Senior Maritime Manufacturing Engineering Leader

Anduril Industries; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Santa Ana, CA, is seeking a Manager of Manufacturing Engineering to lead and scale our manufacturing engineering and planning teams. You will define how we build complex maritime hardware, driving strategy from component fabrication through vehicle integration and testing.

You will mentor talent, ensure robust processes compliant with NAVSEA standards, and partner across functions to transition products from R&D to high-rate production on time and within budget.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of manufacturing engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a direct leadership or managerial capacity.
• Experience leading NPI teams and scaling multiple complex hardware products into high-rate production.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and task a team of manufacturing engineers and planners to achieve departmental and company goals.
• Define and execute the manufacturing roadmap and qualification strategies to rapidly transition complex maritime systems from R&D to full-rate production.
• Direct the creation of manufacturing plans, optimize routings in the MES (Forge), and oversee the translation of 2D/3D drawings into shop-floor work instructions.
• Own the MBOM and as-built configuration tracking from the EBOM.
• Lead DFM, DFA, and DFT producibility assessments, driving upstream collaboration with design engineering to optimize for cost, quality, and scalability.
• Lead root-cause analysis, statistical process validations, and yield optimization to resolve production discrepancies.
• Act as the primary technical interface across Design, Quality, Supply Chain, Tooling, and Operations to manage schedules, resources, and budgets.

Skills

Leadership

NPI experience

MES/PDM tools

First-principles problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing/Mechanical/Industrial Engineering

Master's degree in related field

Tools

ERP systems

SPC

Job description

Anduril Industries in Santa Ana, CA, is seeking a Manager of Manufacturing Engineering to lead and scale our manufacturing engineering and planning teams. You will define how we build complex maritime hardware, driving strategy from component fabrication through vehicle integration and testing.

You will mentor talent, ensure robust processes compliant with NAVSEA standards, and partner across functions to transition products from R&D to high-rate production on time and within budget.