Senior Manager, Manufacturing Safety Engineering

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center.

As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

Anduril’s Manufacturing Safety Engineering team partners across Anduril’s manufacturing, engineering, and operations organizations to ensure our production systems are safe to build, test, and sustain  an engineering discipline, we design safety into the way products are made, covering the equipment, fixtures, test stations, and work instructions on the factory floor, rather than inspecting for it after the fact. Our mandate spans the production lifecycle, from new equipment and line design through ramp and sustained operations.

We apply formal risk assessment and the hierarchy of controls to identify hazards early and engineer them out, partnering closely with our Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) experts, controls and manufacturing engineers, and production leadership to keep our people safe while moving at the speed Anduril demands.

We are seeking an experienced Manufacturing Safety Engineering leader to join our rapidly growing team in Costa Mesa, CA to stand up and scale manufacturing safety as an engineering discipline across Anduril. This is a build role: you will create the manufacturing-safety-engineering team, define the risk-assessment framework and processes that keep our production equipment, fixtures, test stations, and work instructions safe, and drive adoption of those practices across Anduril’s manufacturing sites.

As a Manufacturing Safety leader, you will apply deep expertise in machine safety, formal risk assessment, and the hierarchy of controls to engineer hazards out of how our products are built, partnering closely with EHS, manufacturing and controls engineering, and production leadership. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who can set strategy and standards while remaining the senior authority on the hardest hazard problems on the floor.

This role is based in Costa Mesa, CA, and supports Anduril’s manufacturing operations, including sites at Quonset Point, RI and Atlanta, GA; travel to production sites is expected.

• 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…