Senior Manager, Manufacturing Safety Engineering

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

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Manager of Manufacturing Safety Engineering in Costa Mesa, CA. You will build the MS Safety Engineering team, define risk assessment frameworks, and drive safety across manufacturing lines with EHS and product engineering partners.

Ideal candidates bring deep risk-assessment expertise, leadership experience, and the ability to set strategic direction while handling high-consequence hazards on the factory floor.

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level engineering degree or equivalent in safety/ manufacturing disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop the Manufacturing Safety Engineering team, including hiring and mentoring.

Skills

Leadership & team building

Formal risk assessment

Machine safeguarding

OSHA 29 CFR 1910 knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic planning

Education

B.S. in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Industrial or Safety Engineering

Job description

Senior Manager, Manufacturing Safety Engineering

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 Safety Engineering team partners across Anduril’s manufacturing, engineering, and operations organizations to ensure our production systems are safe to build, test, and sustain at scale. As an engineering discipline, we design safety into the way products are made, covering the equipment, fixtures, test stations, and work instructions on the factory floor, rather than inspecting for it after the fact. Our mandate spans the production lifecycle, from new equipment and line design through ramp and sustained operations. We apply formal risk assessment and the hierarchy of controls to identify hazards early and engineer them out, partnering closely with our Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) experts, controls and manufacturing engineers, and production leadership to keep our people safe while moving at the speed Anduril demands.

ABOUT THE JOB
We are seeking an experienced Manufacturing Safety Engineering leader to join our rapidly growing team in Costa Mesa, CA to stand up and scale manufacturing safety as an engineering discipline across Anduril. This is a build role: you will create the manufacturing-safety-engineering team, define the risk-assessment framework and processes that keep our production equipment, fixtures, test stations, and work instructions safe, and drive adoption of those practices across Anduril’s manufacturing sites. As a Manufacturing Safety leader, you will apply deep expertise in machine safety, formal risk assessment, and the hierarchy of controls to engineer hazards out of how our products are built, partnering closely with EHS, manufacturing and controls engineering, and production leadership. The ideal candidate is a hands‑on technical leader who can set strategy and standards while remaining the senior authority on the hardest hazard problems on the floor.
This role is based in Costa Mesa, CA, and supports Anduril’s manufacturing operations, including sites at Quonset Point, RI and Atlanta, GA; travel to production sites is expected.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• 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.

REQUIRED 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Familiarity with machine safety standards such as ISO 12100 (risk assessment and risk reduction), ISO 13849 (safety-related parts of control systems), and ANSI B11 (machine safety and safeguarding)
• M.S. Degree in an engineering discipline
• Professional safety or machinery-safety certification (CSP, CMSE)
• 12+ years of experience with at least 5 years in a leadership role, including standing up a safety-engineering function or discipline from an early stage
• Experience managing teams and programs across multiple manufacturing sites, and through periods of rapid growth (2x+ expansion)
• Track record of developing talent and promoting team members into senior and leadership roles
• Experience in high-rate or rapidly scaling aerospace, defense, or automotive manufacturing
• Executive-level communications, reporting, and roadmap presentation experience
• Active U.S. security clearance

US Salary Range

$166,000 - $220,000 USD

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:

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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