Senior Project Manager, Manufacturing Development

The role

The Senior Project Manager, Manufacturing Development will expand the Manufacturing Development Process (MDP) across multiple product lines. This role involves managing the rollout of MDP, tracking manufacturing risks, and acting as a liaison between Manufacturing Engineering and cross-functional partners.

What you will do

• Introduce the MDP framework to stakeholders and programs.
• Socialize the business process and resources with cross-functional teams.
• Lead Manufacturing Engineering teams through MDP rollout and implementation.
• Align manufacturing milestones with integrated program schedules.
• Communicate MDP importance to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Develop and deploy tailored communication strategies.
• Create and maintain data visualization dashboards to illustrate manufacturing risks.
• Facilitate manufacturing-driven product maturity checkpoints.
• Build strategic business cases to enable informed decision-making.
• Create tactical resources to execute MDP.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in project management, program management, organizational change, manufacturing engineering, or engineering transformation.
• 8+ years of experience overall in relevant domains.
• Direct hardware development experience with strong business acumen.
• Business process creation, development, rollout, and adoption experience.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and create lasting behavioral change.
• Understanding of the product lifecycle (design/development/production).
• Bias toward action with ability to filter noise from signal.
• Ability to execute operationally while also being able to step back and think strategically.
• Proven self-starter with extreme ownership of the how.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice to have

• Experience leading organizational change.
• Experience successfully taking new products and/or production systems from development to full-scale production.
• Deep knowledge of concurrent engineering, as well as both engineering and manufacturing phases of the product lifecycle.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

Before you apply

• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
• Consent to pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The company uses Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system, to power its family of systems.