Senior Industrial Engineer, Labor Standards

Andurils Manufacturing Design Team is seeking a Senior Industrial Engineer to own and scale our enterprise labor standards capability and system. The Manufacturing Team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defense hardware including static equipment moving ground equipment sensors undersea and flight vehicles and scaling these products across our production footprint including our new 5M sq ft manufacturing facility Arsenal-1.

Within Manufacturing Industrial Engineering delivers labor standards as an internal service: validated defensible time standards that quantify the true labor content (cycle time) of every manufacturing operation. Done right labor standards are the foundation that every other IE and production capability builds on line balancing capacity planning staffing models cost estimation and continuous improvement all depend on knowing how long work should take what good looks like. This role sets the standard for how time studies are conducted documented stored loaded into our MES and maintained through engineering changes across the company in close collaboration with Manufacturing Engineering Quality Program Management Supply Chain and Business Operations.

This is not a run a time study and move on role. We are looking for a senior engineer who can demonstrate holistic ownership of Andurils labor standards capability as a durable enterprise-wide system one that produces consistent defensible standards regardless of which IE conducts the study stores and archives those standards for future reference or challenge loads validated times into our MES matched to work instruction details and maintains accuracy through the full product lifecycle. The right person thrives in a fast-paced resource-limited environment is flexible to change and ambiguity and can act as the connective tissue among operational stakeholders to bring a production system forward.

The mandate is bigger than any single study. Anduril manufactures diverse products at varying maturity stages from early NPI prototypes through production ramp to steady-state rate and each stage demands a different approach to labor measurement. You will decide how time studies are scoped and triggered across the NPI maturity plan (MDP) how standards evolve as products mature from engineering builds to full-rate production and how changes propagate when an engineering change order (ECO) alters work content. The goal is a system where whats the labor content is this standard still valid and how did this ECO affect cycle time become queries against a maintained centralized system not one-off spreadsheets that go stale the week theyre delivered.

• Own Andurils enterprise labor standards capability as a long-lived foundational asset architecting it for consistency traceability and organizational adoption rather than ad-hoc studies.
• Define the enterprise standard for how time studies are conducted: methodology selection (stopwatch MODAPTS MTM video analysis work sampling) observation protocols sample sizing rating and leveling allowance factors and documentation requirements so that any IE across the organization produces a consistent defensible result.
• Design and deploy standardized tools and formats for time study execution templates data collection forms analysis workbooks and reporting formats so that studies are conducted and documented consistently across all sites products and business lines.
• Establish and maintain a centralized labor standards repository aligned with existing MES / Tech systems the single source of truth for all time studies element-level standards and labor content data with governance for how studies are archived versioned searched referenced and challenged.
• Own the integration between labor standards and MES: define the business process for how validated times are matched to work instruction details loaded into the MES system and consumed by production planning scheduling and earned-value tracking.
• Define when and how time studies are triggered across the NPI maturity plan (MDP) from initial engineering estimates through pilot builds to validated production standards establishing the cadence and criteria for when preliminary standards are set when formal studies are conducted and when standards are locked for rate production.
• Build the business process for maintaining labor standards through engineering change (ECO): how an ECO triggers a standards review how affected operations are identified how re-study or adjustment is scoped and how updated times flow back into the MES and downstream systems.
• Conduct and lead the highest-stakes time studies and train BL embedded IEs: new production line stand-ups rate-readiness validations cost reduction initiatives make-vs-buy analyses and labor content challenges from program management or finance.
• Proactively identify operations with high labor variation inconsistent standards or outdated studies; flag these with the appropriate owners and drive re-study or method improvement to resolution.
• Translate labor standards into action: connect validated times to line balancing staffing models capacity plans and cost estimates so that standards arent just measured but actively drive operational decisions.
• Drive the migration from scattered inconsistent study files and tribal knowledge to a governed centralized platform so the whole organization plans against one labor content source of truth instead of divergent local copies.
• Make standards accessible to non-specialists build the documentation dashboards and training that let production supervisors planners and program managers understand and trust the numbers.
• Establish how the team leverages AI tools to accelerate standards work video-based time study analysis automated element breakdowns and data extraction from work instructions with appropriate validation guardrails.
• Mentor other engineers on time study methodology and raise the bar for labor measurement discipline across the manufacturing organization.