Crisis Management Training Lead

CurationsLA; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a dedicated Crisis Management Lead within its Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) organization, focused on training, education, and exercises to enhance crisis preparedness and incident response across sites. You will design curricula, deliver instruction, and facilitate drills while maintaining training records for regulatory compliance.

This role reports to the Crisis Management Manager and collaborates with Facilities, Corporate Security, Operations, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
• 3-5 years of experience in crisis management, emergency preparedness, or a related field focused on incident response, including significant experience developing and delivering training, exercises, or instructional content.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to the development of emergency response plans and to translate them into clear, teachable training content, including written curriculum, presentations, and facilitator guides.
• Experience designing, facilitating, or evaluating tabletop, drill, or functional exercises.
• Experience maintaining training, drill, or compliance records in support of regulatory or audit requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate procedures and to instruct technical and non‑technical audiences, including senior leaders.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across organizations and with stakeholders outside the immediate reporting line.
• Solid analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain relevant security clearances.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Crisis Management Training Program: Own the design, development, and continuous improvement of the training and education program that prepares the Crisis Management Team (CMT), site Emergency Response Teams (ERTs), floor wardens, and the broader workforce to execute Anduril's ERPs and EAPs.
• Build Role-Based Curriculum: Develop, create, maintain, and update training content for CMT and ERT members, including onboarding briefs, role‑specific instruction, job aids, quick‑reference cards, refreshers, e‑learning modules, and facilitator guides, that translates plans and playbooks into clear, actionable skills.
• Design and Facilitate Training, Drills, and Exercises: Build and run a progressive exercise program, from orientation seminars and tabletop exercises to drills and functional exercises, around customized, site‑specific crisis scenarios that institutionalize response protocols and promote awareness; prepare scenario packages, inject schedules, and evaluation guides; and lead hotwashes and after‑action reviews.
• Deliver Training: Serve as the primary instructor for crisis management and emergency response training, delivering engaging sessions in person and virtually to technical and non‑technical audiences, from site personnel to senior leadership, across multiple sites and shifts.
• Drive Workforce Preparedness and Awareness: Develop and deliver new‑hire emergency preparedness orientation, awareness campaigns, and education content so every employee knows how to recognize, report, and respond to an emergency.
• Help Ensure Regulatory Compliance: Maintain records of training completion, drill and exercise documentation, rosters, and certifications, and support efforts to ensure crisis management training and practices meet applicable federal, state, and local regulatory requirements and industry best practices, on demand and during audits or inspections.
• Measure Competency and Effectiveness: Track participation, completion, and demonstrated competency; evaluate training and exercise outcomes against defined objectives; report training and exercise metrics to EH&S leadership; and use the results to target where additional instruction is needed.
• Coordinate the Training and Exercise Calendar: Plan and manage the annual schedule of training, drills, and exercises across sites in partnership with the Crisis Management Manager, Facilities, and site leadership.
• Support Emergency Response and Action Plans: Assist in the design, writing, and implementation of Emergency Response Plans (ERPs), Emergency Action Plans (EAPs), and associated protocols, and translate each plan into the training, job aids, and exercises personnel need to carry it out.
• Support Risk Assessment: Assist in identifying and analyzing potential risks relevant to emergency scenarios, contribute to mitigation strategies within ERPs, and use those findings to prioritize training needs and build realistic exercise scenarios.
• Contribute to Communication Management: Assist in establishing and testing clear communication channels for emergency situations, building communication checks into drills and exercises so stakeholders receive timely and accurate information.
• Assist with Crisis Management Support: Support the coordination of responses during critical incidents, helping to minimize confusion and downtime by ensuring adherence to established Crisis Management playbooks, ERPs, and EAPs, and translate after‑action findings into training improvements.
• Collaborate Cross‑Functionally: Work with Facilities, Corporate Security, Legal, HR, Operations, Engineering, and site leadership so that training reflects real response procedures and crisis response strategies align with organizational goals across locations.
• Partner Within EH&S: Coordinate with occupational safety, industrial hygiene, and environmental compliance colleagues so that crisis training and plans reflect site‑specific hazards, and support their training needs by helping build content, standardize instructional quality, and coordinate delivery.
• Support Continuous Improvement: Contribute to the regular review and update of the Crisis Management framework, playbooks, ERPs, EAPs, and training content based on lessons learned from actual incidents, exercises, and emerging threats.

Skills

Crisis management

Emergency preparedness

Training development

Facilitation

Regulatory compliance

Written and verbal communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Security clearance eligibility

Public speaking

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Learning management system (LMS)

Crisis management software

EH&S management software

Mass notification tools

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a dedicated Crisis Management Lead within its Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) organization, focused on training, education, and exercises to enhance crisis preparedness and incident response across sites. You will design curricula, deliver instruction, and facilitate drills while maintaining training records for regulatory compliance.

This role reports to the Crisis Management Manager and collaborates with Facilities, Corporate Security, Operations, and