Industrial Engineer: Scale High-Rate Manufacturing Ops

Anduril; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 113,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA, is seeking an Industrial Engineer to optimize warehousing and material flow across a global manufacturing platform. You will own metrics such as cycle time, throughput, capacity, and inventory accuracy while collaborating with Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, and Business Operations to meet tight deployment timelines.

Ideal candidates have a Bachelor’s degree in engineering and 3+ years of experience in high-rate manufacturing with data-driven processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in a high-rate supply chain or manufacturing environment, where complex mechanical and/or electrical assemblies are built with heavy data utilization.
• Ability to read technical documentation such as drawings and CAD data, understanding of a variety of hardware manufacturing processes for both electronics (PCBAs, sensor hardware, etc.) and structures, mechanical components, and electromechanical systems.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
• Ability to relocate, if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA.

Responsibilities

• Passionately work across multiple programs from development to full rate production to scale best-in-class solutions to align with maturity of manufacturing process.
• Proactively identify imbalances and bottlenecks caused by inventory processes, line layouts, parts shortages, staffing shortages, and other production constraints; flag constraints with the appropriate owners across Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering, and Quality and drive to resolution.
• Own the metrics, KPIs, and reporting associated with monitoring production line health and efficiency, such as cycle time, throughput rate, capacity, utilization, process non-conformities, and inventory accuracy.
• Time studies of current and developing processes to ensure efficiency across warehouse and operations.
• Develop processes to optimize workplans for highly variable demands across multiple sites.
• Translate tools and reports into actionable tasks that impact the health of warehouse operations across a plethora of processes and sites.
• Produce and maintain tools to increase accuracy of work demand for new facilities and maturing processes using a data-driven approach using tools such as Value Stream Mapping/ Process Mapping/ Line Balancing techniques.
• Be badass and make an impact to the warehouse team. Value incremental improvements and push them to the floor as quickly as possible. Then iterate until we reach a world-class level.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA, is seeking an Industrial Engineer to optimize warehousing and material flow across a global manufacturing platform. You will own metrics such as cycle time, throughput, capacity, and inventory accuracy while collaborating with Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, and Business Operations to meet tight deployment timelines.

Ideal candidates have a Bachelor’s degree in engineering and 3+ years of experience in high-rate manufacturing with data-driven processes.