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VP Production, Mission Systems

Anduril· Mission Systems
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Costa Mesa$252k - $382kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Executive leader responsible for strategic and operational oversight of production across Anduril's Mission Systems division, spanning Imaging, Battlespace Awareness, and Electronic Warfare. Owns production P&L, leads multi-site manufacturing, establishes operational excellence, and drives capacity, footprint, and workforce strategy to scale with company growth.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and provide strategic and operational leadership across multiple production facilities - ensuring consistency in quality, cost, and delivery performance across geographies
  • Lead and build the production capabilities of a portfolio of products, balancing investment, capacity, and talent allocation across product lines and production programs
  • Partner with R&D, sales, and engineering teams to lead new product introduction efforts across multiple emerging product lines, developing from scratch the production lines and processes necessary to meet our customers’ requirements
  • Drive division-level production strategy including facility footprint decisions, make-vs-buy analyses, capital deployment planning, and workforce sizing aligned to multi-year business forecasts. This person owns the division's production P&L
  • Establish the operational excellence framework and continuous improvement culture across the division, leveraging lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies to reduce costs, improve yields, and increase throughput
  • Establish and monitor KPIs across safety, quality, delivery, schedule, and cost to ensure performance targets are met across multiple production sites, including international expansions
  • Build and develop a high-performing production organization through talent development and a strong culture of accountability
  • Support capital planning, budgeting, and resource allocation for production functions across the division
  • Ensure compliance with all regulatory, environmental, health, and safety requirements
  • Lead capacity planning and footprint strategy, including evaluation of new facilities and/or manufacturing technologies
  • Serve as a member of the division's senior leadership team, contributing to division and corporate strategic planning; represent the production organization in executive, customer, and investor contexts as appropriate
  • Collaborate in a matrix environment with strong relationships and influence ability across multiple stakeholders across the business
  • Lead workforce and location strategy, including labor market analysis, site selection criteria, and workforce sizing, to support new line stand-ups and geographic expansion

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Operations Management, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred
  • 15+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience, with at least 7-10 years in a senior or executive role overseeing organizations of 500+ employees; experience in a high- or hyper-growth environment
  • Proven track record of leading large, complex manufacturing operations across multiple sites or locations
  • Experience managing simultaneous product ramps across multiple facilities and scaling international manufacturing operations required
  • Experience across all 5 pillars of production: production planning, supply chain, manufacturing engineering, operations, and quality
  • Demonstrated ability to set and scale an operational excellence framework across a division, with deep expertise in lean manufacturing and continuous improvement
  • Prior experience managing large budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars and capital programs
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Experience in regulated industries (e.g., defense, automotive, aerospace, medical devices) a plus
  • Direct P&L ownership in a production environment with demonstrated ability to manage financial performance at division scale
  • Executive presence and sophisticated communication skills; proven ability to influence C-suite stakeholders, represent the production function externally, and shape corporate-level strategy

Skills

Required:Strategic leadershipProduction planningLean manufacturing / continuous improvement

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (availability at little to no cost to employees)
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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