Industrial Engineer

Anduril; Rhode Island; On-site; USD 111,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Quonset, RI is seeking an Industrial Engineer to optimize manufacturing operations and own site-level factory layouts as part of the 3SI team. The role blends line-level support with a site-wide remit, ensuring efficient material flow and capital equipment decisions.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and Factory Services to scale processes, reduce bottlenecks, and implement data-driven improvements across the facility, aligning with program needs

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a rate manufacturing environment with complex assemblies.
• Experience using real operational data to drive decisions.
• Experience with AutoCAD.
• Value stream mapping, continuous/one-piece flow, and workstation design.
• Lean manufacturing principles/implementation.
• Read drawings and vendor schematics; understand hardware processes across electronics and mechanics.
• Knowledge of material flow, Kanban, MIN/MAX concepts.
• Discrete event simulation experience.
• Working knowledge of MES/ERP systems (Oracle or equivalent).
• Eligible for U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Deliver IE standards: capacity planning, labor standards, time studies, layouts, and DES.
• Deploy as shared resource across lines; scope and deliver work with Manufacturing leads.
• Own site-level factory layout and material flow, optimize movement between receiving, storage, lineside, and shared services.
• Specify and justify capital equipment; support vendor selection, installation, and qualification to production readiness.
• Lead cross-functional projects for site infrastructure and process improvements.
• Own operations health KPIs; build tools and reports for line and site health.
• Identify bottlenecks and drive resolution with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Quality.

Skills

AutoCAD

Lean Manufacturing

Discrete Event Simulation

Line Layout

Value Stream Mapping

Kanban

MIN MAX

MES ERP

Security Clearance

SQL

Palantir Foundry

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering

Tools

Simio

Siemens Plant Simulation

Palantir Foundry

Oracle ERP

Job description

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 JOB

We are looking for an Industrial Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Quonset, RI. This role sits within our technical shared services organization (3SI) and carries a dual mandate. First, you operate as a flexible resource for the site: production lines "lease" your time to design and optimize their manufacturing operations as their needs peak and shift — moving across programs and bringing data-driven IE rigor to production line and workstation design, capital equipment, and the metrics that keep a line healthy. Second, you hold a standing factory-macro remit on behalf of 3SI: owning site-level factory layouts, leading cross-functional technical projects, and optimizing material flow across the whole facility rather than any single line. You'll zoom from one line's workstation up to how the entire site moves material and uses its floor space, working shoulder-to-shoulder with Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Business Operations, and the Factory Services team to get complex undersea hardware built and shipped to spec.
If you are someone who thrives on bringing order to a fast-scaling production floor — and can hold both the single-line detail and the whole-factory picture at once — this role is for you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Deliver core Industrial Engineering standards and capabilities to Quonset's production lines — capacity planning, labor standards, time studies, workstation and line layouts, and discrete event simulation (DES)
• Deploy across production lines as a shared resource — partnering with each line's Manufacturing leads to scope the work, deliver it, and hand off cleanly
• Own site-level factory layout and material flow — plan and maintain the master floor layout and optimize how material moves between receiving, storage, lineside, and shared services as programs scale and new capabilities come online
• Specify, justify, and deploy capital equipment and tooling — define requirements, own the business case and capex justification, and support vendor selection, build, install, and qualification through to production readiness.
• Lead cross-functional technical projects on behalf of 3SI — scope, schedule, and drive site infrastructure, equipment, and process-improvement initiatives from definition through execution.
• Own operations health metrics and KPIs and build the tools and reports that communicate line and site health across the org.
• Identify bottlenecks and constraints across layout, part shortages, staffing, and tooling, then drive resolution with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Quality.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years past experience in a rate manufacturing environment and production-type role where complex mechanical and/or electrical assemblies were built.
• Experience using real operational data to make informed suggestions and decisions.
• Experience and demonstrated skills with AutoCAD.
• Proven line/facility design: value stream mapping, continuous/one-piece flow, and workstation design
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing principles/implementation.
• Able to read technical documentation (drawings, vendor schematics, CAD) and understand hardware processes across electronics and mechanical structures
• Understanding of the means and methods of how material flows around a facility including but not limited to pull systems + triggers, Kanban and MIN MAX calculations.
• Experience modeling operations using discrete event simulation.
• Working knowledge of an MES and an ERP (Oracle or equivalent).
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's or higher in Industrial, Mechanical, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Electrical, or Computer Engineering.
• Hands-on design of tooling, fixtures, or GSE (ground support equipment) for heavy or large-format hardware.
• Data analytics knowledge and experience including the use of SQL to create complex custom queries, mining and joining tables from production and supply chain databases (experience with Palantir Foundry a plus).
• Experience creating and owning program, project or production schedules.
• Experience with Simio and/or Siemen’s Plant Simulation.
• Experience in a marine, subsea, or other regulated/harsh-environment hardware program

US Salary Range

$111,000 — $147,000 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, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.