Program Manager, Production Technology

About the Role

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company committed to transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The Manufacturing Team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defense hardware. In this position, you will own large parts of end-to-end production KPI tracking, enhancing transparency and generating actionable reports to support strategic and tactical decision-making. You will support increasing efficiencies throughout end-to-end processes, focusing on introducing scale and resiliency into the growing people and tools footprint.

Key Responsibilities

• Systems and Processes Improvement
• Develop a deep technical understanding of how manufacturing engineering enterprise systems (ERP, MRP, PLM) function.
• Leverage system feedback from all production pillars and formulate an extensive feature and system roadmap.
• Analyze best practices across cross-functional teams (Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Operations, Material Management & Procurement) and develop ways to standardize and implement end-to-end processes across all workstreams.
• Assist in the documentation and standardization of business procedures and reporting protocols across production.
• Be comfortable with the production life cycle and how parts flow through a factory both physically and systematically.
• Serve as the liaison between the Production Technology organization and the Corporate Technology organization.
• Translate the needs of production end-users into clear business requirements for the Corporate Technology (software platform team).
• Program Oversight and Support
• Support program managers and Production Technology leadership in the preparation and management of critical technical and business forums.
• Serve as the translator of technical problems to business-aligned solutions in a clear and concise manner.
• Provide structure to ambiguity and help drive production stakeholders towards decisions on tactical and strategic issues.
• Develop and execute strategies to drive business impact and outcomes.
• Data Analysis and Reporting
• Execute analyses on short timelines to get answers quickly, while also considering more scalable solutions.
• Analyze manufacturing data to identify trends, patterns, and areas for improvement in manufacturing processes.
• Facilitate data-driven decision-making by providing timely and accurate manufacturing information.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Be proactive, self-driven, and relentless when approaching problems.
• Be a collaborative partner, excited to learn from your team and aligned teams.
• Be comfortable in an extremely fast-paced environment and prepared to juggle multiple projects.
• Take charge on a solution if no other team member or project stakeholder is owning a decision or suggesting a path forward.
• Familiarity with MES, ERP, and PLM systems and how they interface with each other and with operations.
• Familiarity with Confluence/JIRA, SharePoint and Airtable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, data systems, business, or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment, with a focus on system issues, program support, or process improvement.
• Strong analytical aptitude and the ability to think about problems in terms of numbers and data-models.
• Extremely strong written and verbal communication abilities, with the capacity to present complex data clearly to diverse audiences.
• A reliable self-starter, highly organized, resourceful, with attention to detail.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.