Senior Manufacturing Continuous Improvement Engineer

Frontdoor Defense; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Sydney, NSW is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to own the factory-wide continuous-improvement program for electromechanical production. You will lead value stream mapping, Kaizen events, PFMEA, and align with mechanical design for tooling and fixtures to improve cycle times and yield.

The role requires 8+ years of manufacturing/CI experience, strong problem-solving, and ability to influence across disciplines.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in manufacturing with CI/Lean, PFMEA and supplier industrialisation in electromechanical production.
• Strong understanding of mechanical systems assembly and manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Own the manufacturing CI program — lead value stream mapping (current-state and future-state), facilitate Kaizen and rapid improvement events, and drive yield improvement and scrap reduction initiatives from data through to verified countermeasure.
• Deploy structured problem-solving methodology (8D, A3, 5-Why) as a tool for production investigations. Partner with MEs/QEs and production techs on root-cause analysis for complex defects.
• Proactively identify production bottlenecks caused by line layout, work distribution, staffing shortages, and other production constraints by understanding Cycle Time and Quality Metrics.
• Identify and lead cost-reduction / cost-avoidance initiatives originating from the manufacturing process — tooling, cycle time, material utilisation, scrap-to-rework conversion.
• Own PFMEA development and cross-functional facilitation — bring production failure-mode insight from CI data into the PFMEA, and ensure Control Plans are linked and current.
• Author and maintain equipment and process SOPs — the operational documents referenced by product work instructions that define how to set up, operate, and verify production equipment.
• Be the interface between mechanical design and the production floor for tooling, fixtures, and production equipment — define requirements based on process needs, work with the mechanical design engineer to develop solutions, and own implementation and verification on the floor.
• Support capital equipment justification and business cases linked to rate ramp and automation needs.
• Work closely with QA and SC teams on supplier industrialisation — assess supplier manufacturing capability, facilitate Supplier Production Readiness Reviews, and conduct on-site process audits for critical and sole-source suppliers.
• Work with design engineers to embed Design for Manufacturing (DFM) features and principles in product design.
• Capture lessons learned from production and supplier events and actively disseminate them into NPI programs so the same failure mode is not designed back in.
• Foster a collaborative environment that encourages knowledge sharing and team engagement.

Skills

Continuous Improvement

PFMEA

Kaizen / Lean

Root Cause Analysis

DFM / DFA

Supplier Audits

Problem Solving (8D/A3/5-Whys)

MES/ERP knowledge

Tools

NX/Teamcenter CAD

MES/ERP systems

Job description

Anduril Industries in Sydney, NSW is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to own the factory-wide continuous-improvement program for electromechanical production. You will lead value stream mapping, Kaizen events, PFMEA, and align with mechanical design for tooling and fixtures to improve cycle times and yield.

The role requires 8+ years of manufacturing/CI experience, strong problem-solving, and ability to influence across disciplines.