Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Missiles
Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, CA
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 8+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management manufacturing role at Anduril Industries (aerospace & defense) in Costa Mesa, CA. You will be responsible for leading a manufacturing engineering team to drive process improvements, ensure the highest quality of production, and support the development and implementation of new products.
- They ask for
- 8+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- Machining, Capacity planning
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About the role
As a Lead Manufacturing Engineer , you will be responsible for leading a manufacturing engineering team to drive process improvements, ensure the highest quality of production, and support the development and implementation of new products. The diverse
responsibilities
of this role will require you to leverage your technical expertise as well as leadership skills to set objectives, build cross-functional teams, and drive rapid project execution. You will play a crucial role in optimizing manufacturing processes, reducing costs, and increasing efficiencies on existing technologies while developing new products and scaling to full scale production.
Required qualifications
- ✓Degree in a technical field such as engineering, math, a hard science or equivalent work experience.
- ✓8+ years in manufacturing or similar prototyping position.
- ✓Demonstrated in-kind or direct team leadership skills, with backing examples.
- ✓An attitude of world-class mission assurance, quality, attention to detail, and dedication.
- ✓A genuine interest in manufacturing and thirst for learning.
- ✓Demonstrated ability to creatively deliver hardware in a resource-constrained environment.
- ✓Personal experience physically manufacturing hardware via any means (machining, fabrication, soldering, assembly, etc.). Work on personal or extracurricular projects is a plus.
- ✓Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Preferred qualifications
- ✓Experience building or transforming successful production operation organizations and leading large-scale change management initiatives that influence culture, define tools & processes and improve competencies.
- ✓Harness & PCBA fabrication experience including prior work with or setup/modification/monitoring SMT processes.
- ✓Experience leading and managing teams on fast-paced, complex projects.
- ✓Hands-on experience with R/C and/or autonomous flight vehicles, flight controllers, or other related control systems.
- ✓Software scripting experience in any language.
- ✓Current active U.S. Secret security clearance
$146,000 — $194,000 USD
Benefits
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, a
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Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
About the team
Anduril’s Missiles Manufacturing team is seeking a Lead Manufacturing Engineer to lead the manufacturing process development for our products. The Manufacturing Team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defense hardware, including static equipment, moving ground equipment, and complex vehicles. This responsibility includes everything in the manufacturing value-chain including, but not limited to, Design for Manufacturability, tool design & selection, process creation & optimization, vendor sourcing & interaction, quality planning, and work documentation associated with the hardware.
What you’ll do
- •Execute the manufacturing of a certain product or set of products, from initial prototyping through large full-scale production.
- •Lead a team responsible for delivering on-time completion of development and production units within a product group.
- •Work with design engineers during the development process to drive design for manufacturing best practices into the design effort, and help facilitate the transition from design to prototype to rate production.
- •Act as a manufacturing lead for mechanical fabrication and avionics with subject matter expertise in these areas and key experience in design for manufacturability.
- •Own documentation required for successfully manufacturing product group hardware at scale, such as MBOM’s, work instructions & requirements, etc.
- •Uphold and advise on quality management and business application programs as they pertain to manufacturing within your area.
- •Facilitate make versus buy decisions, and coordinate with internal supply chain teams to manage vendors to ensure quality deliveries on time.
- •Collaborate with internal customers and manufacturing planning teams to define capacity planning actions to meet customer needs and expectations.
- •Analyze metrics for continuous improvement initiatives (cost reduction, QI reduction & capacity increase).
- •Instill a culture of innovation, teamwork, and accountability within the manufacturing engineering product team.
- •Develop production and test methodologies and implement best practices to enable scaling production capabilities for larger, more complex products.
- •Travel to suppliers and partner sites to do initial sourcing work, solve ongoing production issues, and implement process procedures as required.
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