Equipment Engineer

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Remote · Manufacturing : Heavy Metal - Production : Manufacturing Engineering

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking an Equipment and Tooling Design Engineer to design and develop next-generation equipment and tooling for manufacturing processes of maritime vehicles. This role involves creating factory layouts, digital twins of production environments, and collaborating with various teams to ensure efficient production. The ideal candidate has experience in designing manufacturing equipment and processes for large-scale production systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and create factory layouts and discreet designs incorporating next generation movement, holding and processing systems for supporting factory development and the future production system, using digital thread, computer aided design, simulation, and computer graphics to enable lean manufacturing principles, integrated metrology and visual management, including technologies, tools and processes to improve production flow while enhancing product performance, space allocation and resource requirements across programs and products.
  2. Question requirements in production system design, and facility creation to ensure the most cost- and schedule-effective solutions for our factories that meets the needs of our products.
  3. Support design, development, construction, commissioning and start-up of the production systems at new factory sites, ensuring successful delivery of the factory and products off the line.
  4. Provide support on product manufacturing processes, material flow and new technologies. Buy down risk to meet production performance and timelines in new facilities.
  5. Lead hands-on: set an example and expedite project completion

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience as a designer and technology developer of tools, tooling, equipment and processes for manufacturing technology development, simulation modeling, digital thread development and/or production/process engineering.
  • Technology development and implementation experience in facilities, equipment and tooling for large scale manufacturing.
  • Ability to work hands-on in a manufacturing environment, next to operations and manufacturing engineering to understand and optimize the production system.
  • Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

Nice to have

  • Prior work with architecture and infrastructure engineering partners and/or general contractors to build, improve or modify production facilities.
  • Process improvement, including justification of return on investment for process or operational changes.
  • Application of lean manufacturing and linear flow principles in a production environment.
  • Automation development for manufacturing processes in assembly, integration, test, and finishing operations.
  • Design and construction of facilities, tooling, fixturing and equipment for large scale production systems.

What the JD emphasized

  • Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.