Manufacturing Process Engineer, Supply Chain Material Flow

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Manufacturing Process Engineer to optimize warehouse and material flow across a global manufacturing platform. You will partner with Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, and Business Operations to drive best-in-class quality, reliability, speed, and asset utilization while meeting deployment timelines.

The role requires ownership of process improvements, experience with high-rate manufacturing, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering is required.
• 3+ years in a high-rate supply chain or manufacturing environment.
• Ability to read technical docs, CAD data, and understand hardware manufacturing processes.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time.
• Willingness to relocate for onsite work in Costa Mesa, CA.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across programs from development to full-rate production.
• Identify bottlenecks and align owners across Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering, and Quality.
• Own metrics and KPIs for line health, cycle time, throughput, and inventory accuracy.
• Conduct time studies to improve warehouse and operations efficiency.
• Develop workflows for highly variable demands across multiple sites.
• Create tools to improve work demand forecasting using data-driven methods.
• Translate reports into actionable tasks to improve warehouse performance.
• Push improvements quickly to the floor and iterate toward world-class levels.

Skills

High-rate supply chain experience

Analytical problem solving

Reading engineering drawings/CAD data

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Siemens Plant Simulation

Visual Components

Process Simulation software

MES/WMS systems

SQL databases

ERP systems (NetSuite/Oracle)

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

Anduril’s Supply Chain team is seeking an Manufacturing Process Engineer to join us. Working with a global network of suppliers, to support a global manufacturing platform takes people who are willing to work hard and find ways to win. As an Manufacturing Process Engineer, you will have the responsibility to optimize Anduril’s supply chain's warehousing and material flow operations for best-in-class quality, reliability, speed, and asset utilization, all while meeting critical customer deployment and internal development timelines. Executing on this responsibility will entail active collaboration with other Anduril teams, including but not limited to Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, and Business Operations.
The right person for this role can demonstrate past holistic ownership on solving operational challenges with creative solutions in a fast-paced, resource-limited environment. This person will be flexible to provide support wherever needed to ensure products are built and shipped under stringent quality standards. If you are someone who thrives in such an environment, then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• 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.

REQUIRED 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with using Siemens Plant Simulation, Visual Components, or Process Simulation software to model a production line and run production scenarios
• Experience with department or factory design and set up - value stream mapping, flow lines, continuous flow, one piece flow, workstation design
• Ability to completely own a value chain from start to finish, measuring each step of the process, creating actionable tasks that culminated in a significant and sustainable business improvement
• Demonstrated ability of presenting project results to a cross functional team with clearly relating data to proposed next steps
• Prior experience with a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for production operations or Warehouse Management System (WMS)
• Prior knowledge of NetSuite, Oracle or a similar Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system
• Experience implementing Lean Manufacturing principles which drive manufacturing productivity
• Experience in delivering successful project by being hands on with the process. Including gemba walks, operational analysis, poka yoke solutions among others to allow teams to be successful without massive CAPEX
• Experience interacting with SQL databases - storage of information and building custom queries for tracking production and inventory-related metrics

US Salary Range

$113,000 — $149,000 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.