VP Production, Connected Warfare

Anduril; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 252,000 - 382,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company driving advanced autonomy, AI, and sensor fusion. The Vice President, Production, Connected Warfare leads production across multiple facilities, overseeing planning, supply chain, manufacturing engineering, and operations to meet multi-year growth targets.

The role requires executive leadership, expertise in lean manufacturing, and proven P&L responsibility in regulated industries.

Qualifications

• Must have 15+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership across multiple sites.
• Experience in high-growth environments and overseeing 500+ employees.
• Strong ability to set and scale operational excellence and continuous improvement programs.
• Direct P&L ownership and large budget management experience.

Responsibilities

• Establish strategic and operational leadership across production facilities to ensure quality, cost, and delivery.
• Lead production capabilities across a portfolio of products and programs.
• Partner with R&D, sales, and engineering for new product introductions and scaling production lines.
• Drive capacity planning, facility footprint decisions, and workforce sizing.

Skills

Executive leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Lean manufacturing

P&L ownership

Regulated industries experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

MBA or advanced degree

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 ROLE

The Vice President, Production, Connected Warfare provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for all production activities within Anduril's Connected Warfare organization. Connected Warfare builds the compute, comms, and infrastructure products that modern defense programs rely on a business growing toward multi-billion-dollar scale, producing integrated hardware and software products at real volume. Encompassing production planning, supply chain, manufacturing engineering, and manufacturing operations, this role will be responsible for production across multiple business lines and multiple facilities. The VP orchestrates a portfolio of production programs, making resource allocation tradeoffs, and setting the Connected Warfare production strategy. This executive is responsible for driving operational excellence and production efficiency in the near term and building the production capabilities necessary to support Connected Warfare's and the company's long-term business objectives.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Establish and provide strategic and operational leadership across multiple production facilities - ensuring consistency in quality, cost, and delivery performance across geographies
• Lead and build the production capabilities of a portfolio of products, balancing investment, capacity, and talent allocation across product lines and production programs
• Partner with R&D, sales, and engineering teams to lead new product introduction efforts across multiple emerging product lines, developing from scratch the production lines and processes necessary to meet our customers’ requirements
• Drive division-level production strategy including facility footprint decisions, make-vs-buy analyses, capital deployment planning, and workforce sizing aligned to multi-year business forecasts.
• Establish the operational excellence framework and continuous improvement culture across the division, leveraging lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies to reduce costs, improve yields, and increase throughput
• Establish and monitor KPIs across safety, quality, delivery, schedule, and cost to ensure performance targets are met across multiple production sites, including international expansions
• Build and develop a high-performing production organization through talent development and a strong culture of accountability
• Support capital planning, budgeting, and resource allocation for production functions across the division
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory, environmental, health, and safety requirements
• Lead capacity planning and footprint strategy, including evaluation of new facilities and/or manufacturing technologies
• Serve as a member of the division's senior leadership team, contributing to division and corporate strategic planning; represent the production organization in executive, customer, and investor contexts as appropriate
• Collaborate in a matrix environment with strong relationships and influence ability across multiple stakeholders across the business
• Lead workforce and location strategy, including labor market analysis, site selection criteria, and workforce sizing, to support new line stand-ups and geographic expansion

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Operations Management, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred
• 15+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience, with at least 7-10 years in a senior or executive role overseeing organizations of 500+ employees; experience in a high- or hyper-growth environment
• Proven track record of leading large, complex manufacturing operations across multiple sites or locations
• Experience managing simultaneous product ramps across multiple facilities and scaling international manufacturing operations required
• Experience across all 5 pillars of production: production planning, supply chain, manufacturing engineering, operations, and quality
• Demonstrated ability to set and scale an operational excellence framework across a division, with deep expertise in lean manufacturing and continuous improvement
• Prior experience managing large budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars and capital programs
• Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Experience in regulated industries (e.g., defense, automotive, aerospace, medical devices) a plus
• Direct P&L ownership in a production environment with demonstrated ability to manage financial performance at division scale
• Executive presence and sophisticated communication skills; proven ability to influence C-suite stakeholders, represent the production function externally, and shape corporate-level strategy

US Salary Range

$252,000 - $382,000 USD

Benefits

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.