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Safety Equipment Engineer, Rocket Motor Systems

Anduril Industries · McHenry, MS

Level
Engineer
Team
Manufacturing
Degree
Required
Experience asked
2+ years
Industry
Aerospace & defense
Posted
30+ days ago

The role in 30 seconds

An engineer-level manufacturing role at Anduril Industries (aerospace & defense) in McHenry, MS. , you will help to ensure automation equipment is designed, validated, and operated to the highest safety standards.

They ask for
2+ years · degree required
Tools it names
Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Robotics, Automation, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, CATIA / NX

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Manufacturing Engineer roles in Mississippi: typical posted base $80k–$112k.

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Experience asked
Less than usual (2+ vs 8+)

Similar roles usually ask 8+ years.

Skills these teams ask for most

  • Tooling 55%
  • Team leadership 50%
  • Root cause 40%
  • ✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 30%
  • New product launch 30%
  • ✓ AutoCAD 30%

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Required qualifications

  • ✓Bachelor's degree in Robotics/Controls, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or similar
  • ✓2+ years of machine safety experience in a production environment
  • ✓Working knowledge of selection, integration, and validation of safety hardware
  • ✓Familiar with machine safety standards such as ISO 12100, ISO 13849, and ANSI B11
  • ✓Familiar with CAD packages including NX, Solidworks, or AutoCAD
  • ✓Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

Preferred qualifications

  • ✓4+ years of machine safety experience in a production environment
  • ✓Functional Safety certification (TUV Rheinland, TUV SUD, or CMSE [TUV NORD]), or willingness to obtain one
  • ✓Experience with control panel layout, electrical component selection, and cable routing
  • ✓Experience interfacing with regulatory agencies and safety committees
  • ✓Experience with energetic or other highly hazardous production processes

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, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits .

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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 Rocket Motor Systems team is seeking a Equipment Safety Engineer III to join our team. The Rocket Motor Systems team is designing and commissioning automated equipment for high rate production of Solid Rocket Motors at our plant in McHenry, MS. In this role, you will help to ensure automation equipment is designed, validated, and operated to the highest safety standards.

What you’ll do

  • •Support machine safety efforts for manufacturing & process equipment at Anduril’s Solid Rocket Motor production facility in McHenry, MS
  • •Serve as a safety resource during design, commissioning, and validation of automated / semi-automated production equipment
  • •Conduct hazard analysis / risk assessments and support safety buyoff for equipment including conveyance, robotics, process equipment, and lifting systems
  • •Specify and validate safety systems including E-Stops, scanners, light curtains, door interlocks, and other relevant hardware
  • •Investigate and provide corrective actions for equipment safety failures or workplace injuries
  • •Ensure regulatory compliance for production equipment

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