Senior Material Flow Engineer, Intelligence Systems

Anduril Intelligence Systems (AIS) is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and products for Intelligence Community (IC) customers. We work within the IC to understand their requirements, shape their concepts of operation, and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers’ most pressing national security requirements.

Anduril's Supply Chain team is seeking a Materials Flow Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Santa Ana, CA. As a Materials Flow Engineer, you will have responsibility for optimizing Anduril’s manufacturing operations for best-in-class quality, reliability, speed, and asset utilization, all while meeting critical customer deployment and internal development timelines. The Materials Flow Engineer will be instrumental in taking a data-driven approach to designing production lines and associated manufacturing processes to meet these objectives. Executing on this responsibility will entail active collaboration with other Anduril teams, including but not limited to Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, and Business Operations. The right person for this role can demonstrate past holistic ownership on solving operational challenges with creative solutions in a fast-paced, resource-limited environment. This person will be flexible to provide support wherever needed to ensure products are built and shipped under stringent quality standards. 

• Own the design of new production lines and workstation layouts, both for low rate and full-rate production, leveraging a data-driven approach using tools such as Value Stream Mapping/ Process Mapping/ 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 (cut-in dates for new designs), Supply Chain (signals on what to buy), Manufacturing (signals on being clear-to-build and what to build), and Growth (supply overview to drive customer contracts)
• Implement solutions that provide local benefit but also scale to global business
• Identify small inefficiencies that occur thousands of times a day as well as lead major projects with executive visibility

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in industrial, mechanical/aerospace/manufacturing engineering
• 5+ years of 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
• Ability to read technical documentation such as drawings and CAD data, understanding of a variety of hardware manufacturing processes for both electronics (PCBAs, sensor hardware, etc.) and structures, mechanical components, and electromechanical systems
• Ability to demonstrate a willingness to take on substantial responsibility across manufacturing, engineering, and operations functions with a bias towards speed and accuracy
• Strong technical ability to read technical documentation such as drawings and CAD data, understanding of a variety of hardware manufacturing processes for both electronics (PCBAs, sensor hardware, etc.) and structures, mechanical components, and electromechanical systems
• Ability to travel up to 45% of the time
• Ability to relocate, if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA

• Experience with department or factory design and set up - value stream mapping, flow lines, continuous flow, one piece flow, workstation design
• Ability to completely own a value chain from start to finish, measuring each step of the process, creating actionable tasks that culminated in a significant and sustainable business improvement
• Demonstrated ability of presenting project results to a cross functional team with clearly relating data to proposed next steps
• Prior experience with a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for production operations or Warehouse Management System (WMS)
• Prior knowledge of NetSuite, Oracle or a similar Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system
• Experience implementing Lean Manufacturing principles which drive manufacturing productivity
• Experience in delivering successful project by being hands on with the process. Including gemba walks, operational analysis, poka yoke solutions among others to allow teams to be successful without massive CAPEX
• Experience interacting with SQL databases - storage of information and building custom queries for tracking production and inventory-related metrics
• Experience with using Siemens Plant Simulation or Process Simulation software to model a production line and run production scenarios