VP Manufacturing Engineering

The role

The Vice President, Manufacturing Engineering holds executive accountability for defining, scaling, and optimizing manufacturing engineering across the Anduril enterprise. This role manages strategic development, operational roadmaps, and organizational leadership across all product lines and production sites.

What you will do

• Own the overarching manufacturing engineering strategy, operational roadmap, and resource budget.
• Develop and champion a multi-year scaling strategy to meet growth targets and customer demands.
• Strategically allocate resources across competing priorities.
• Establish and enforce the enterprise standard for production line operation, manufacturing systems usage, process design, and engineering practice.
• Own the roadmap for centralized capabilities to scale across product lines.
• Partner with and influence VPs and Heads of Production across all divisions.
• Drive consistency in how manufacturing engineering roles are defined, leveled, and performed.

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in manufacturing engineering, production operations, or industrial engineering within a hardware/physical-product environment.
• 5–7+ years at the executive level (VP or Senior Director) leading multi-team or multi-site organizations.
• Exceptional presentation, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing, Electrical, or Aerospace Engineering (or a related engineering/technical discipline).
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance.

Nice to have

• Master's degree or MBA
• Experience navigating high-mix/low-volume transitions into high-volume/mass delivery
• Background in fast-paced, high-accountability sectors (e.g., aerospace, defense, deep-tech, autonomous systems, high-growth industrial tech)

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Eligible to obtain and maintain a DoD 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.