Senior Supplier Industrialization Engineer

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 Maritime is fielding the next generation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for the undersea, reconnaissance, and strike mission. Anduril has brought to the market a unique, ultra-long-range, full-ocean-depth platform, and a completely refreshed maritime vehicle and flexible manufacturing architecture that scales from "large" to "extra-large" vehicle sizes. Today, Anduril is executing on multi-million-dollar production contracts while simultaneously performing at-sea operations, and is scaling its supply base to move these vehicles from low-rate builds to sustained rate production.

The Supplier Industrialization Engineer (SIE) is a high-profile, cross-functional role that owns the manufacturing readiness and production performance of the external supply base for a specific Undersea, Reconnaissance & Strike business line. You will own the industrialization of the Dive-LD vehicle's supply chain - pressure vessels and structures, subsea connectors and harnessing, electronics and PCBAs, power systems, and sensors that make up the bulk of the BOM.

You will spend your time where the parts are actually made. You are accountable for knowing what each supplier's line can really produce, what it would take to double it, and where the process is going to break before it breaks. You will work in close coordination with internal engineering, quality, supply chain, and manufacturing teams, as well as directly with supplier leadership and their manufacturing engineers, to execute effective, creative, and smart supply chain strategies that achieve production goals.

• Own supplier industrialization end-to-end for an assigned URS product line, from NPI build through rate production, across the full multi-level vehicle BOM.
• Analyze and validate true supplier capacity through value stream mapping, takt and cycle time analysis, and constraint identification - and translate that into a defensible, bottoms-up statement of what each supplier can deliver against our production plan
• Partner directly with our suppliers' manufacturing and industrial engineering teams to optimize process flow, factory layout, work cell design, tooling, and material presentation to reduce cycle time, WIP, and touch labor
• Partner with Supplier Quality Engineering to drive PPAP, FAI (AS9102), control plans, PFMEA, and process qualification to closure ahead of production release
• Establish and drive process performance and statistical process control (SPC) reviews at supplier sites, and convert the data into corrective action
• Own bring-up of new production tooling, fixtures, and lines at supplier sites to ensure materials, processes, and tools are capable of meeting product performance, quality, and demand requirements
• Own capacity expansion readiness and production ramp-up at suppliers, including the CAPEX, tooling lead time, and labor plan required to hit each rate step
• Vet supplier production capability, facilities, equipment, and workforce for inclusion on the Approved Supplier List, and drive corrective action for suppliers that fall short
• Identify and drive product and process improvements at supplier sites to lower part cost, reduce supply risk, eliminate potential defects, and improve cycle time over the product lifecycle
• Support root cause task forces in tandem with Supply Chain, Quality, and the supplier, and be responsible for closing the loop on corrective and preventive actions at the supplier
• Partner with Product Sourcing Engineers, Global Strategic Sourcing, and Buyer/Planners so that sourcing decisions, cost models, and material plans reflect real supplier capability
• Partner with internal Manufacturing and Design Engineering to drive design-for-manufacturability feedback from the supply base back into…