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Industrial Engineering Lead, Maritime Production System Design

Anduril· Manufacturing : Heavy Metal - Production : Manufacturing Engineering
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Santa Ana, CA$166k - $220kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead Industrial Engineer on the Production Controls team responsible for the critical chain production model, integrated scheduling across programs, and flex capacity planning for Anduril's maritime AI factory.

Responsibilities

  • Plant and equipment layouts, material flow paths, and space allocation for a new maritime factory.
  • Build the production model: precedence networks, resource definitions, durations, and constraints.
  • Integrate frequent changes into the model and keep it matched to how work actually runs.
  • Size and manage buffers; track consumption and drive recovery.
  • Capacity plans and rate models: units per year under a given configuration, with the sensitivity analysis behind the number.
  • Sequencing of operations and work flow: how a build is broken into stations, what runs in parallel, where the unit sits and for how long.
  • Discrete-event simulation of the factory and the line, used as the primary way we validate capacity before the building exists.
  • Designing and optimizing the production system by integrating design, supply base, facilities, equipment, and personnel.
  • Feeding the precedence network that our dynamic scheduling system (LOKI) plans against.
  • Technical direction on production system design across VCS and Megalodon build processes: you set the method, others execute it.
  • Requirements to architecture/engineering firm and outside consultants, and review of what comes back.
  • Trade studies that close at design review: building configuration, bay allocation, automation degree, station count.
  • Flex to cover scheduling and production control gaps.

Qualifications

  • Industrial engineering, production planning, scheduling, or manufacturing operations background. No degree required. Apprenticeship, Navy Nuclear Power School, military experience, trade background, or self-taught modeling all count.
  • Critical chain, theory of constraints, or buffer management experience.
  • Low volume, high mix, or engineered-to-order environment.
  • Comfortable operating without direct supervision and making calls within defined limits.
  • Demonstrated capacity or rate modeling: you have built the model, defended the number, and been held to it.
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Skills

Required:Industrial engineering / production planningCritical chain / theory of constraints / buffer managementCapacity/rate modeling

Benefits

  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees (health, recovery, and more).
  • Equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers as part of total compensation.
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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