Senior Industrial Engineer — Digital Twin Factory & Lean

Anduril-1; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 126,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Health benefits

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Industrial Engineer to join our Manufacturing Team and drive simulation-based optimization for our high-velocity production lines at Arsenal-1. You will model processes, layouts and capacity, integrating manufacturing, supply chain, and quality concerns to enable on-time production in a fast-paced defense environment.

The role requires ownership mindset, ability to operate with ambiguity, and experience with simulation tools or data-driven planning.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Experience with Technomatix “Plant Sim” or equivalent DES, or programming knowledge (Python, R, C++, Java) or working with large data sets (SQL/No-SQL).
• Ability to read facility drawings, assembly drawings, technical specifications for electronics/mechanical assemblies; procedures for manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Capture the current process including all physical constraints, business rules and detailed decision logic into a 3D simulation-based virtual factory.
• Create feasible results, plans and schedules for shop floor, warehouse, factory & supply chain execution; ensure resource/capacity/material feasibility.
• Maintain an adaptive, data-driven virtual factory to reflect current status for future transformations and investments.
• Own the design of new production lines and workstation layouts for low/high-rate production using a data-driven approach.
• Identify high-variation processes, bottlenecks, and constraints; coordinate with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Quality to resolve.
• Translate KPIs and metrics into actions to improve line health and efficiency (cycle time, throughput, capacity, utilization, first-pass yield).
• Produce and maintain capacity plans, balanced line layouts, staffing allocations, and time standards for manufacturing work.
• Collaborate on end-to-end operational improvements for next-gen defense products as we scale manufacturing.
• Work across execution and strategic domains from hands-on production to future state planning.

Skills

Manufacturing experience

Plant Simulation (PlantSim)

DES software

Programming basics

SQL / data analysis

Tools

Promodel

FlexSim

Simio

Python

SQL

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Industrial Engineer to join our Manufacturing Team and drive simulation-based optimization for our high-velocity production lines at Arsenal-1. You will model processes, layouts and capacity, integrating manufacturing, supply chain, and quality concerns to enable on-time production in a fast-paced defense environment.

The role requires ownership mindset, ability to operate with ambiguity, and experience with simulation tools or data-driven planning.