Senior Maintenance Technician

Anduril; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 52,348 - 61,992; Full time

Job summary

Anduril is seeking a Senior Maintenance Specialist in Costa Mesa, California. This role involves managing the asset lifecycle from commissioning to maintenance and troubleshooting of automated systems and tooling within a fast-paced manufacturing environment. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in automation technologies and a strong commitment to operational availability. Compensation ranges from $38 to $45 per hour, with a focus on teamwork and creative solutions in production settings.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with automated systems and torque tools.
• Hands-on experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in fast-paced environments with changing demands.

Responsibilities

• Support the commissioning and start-up of new production systems.
• Provide technical feedback on product processes.
• Ensure availability of manufacturing equipment through maintenance.

Skills

Automated systems troubleshooting

Torque tools experience

Hands-on manufacturing experience

Project completion under tight timelines

Process improvement

Tools

Automated conveyance technologies

Factory automation

Testing equipment

Job description

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril’s Manufacturing Operations Team is seeking a Senior Maintenance Specialist to join our team. The Manufacturing Maintenance team is responsible for helping scale production at Anduril and ensuring maximum equipment uptime, a world class preventative maintenance program, and supporting line commissioning of our growing production landscape.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Senior Maintenance Specialist, you will be involved in every aspect of the asset lifecycle from commissioning to preventative maintenance, to emergency maintenance, and calibration. The right person for this role has developed experience with automated conveyance technologies, controls and vision systems, torque tools, and more across multiple platforms for a variety of product lines, groups, or businesses and integrated with both internal and external customers. If you are someone who wants to develop innovative, adaptive, flexible, creative approaches to equipment and maintenance and develop unified solutions for lots of stakeholders then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Support design, construction, commissioning, and start-up of production systems at new factory sites, ensuring successful delivery of the factory and products off the line.
• Provide technical feedback on product processes, materials, and technologies to mitigate risks and meet production performance and timelines in new facilities.
• Work hands-on to expedite project completion under extremely tight timelines.
• Collaborate with product design, manufacturing engineering, operations, facilities and construction, environmental safety & health, and finance to deliver creative and effective production system solutions.
• Ensure the operational availability of a wide array of manufacturing equipment by installing, maintaining, and repairing mechanical and electrical systems, torque tools, factory automation, and robotics.
• Partner with high-caliber controls and equipment engineering teams to improve equipment reliability and minimize or eliminate downtime.
• Act as first-responding problem solvers, managing machine breakdown recoveries to keep production running.
• This is a physically demanding job working in tight spaces, requiring walking and standing all day, as well as, bending, squatting, kneeling, climbing ladders, and lying on the ground intermittently throughout the day.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of experience setting up, integrating, and troubleshooting automated systems AND/OR torque tools to support processes technology development, manufacturing engineering, and/or production/process engineering
• Technology development experience in automated equipment, testing, and torque tools
• Ability to work hands-on in a manufacturing environment, next to operations and manufacturing engineering to understand and optimize the production system.
• Experience in a startup or fast paced environment with rapidly changing demands and unclear requirements
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior work with engineering partners and/or contractors to build, improve or modify automated production systems
• Process improvement, including justification of return on investment for process or operational changes
• Application of lean manufacturing and linear flow principles in a production environment
• Hands on experience with the leading automated torque tool makers and high volume coating, dispensing, and inspection

US Hourly Range: $38 — $45 USD