Sr. Forward Deployed Production Lead

The role

You will diagnose and fix critical production bottlenecks across supply chain, manufacturing, and quality functions. You will work on the production floor, at supplier facilities, and in warehouses to deliver hardware on-time, at cost, and with quality.

What you will do

• Own problems end-to-end from root cause to implemented fix
• Spend significant time on production floors, at supplier facilities, and in stockrooms
• Attack cost and schedule to reduce unit cost, eliminate delays, improve yield, or increase throughput
• Fix systems including inventory management, asset tracking, MES, ERP, and MRP
• Execute rapid analyses using Excel, SQL, or Palantir Foundry
• Lead cross-functional efforts spanning Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Engineering, Finance, and Quality
• Provide structure to chaos using first-principles thinking and problem decomposition

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in manufacturing operations, production engineering, supply chain, management consulting, or another environment solving hard operational problems
• Experience on a factory floor
• Ability to be self-directed
• Comfortable with hardware, physical systems, and procurement, manufacturing, testing, and shipping
• Strong analytical skills with ability to build models in Excel and pull data from an ERP
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities
• 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. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.