design, construction, commissioning and start-up of the production line(s), material flow, and production support processes at new factory sites to ensure successful delivery of the factory and its outputs
• Drive collaboration across manufacturing engineering, operations teams, facilities and construction, environmental safety & health, and finance to deliver creative and effective production solutions
• Interface with external vendors to support the design, construction, and commissioning of new facilities

Capacity Analysis

• Maintain and understand production capacity plans and constraints across several demand scenarios and several product lines
• Provide strategic recommendations on product transitions and allocations across sites to optimize manufacturing resources using a data-driven approach. Buy down risk to meet production timelines in new facilities
• Develop levers across labor, equipment and facilities to understand how Anduril can increase or decrease throughput with varying levels of investment

Business Case Development

• Analyze proposed production flows based on CapEx, headcount, or process changes, developing cohesive analysis and return on investment studies
• Create analytical tools to address delivery, capacity, and cost issues and guide leadership decision-making

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• You have 8+ years of experience as program manager, industrial engineer, manufacturing engineer, or production/process engineer for hardware products
• You have experience with factory layout development in CAD for manufacturing processes and facilities, including analysis of competing options that prioritize contrasting business priorities
• You can work hands-on in a manufacturing environment and draw key learnings that are then used to optimize the production systems
• You have experience with capacity planning and business operating scenario analysis
• You don’t wait on others to solve problems. You proactively step into the gap to offer solutions yourself
• You are comfortable with and good at communicating broadly and having a lot of eyes on your work. This role can at-times require comms to large groups and senior leadership
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior work with architecture and infrastructure engineering partners and/or general contractors to build, improve or modify production facilities
• Experience with energetics manufacturing processes and facilities and have experience with explosive site safety plans
• 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
• Ergonomic studies at the work station and work element level
• Experience with leveraging data from MES and ERP to effectively production, inventory, and capacity plan