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Anduril

Builds autonomous weapons for the US and allies

Industrial Engineering Lead - Maritime Production System Design

Manufacturing EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSanta Ana, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A background in industrial engineering, production planning, scheduling, or manufacturing operations; no degree is required, and demonstrated capability through apprenticeship, Navy Nuclear Power School, military experience, trade background, or self-taught modeling is accepted.
  • Experience with critical chain, theory of constraints, or buffer management.
  • Experience in a low-volume, high-mix, or engineered-to-order environment.
  • Ability to operate without direct supervision and make decisions within defined limits.
  • Demonstrated capacity or rate modeling experience, including building and defending the model and being accountable for the resulting number.
  • Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the critical chain production model and provide flexible capacity across scheduling and production control.
  • Own and update the integrated schedule model across programs and shared resources as demand and capacity change.
  • Develop plant and equipment layouts, material-flow paths, and space allocation for a new maritime factory.
  • Build the production model, including precedence networks, resource definitions, durations, and constraints.
  • Integrate frequent changes into the model and keep it aligned with actual work execution.
  • Size and manage buffers, track consumption, and drive recovery.
  • Develop capacity plans and rate models, including units per year under a given configuration and the associated sensitivity analysis.
  • Sequence operations and workflows, determining station breakdown, parallel work, and unit location and duration.
  • Use discrete-event simulation of the factory and production line to validate capacity before the facility exists.
  • Design and optimize the production system by integrating design, supply base, facilities, equipment, and personnel.
  • Feed the precedence network used by the LOKI dynamic scheduling system.
  • Set technical direction for production system design across VCS and Megalodon build processes for others to execute.
  • Provide requirements to the architecture and engineering firm and outside consultants, and review their deliverables.
  • Conduct trade studies for design reviews, including building configuration, bay allocation, automation degree, and station count.
  • Provide coverage for scheduling and production control gaps.

Desired Qualifications

  • 10+ years in production system design, factory design, or manufacturing engineering for large complex products, including ownership of a capacity or rate commitment on at least one program.
  • A bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, operations research, manufacturing engineering, systems engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Shipyard or aerospace final-assembly experience, including stage of construction, module breakdown, pre-outfitting, and erection sequence.
  • Greenfield or major-expansion factory experience.
  • Fluency with manufacturing execution systems or enterprise resource planning systems, including Forge, Odoo, SAP, Solumina, or Oracle.
  • Experience with the Aurora scheduling system.

About the Company

Anduril

Builds autonomous weapons for the US and allies

Anduril builds autonomous weapons, such as drones, cruise missiles, and robot submarines, for the US military and its allies, often developing them with its own money before any order arrives. In 2024 it beat Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman for an Air Force contract to develop Fury, a pilotless jet that flies alongside crewed fighters. Its Lattice software merges camera and radar feeds into one live map and lets a few operators direct many drones and weapons at once, including other companies' systems. Governments buy its systems under contract, and Anduril builds much of the hardware in its own factories. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey co-founded Anduril in 2017, and it is based in Costa Mesa, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Private
Total funding
$11.5B
Headquarters
Costa Mesa, CA
Founded
2017

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