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Senior Manager, Manufacturing Safety Engineering

Anduril· Quality Reliability & System Safety : Quality Engineering
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Costa Mesa, CA$166k - $220kFull-timePosted 6d ago

About the role

Senior Manufacturing Safety Engineering leader responsible for standing up and scaling the manufacturing-safety engineering discipline across Anduril’s production sites, establishing risk assessment frameworks, and driving safety practices across equipment, fixtures, test stations, and work instructions.

Responsibilities

  • Build, lead, and develop the Manufacturing Safety Engineering team, including hiring, leveling, mentoring, and performance management, as the discipline scales across Anduril.
  • Establish and standardize the manufacturing-safety framework: risk-assessment methodology, templates, risk-acceptance criteria, safety sign-off gates, and the management-of-change process, aligned to the business.
  • Grow the manufacturing-safety discipline across Anduril, driving adoption across production lines and sites and defining the standards of record, in partnership with Manufacturing, EHS, and product engineering.
  • Define and communicate the discipline’s vision, goals, roadmap, and operating model, and integrate manufacturing-safety practices across all stages of production development.
  • Own manufacturing-safety metrics, KPIs, and executive-level reporting; represent the discipline to leadership and to customer and defense-program stakeholders.
  • Manage resource allocation and capacity planning across concurrent programs and sites, and manage budget, tooling, and external partnerships (EHS, controls integrators, certification bodies).
  • Serve as the senior technical authority and final risk-acceptance escalation point for the highest-consequence manufacturing hazards.
  • Lead formal machine and task-based risk assessments on production equipment, fixtures, tooling, and processes, documenting hazards, risk ratings, required controls, and residual risk.
  • Review manufacturing work instructions and supporting training material for safety adequacy; author Job Hazard Analyses (JHA) and embed the required controls, PPE, and safe-work steps.
  • Engineer and review production equipment such as lift fixtures and material-handling aids in partnership with EHS, and support proof-load testing.
  • Assess and design safety into production test equipment.
  • Apply the hierarchy of controls and prevention-through-design principles to eliminate or reduce hazards at the equipment and line-design stage.
  • Define functional-safety requirements for safety-related control systems and verify their implementation.
  • Partner with EHS to ensure engineering controls satisfy applicable OSHA 29 CFR 1910 general-industry requirements (machine guarding, lockout/tagout, electrical, PPE, materials handling).
  • Support incident and near-miss investigations and root-cause analysis; drive corrective engineering actions and management of change.

Qualifications

  • B.S. Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or Safety Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline
  • 10+ years of experience in manufacturing/machine safety, equipment/controls engineering, or a related discipline, with at least 3 years in a leadership role
  • Proven track record building, scaling, and managing technical teams and establishing engineering processes or disciplines
  • Deep expertise in formal machine and task-based risk assessment and machine safeguarding, applied across equipment, fixtures, and processes
  • Strong working knowledge of applicable OSHA 29 CFR 1910 general-industry requirements (machine guarding, lockout/tagout, electrical, PPE, materials handling) as engineering controls
  • Experience partnering with EHS, manufacturing, and design organizations to embed safety into equipment and production processes
  • Strategic thinking with the ability to balance hands-on technical authority with organizational leadership responsibilities
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence cross-functionally at all levels
  • Eligibility to pursue and maintain a U.S. security clearance, as required

Skills

Required:Manufacturing Safety LeadershipFormal risk assessment

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees). For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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