Senior Industrial Engineer

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Manufacturing : Manufacturing Engineering : Industrial Engineering

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking a Senior Industrial Engineer to optimize manufacturing processes. The role involves developing simulation models for manufacturing processes, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring products are built and shipped on-time under stringent quality standards. Responsibilities include capturing processes in a virtual factory, creating feasible plans and schedules, maintaining an adaptive virtual factory, designing production lines, identifying bottlenecks, translating metrics into action, producing capacity plans, and collaborating on end-to-end operational improvements.

What you'd actually do

  1. Capture the current process including all physical constraints, business rules and detailed decision logic into a 3D simulation-based virtual factory to serve as process and operational knowledge base.
  2. Create feasible results, plans and schedules for shop floor, warehouse, factory & supply chain execution in all the relevant time ranges by ensuring that all scheduled operations are resource capacity, material, and timeline feasible.
  3. Maintain an adaptive, data generated and driven virtual factory to always retain a “current status” digital reference model for determining future performance of the factory/supply chain whenever required for different transformation projects and investment decisions.
  4. Own the design of new production lines and work station layouts, both for low rate and full-rate production, leveraging a data-driven approach
  5. Proactively identify high variation processes, imbalances and bottlenecks caused by line layout, equipment constraints, staffing shortages, and other production inputs; flag constraints with the appropriate owners across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Quality and drive to resolution

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years past experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
  • Experience with Technomatix “Plant Sim” simulation software or equivalent DES (Promodel, FlexSim, Simio, etc,) OR basic knowledge in object-oriented computer programming (example languages: Python, R, C++, Java, etc.) OR working with large data sets with SQL or No-SQL
  • Ability to read technical documentation such as facility drawings, assembly drawings, technical specifications and procedures for manufacturing processes for electronics, mechanical and electromechanical assembly, system tests, and/or structures work
  • Ability to work in ambiguity
  • Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering
  • Prior work designing and/or setting up new production lines or factories - from process mapping through to collaborating with infrastructure design partners and detailed work station design
  • Experience with Lean Manufacturing and/or Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma principles in action
  • Experience interacting with data via data visualization applications or SQL queries
  • 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
  • Prior experience with ERP, WMS and MES systems
  • Knowledge stochastic \ deterministic models when to apply them
  • Proficient in handling large data sets, including filtering, identifying trends, and graphical representation.
  • Candidate should have knowledge of design engineering and manufacturing engineering processes including: 3D CAD design/modeling of parts and assemblies, 3D factory layout, Manufacturing process planning of fabricated parts, and complex discrete assembly process, Manufacturing simulation of assembly processes, human ergonomics, and discrete event simulation, Strong manufacturing data analytics and statistical analysis background with proficiency in statistical process control

What the JD emphasized

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