Senior Maintenance Technician, 2nd Shift

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 66,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Senior Maintenance Technician to join the Manufacturing Operations Team. You’ll be involved in every aspect of the asset lifecycle from commissioning to preventative maintenance, emergencies, and calibration for multiple product lines.

This role requires hands-on work with automated conveyance, controls and vision systems, torque tools, factory automation, and robotics.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience setting up, integrating, and troubleshooting automated systems AND/OR torque tools.
• Technology development experience in automated equipment and torque tools.
• Hands-on in a manufacturing environment next to operations and manufacturing engineering.
• Experience in a startup or fast paced environment with changing demands.
• U.S. Person due to access to export controlled information/facilities.
• Willing to work 2nd shift: 3 PM - 11:30 PM and overtime/weekends.

Responsibilities

• Support design, construction, commissioning, and start-up of production systems at new factory sites.
• Provide technical feedback on processes, materials, and technologies to meet timelines.
• Work hands-on to expedite project completion under tight timelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver production system solutions.
• Ensure operational availability of manufacturing equipment including robotics and automation.
• Improve equipment reliability with controls and equipment engineering teams.
• Act as first-responding problem solvers to keep production running.
• Physical duties: walking, standing, bending, kneeling, and climbing ladders all day.

Skills

Automated systems troubleshooting

Torque tools

Hands-on manufacturing

Startup/fast-paced environment

U.S. Person for export control access

Tools

Torque tools

Automated equipment

Factory automation

Vision systems

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 Team

Anduril’s Manufacturing Operations Team is seeking a Senior Maintenance Technician 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 Technician, 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
• Willing to work assigned shift hours, overtime and weekends as needed. Estimated shift times: 2nd shift: 3 PM - 11:30 PM

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

$48—$57 USD

Benefits

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

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.

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