Special Projects, Production

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Costa Mesa (CA); Vor Ort; USD 147.000 - 196.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Anduril Industries is seeking a hands-on Operations leader for Special Projects in Production. You will own bottlenecks end-to-end, from root cause to fix, on the factory floor and with suppliers. Expect cross-functional work across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Planning, Quality, Test, and ERP/MES systems.

You will drive data-driven decisions, using Excel/SQL or Palantir Foundry, and translate ambiguity into actionable plans that accelerate throughput, reduce cost, and ensure on-time delivery.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing operations, production engineering, supply chain, management consulting, or similar environment involving hard operational problems.
• You have been on a factory floor and understand how things are built, where breakdowns occur.
• Bias toward action and fast-paced decision making.
• Self-directed to an extreme degree with proactive prioritization.
• Comfort with hardware, procurement, testing, and shipping processes.
• Strong analytical chops; ability to build data models and derive recommendations from ERP data.
• Relentless follow-through; ability to drive accountability across stakeholders.
• Comfort with high visibility and communication with senior leadership.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to export-controlled information access.

Aufgaben

• Own problems end-to-end, from root cause to implemented fix in production.
• Go to the floor, to suppliers, or to the warehouse; work on production floors and stockrooms.
• Attack cost and schedule relentlessly to improve throughput and on-time shipping.
• Fix the systems across inventory, MES, ERP, MRP; address garbage data and process issues.
• Drive decisions through data quickly using Excel, SQL, or Palantir Foundry.
• Wrangle stakeholders across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Engineering, Finance, Quality, and more.
• Provide structure to chaos with first-principles thinking and clear action plans.

Kenntnisse

Analytical chops

Excel

SQL

Palantir Foundry

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

Palantir Foundry

ERP

MES

MRP

Jobbeschreibung

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

Special Projects is Anduril’s production strike team. We are a small, elite group embedded directly in Production — Anduril’s largest, fastest-growing organization responsible for procuring, manufacturing, and delivering hardware to warfighters. We exist because scaling a hardware company at Anduril’s pace creates problems that can’t be solved from a conference room. They have to be solved on the floor, at the supplier, in the system — wherever the constraint actually lives.
Think of us as Anduril’s equivalent of a rapid-response taskforce: a handful of high-output operators deployed against the highest-priority, hardest problems in Production. We report into Production leadership and are handed the problems that are too messy, too cross-functional, or too urgent for the normal operating rhythm to absorb. Our mandate is simple: deliver hardware on-time, with quality, at cost — and remove whatever stands in the way of that.

ABOUT THE JOB

You will be deployed against the most critical bottlenecks in Production — whether that’s a supplier who can’t hit rate, a manufacturing line that’s bleeding yield, a system that’s generating bad data, or a process that’s adding weeks to delivery. You go where the problem is, you diagnose it, and you fix it. You work across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Planning, Quality, Test, and any other function that touches the critical path. You are equally comfortable in an ERP system and on a production floor.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own problems end-to-end, from root cause to implemented fix. You will be handed ambiguous, urgent, messy situations with zero prescription on how to solve them. You define the problem, build the solution, and drive it to completion. If the idea of figuring it out from scratch does not excite you, this is not the role.
• Go to the floor. Go to the supplier. Go to the warehouse. This role requires physical presence where hardware is being built, tested, stored, and shipped. You will spend significant time on production floors, at supplier facilities, and in stockrooms — not in conference rooms theorizing about what might be happening.
• Attack cost and schedule relentlessly. Everything we do ladders up to shipping hardware on-time and at cost. You will own projects that directly reduce unit cost, eliminate schedule delays, improve yield, or increase throughput. You measure your impact in dollars saved, days recovered, and units shipped.
• Fix the systems, not just the symptoms. Anduril is a hardware business, and tracking hardware is messy. You will work at the intersection of physical operations and software systems — inventory management, asset tracking, MES, ERP, MRP — to ensure our tools and data infrastructure can keep pace with our growth. When a system is broken or a process is generating garbage data, you fix it.
• Drive decisions through data, fast. You will execute rapid, scrappy analyses to get answers on short timelines — then build more scalable solutions where warranted. You are fluent in Excel, SQL, or tools like Palantir Foundry, and you can pull data from business systems to create the insights that drive action.
• Wrangle stakeholders and drive accountability. You will lead cross-functional efforts spanning Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Engineering, Finance, Quality, and more. You run the meetings, you own the action items, you follow up relentlessly. If you don’t like being the person who drives a room full of people toward a decision, this is not the role.
• Provide structure to chaos. Hardware startups at scale are messy. You bring first-principles thinking, clear frameworks, and rigorous problem decomposition to situations where everyone else is overwhelmed. You translate ambiguity into action.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing operations, production engineering, supply chain, management consulting, or another environment where you had to physically solve hard operational problems — not just analyze them from a distance.
• You have been on a factory floor. You understand how things are actually built, how supply chains actually work, and where things actually break down. Theoretical knowledge alone is not sufficient.
• You are fast. You bias toward action over analysis-paralysis. We’d rather pull you back than push you forward.
• You are self-directed to an extreme degree. You do not wait to be told what to do, what to prioritize, or how to solve a problem. You identify the highest-leverage thing you could be doing and you go do it.
• You are comfortable with hardware, physical systems, and the unglamorous details of how things get procured, manufactured, tested, and shipped.
• You have strong analytical chops. You think in numbers, data models, and root causes. You can build a model in Excel, pull data from an ERP, and turn it into a clear recommendation — quickly.
• You are relentless about follow-through. You don’t just identify problems — you fix them, verify the fix, and make sure they stay fixed.
• You are comfortable with high visibility. This role involves direct interaction with senior leadership and broad communication across the organization. Your work will be seen. That should motivate you, not intimidate you.
• You embrace feedback and own your weaknesses. The pace of this team means you will make mistakes. What matters is how fast you learn from them.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.

US Salary Range

$147,000 - $196,000 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:

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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