Industrial Engineer

$100,000 - $186,000/Yr

Anduril Industries - Costa Mesa, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Costa Mesa, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Anduril Industries is seeking an Industrial Engineer to join its Manufacturing team, which is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defense hardware, including static equipment, moving ground equipment, sensors, undersea, and flight vehicles. The Industrial Engineer will play a crucial role in optimizing manufacturing operations to achieve best-in-class quality, reliability, speed, and asset utilization while adhering to critical customer deployment and internal development timelines. This position requires a data-driven approach to designing production lines and associated manufacturing processes, necessitating active collaboration with various teams, including Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, and Business Operations. The ideal candidate will demonstrate holistic ownership in solving operational challenges with creative solutions in a fast-paced, resource-limited environment. Flexibility to provide support wherever needed is essential to ensure products are built and shipped under stringent quality standards. The role involves owning metrics, KPIs, and reporting associated with monitoring production line health and efficiency, such as cycle time, throughput rate, capacity, utilization, first pass yield, and all quality metrics. The Industrial Engineer will also be responsible for producing and maintaining tools and reports to communicate the health of manufacturing operations across products to Manufacturing leads and the organization. Additionally, the Industrial Engineer will own the design of new production lines and workstation layouts for both low-rate and full-rate production, leveraging a data-driven approach using tools such as Value Stream Mapping, Process Mapping, and Line Balancing techniques. Proactively identifying imbalances and bottlenecks caused by line layout, parts shortages, staffing shortages, and other production constraints is crucial, as is flagging these constraints with the appropriate owners across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Quality to drive resolution. The role also includes reporting and analyzing manufacturing health to ensure stakeholders have the necessary inputs for decision-making across various departments.

Responsibilities

• Own the metrics, KPIs, and reporting associated with monitoring production line health and efficiency, such as cycle time, throughput rate, capacity, utilization, first pass yield, and all Quality metrics.
• Produce and maintain tools and reports to communicate the health of manufacturing operations across products to Manufacturing leads and across the organization.
• Own the design of new production lines and workstation layouts for both low-rate and full-rate production, leveraging a data-driven approach using tools such as Value Stream Mapping, Process Mapping, and Line Balancing techniques.
• Proactively identify imbalances and bottlenecks caused by line layout, parts shortages, staffing shortages, and other production constraints; flag constraints with the appropriate owners across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Quality and drive to resolution.
• Own the reporting and analysis of manufacturing health and ensure that stakeholders have the inputs they need to make decisions across Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Growth.

Requirements

• 2+ years past experience in a high-rate manufacturing environment in either a production or supply chain-type role where complex mechanical and/or electrical assemblies were built with heavy data utilization.
• Experience of managing and organizing large capex budgets - Creation of a Standard Capex approval process.
• Factory design and set up - Value Stream mapping, Flow lines, continuous flow, one piece flow, workstation design.
• Material Flow - designing how material flows around a facility, pull systems, Kanban, Min/max calculations, Part presentation to operator, Tote bin packaging, lineside racking.
• Digital Systems - experience of using Siemens 'Plant Simulation', 'Process Simulation' software to model a production line and run production scenarios.
• Demonstrated ability to completely own a value chain from start to finish, coordinating among multiple different internal and external parties to achieve on-time deliveries under stringent quality standards.
• Prior knowledge and interaction with a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for production operations.
• Prior knowledge of NetSuite or a similar Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing principles/implementation.
• Subject matter expert in material flow systems.
• Strong technical ability to read technical documentation such as drawings and CAD data, understanding of a variety of hardware manufacturing processes for both electronics and structures.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience interacting with SQL databases - storage of information and building custom queries for tracking production and inventory-related metrics.
• Experience with production simulation software (Siemens/PlantSim/ProcessSim).
• Bachelor's degree or higher in industrial, mechanical/aerospace/manufacturing, electrical, or computer engineering.
• 4+ years past experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment in either a production or supply chain-type role where complex mechanical and/or electrical assemblies were built.

Benefits

• Platinum Healthcare Benefits: 100% covered for employees and 90% for dependents.
• Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered by Anduril.
• Generous company holiday calendar including a holiday hiatus in December, and highly competitive PTO plans.
• 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave.
• Family Planning & Parenting Support including fertility, adoption, and gestational carrier coverage.
• Mental Health Resources including free therapy and life coaching.
• Professional development stipend available to all employees.
• Daily Meals and Provisions including breakfast, lunch, and stocked micro-kitchens.
• Company-funded commuter benefits based on region.
• Relocation assistance depending on role eligibility.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with traditional and Roth options.