Sr. Forward Deployed Production Lead

Forward Deployed Production is Andurils production strike team. We are a small elite group embedded directly in Production Andurils largest fastest-growing organization responsible for procuring manufacturing and delivering hardware to warfighters. We exist because scaling a hardware company at Andurils pace creates problems that cant be solved from a conference room. They have to be solved on the floor at the supplier in the system wherever the constraint actually lives.

Think of us as Andurils equivalent of a rapid-response taskforce: a handful of high-output operators deployed against the highest-priority hardest problems in Production. We report into Production leadership and are handed the problems that are too messy too cross-functional or too urgent for the normal operating rhythm to absorb. Our mandate is simple: deliver hardware on-time with quality at cost and remove whatever stands in the way of that.

You will be deployed against the most critical bottlenecks in Production whether thats a supplier who cant hit rate a manufacturing line thats bleeding yield a system thats generating bad data or a process thats adding weeks to delivery. You go where the problem is you diagnose it and you fix it. You work across Supply Chain Manufacturing Planning Quality Test and any other function that touches the critical path. You are equally comfortable in an ERP system and on a production floor.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Own problems end-to-end from root cause to implemented fix. You will be handed ambiguous urgent messy situations with zero prescription on how to solve them. You define the problem build the solution and drive it to completion. If the idea of figuring it out from scratch does not excite you this is not the role.
• Go to the floor. Go to the supplier. Go to the warehouse. This role requires physical presence where hardware is being built tested stored and shipped. You will spend significant time on production floors at supplier facilities and in stockrooms not in conference rooms theorizing about what might be happening.
• Attack cost and schedule relentlessly. Everything we do ladders up to shipping hardware on-time and at cost. You will own projects that directly reduce unit cost eliminate schedule delays improve yield or increase throughput. You measure your impact in dollars saved days recovered and units shipped.
• Fix the systems not just the symptoms. Anduril is a hardware business and tracking hardware is messy. You will work at the intersection of physical operations and software systems inventory management asset tracking MES ERP MRP to ensure our tools and data infrastructure can keep pace with our growth. When a system is broken or a process is generating garbage data you fix it.
• Drive decisions through data fast. You will execute rapid scrappy analyses to get answers on short timelines then build more scalable solutions where warranted. You are fluent in Excel SQL or tools like Palantir Foundry and you can pull data from business systems to create the insights that drive action.
• Wrangle stakeholders and drive accountability. You will lead cross-functional efforts spanning Supply Chain Manufacturing Engineering Finance Quality and more. You run the meetings you own the action items you follow up relentlessly. If you dont like being the person who drives a room full of people toward a decision this is not the role.
• Provide structure to chaos. Hardware startups at scale are messy. You bring first-principles thinking clear frameworks and rigorous problem decomposition to situations where everyone else is overwhelmed. You translate ambiguity into action.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7 years of experience in manufacturing operations production engineering supply chain management consulting or another environment where you had to physically solve hard operational problems not just analyze them from a distance.
• You have been on a factory floor. You understand how things are actually built how supply chains actually work and where things actually break down. Theoretical knowledge alone is not sufficient.
• You are fast. You bias toward action over analysis-paralysis. Wed rather pull you back than push you forward.
• You are self-directed to an extreme degree. You do not wait to be told what to do what to prioritize or how to solve a problem. You identify the highest-leverage thing you could be doing and you go do it.
• You are comfortable with hardware physical systems and the unglamorous details of how things get procured manufactured tested and shipped.
• You have strong analytical chops. You think in numbers data models and root causes. You can build a model in Excel pull data from an ERP and turn it into a clear recommendation quickly.
• You are relentless about follow-through. You dont just identify problems you fix them verify the fix and make sure they stay fixed.
• You are comfortable with high visibility. This role involves direct interaction with senior leadership and broad communication across the organization. Your work will be seen. That should motivate you not intimidate you.
• You embrace feedback and own your weaknesses. The pace of this team means you will make mistakes. What matters is how fast you learn from them.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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