Staff Engineer, Production Planning and Scheduling

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Santa Ana (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries, Inc. is standing up cutting edge maritime production and you will own the integrated schedule. This role drives the IMS, coordinates with engineering, material, manufacturing, and quality, and ensures on-time delivery through rigorous planning and analysis.

You will be on the floor with welders, machinists, and planners, mentoring junior staff and shaping the production control function. A U.S. Person with the ability to obtain a Secret clearance is required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in production planning, production control, or master scheduling in shipbuilding, aerospace, or heavy manufacturing.
• Program-level planning experience: demonstrated ability to build and manage integrated schedules for complex manufacturing or defense programs.
• You have built and maintained a real integrated schedule against a real build and held the critical path when material and labor both moved.
• Familiarity with controlled production environments (defense, aerospace, automotive, or similar).
• Fluency with a scheduling toolset (P6, MS Project, Open Plan, Aurora) and with an ERP/MES (Forge, Odoo, SAP, Solumina, Oracle).
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• No degree required. Apprenticeship, Navy Nuclear Power School, military experience, or a trade path to planning all count.

Responsibilities

• The integrated master plan and integrated master schedule for module production, horizontally and vertically integrated across engineering, material, manufacturing, and quality.
• Critical path and network logic: find the conflicts, resolve them, and tell the program what just moved and why.
• Shop load and dispatch — what gets worked today, against real material availability, qualified labor, and open nonconformances.
• Schedule adherence and earned value: measure plan against actual, then feed the variance back into the plan.
• Re-baselining when the program changes, with the risk analysis to support it.
• Working the floor. This is a Gemba job, not a spreadsheet job — you will be at 3100 Harbor with the welders, machinists, and planners.
• Standing up the production control function: the cadence, the artifacts, the metrics, and the interface to supply chain and quality.
• The scheduling data model our dynamic scheduling system (LOKI) consumes — you define what “a step” means here.
• Mentoring planners and schedulers as the team grows.

Skills

Production planning

Master scheduling

Program-level planning

Integrated schedule

Critical path management

Shop floor knowledge

Scheduling tool proficiency

Mentoring

Tools

P6

MS Project

Open Plan

Aurora

Forge ERP

Odoo

SAP

Solumina

Oracle

Job description

Staff Engineer, Production Planning and Scheduling

Santa Ana, California, United States

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril's Manufacturing Technology, Maritime Team is building the next generation of advanced AI-driven factories to manufacture large-scale autonomous maritime systems at unprecedented speed and scale. The Maritime Manufacturing Technology Team is responsible for rapidly developing and implementing manufacturing technologies and processes for cutting-edge defense hardware, including deployable static and moving surface, undersea and sea to air vehicles, and scaling these products in our new manufacturing facilities. Our industrialization approach combines advanced manufacturing methods, digital integration, and adaptive planning to compress development timelines while de-risking production decisions.

ABOUT THE JOB

Anduril is standing up cutting edge maritime production. You will own the schedule that runs it: one integrated schedule instead of twenty spreadsheets, and the daily call on what the floor builds next. You will be responsible for the overall standup and management of the production process schedule for a state of the art manufacturing facility. This role owns the integrated master schedule (IMS) and drives rate readiness through rigorous planning, analysis, and cross-functional coordination.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• The integrated master plan and integrated master schedule for module production, horizontally and vertically integrated across engineering, material, manufacturing, and quality.
• Critical path and network logic: find the conflicts, resolve them, and tell the program what just moved and why.
• Shop load and dispatch — what gets worked today, against real material availability, qualified labor, and open nonconformances.
• Schedule adherence and earned value: measure plan against actual, then feed the variance back into the plan.
• Re-baselining when the program changes, with the risk analysis to support it.
• Working the floor. This is a Gemba job, not a spreadsheet job — you will be at 3100 Harbor with the welders, machinists, and planners.
• Standing up the production control function: the cadence, the artifacts, the metrics, and the interface to supply chain and quality.
• The scheduling data model our dynamic scheduling system (LOKI) consumes — you define what “a step” means here.
• Mentoring planners and schedulers as the team grows.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years in production planning, production control, or master scheduling in shipbuilding, aerospace, or heavy manufacturing.
• Program-level planning experience: demonstrated ability to build and manage integrated schedules for complex manufacturing or defense programs.
• You have built and maintained a real integrated schedule against a real build and held the critical path when material and labor both moved.
• Familiarity with controlled production environments (defense, aerospace, automotive, or similar).
• Fluency with a scheduling toolset (P6, MS Project, Open Plan, Aurora) and with an ERP/MES (Forge, Odoo, SAP, Solumina, Oracle).
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• No degree required. Apprenticeship, Navy Nuclear Power School, military experience, or a trade path to planning all count.