Manufacturing Safety Engineering Lead

Telemetry Today LLC; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking an experienced Manufacturing Safety Engineering leader to stand up and scale a dedicated safety discipline across our production sites. You will build the team, define risk-assessment frameworks, and drive adoption of safety practices on the factory floor.

The role requires 10+ years in manufacturing/machine safety with leadership, deep expertise in machine safeguarding and formal risk assessment, and the ability to steer cross-functional programs

Qualifications

• B.S. Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or Safety Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline
• 10+ years of experience in manufacturing/machine safety, equipment/controls engineering, or a related discipline, with at least 3 years in a leadership role
• Proven track record building, scaling, and managing technical teams and establishing engineering processes or disciplines
• Deep expertise in formal machine and task-based risk assessment and machine safeguarding, applied across equipment, fixtures, and processes
• Strong working knowledge of applicable OSHA 29 CFR 1910 general-industry requirements (machine guarding, lockout/tagout, electrical, PPE, materials handling) as engineering controls
• Experience partnering with EHS, manufacturing, and design organizations to embed safety into equipment and production processes
• Strategic thinking with the ability to balance hands‑on technical authority with organizational leadership responsibilities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence cross‑functionally at all levels
• Eligibility to pursue and maintain a U.S. security clearance, as required

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop the Manufacturing Safety Engineering team, including hiring, leveling, mentoring, and performance management, as the discipline scales across Anduril.
• Establish and standardize the manufacturing-safety framework: risk-assessment methodology, templates, risk-acceptance criteria, safety sign-off gates, and the management-of-change process, aligned to the business.
• Grow the manufacturing-safety discipline across Anduril, driving adoption across production lines and sites and defining the standards of record, in partnership with Manufacturing, EHS, and product engineering.
• Define and communicate the discipline’s vision, goals, roadmap, and operating model, and integrate manufacturing-safety practices across all stages of production development.
• Own manufacturing-safety metrics, KPIs, and executive-level reporting; represent the discipline to leadership and to customer and defense-program stakeholders.
• Manage resource allocation and capacity planning across concurrent programs and sites, and manage budget, tooling, and external partnerships (EHS, controls integrators, certification bodies).
• Serve as the senior technical authority and final risk-acceptance escalation point for the highest-consequence manufacturing hazards.
• Lead formal machine and task-based risk assessments on production equipment, fixtures, tooling, and processes, documenting hazards, risk ratings, required controls, and residual risk.
• Review manufacturing work instructions and supporting training material for safety adequacy; author Job Hazard Analyses (JHA) and embed the required controls, PPE, and safe-work steps.
• Engineer and review production equipment such as lift fixtures and material-handling aids in partnership with EHS, and support proof-load testing.
• Assess and design safety into production test equipment.
• Apply the hierarchy of controls and prevention-through-design principles to eliminate or reduce hazards at the equipment and line-design stage.
• Define functional-safety requirements for safety-related control systems and verify their implementation.
• Partner with EHS to ensure engineering controls satisfy applicable OSHA 29 CFR 1910 general-industry requirements (machine guarding, lockout/tagout, electrical, PPE, materials handling).
• Support incident and near-miss investigations and root-cause analysis; drive corrective engineering actions and management of change.

Skills

Leadership

Risk assessment

Machine safety

OSHA standards

Cross-functional

Strategic thinking

Communication

Security clearance

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking an experienced Manufacturing Safety Engineering leader to stand up and scale a dedicated safety discipline across our production sites. You will build the team, define risk-assessment frameworks, and drive adoption of safety practices on the factory floor.

The role requires 10+ years in manufacturing/machine safety with leadership, deep expertise in machine safeguarding and formal risk assessment, and the ability to steer cross-functional programs