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.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Anduril’s Maritime Division, one of Anduril’s fastest growing divisions, has assembled a diverse team of experts in software, robotics, artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and data analysis to create software and hardware solutions that radically evolve the capabilities of our customers. We are fielding the next generation of autonomous systems to tackle the extremely challenging industry demands of maritime operations. Anduril has brought to market a unique, ultra-long-range, full-ocean-depth underwater vessel platform and a completely refreshed maritime vehicle and flexible manufacturing architecture that scales from "small" to "extra-large" vehicle sizes. Today, Anduril is executing on billion-dollar contracts while simultaneously performing Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) AUV operations.
We are seeking to sustain our early successes with deep investment in an expanded product portfolio. These products, including Dive-XL, Dive-LD, Copperhead, Seabed Sentry, and other unannounced systems, will deliver a coherent system-of-systems, enabling the end-to-end conduct of a variety of autonomous missions in the maritime domain. If you are passionate about solving problems that have real impact and working on systems that directly contribute to achieving national strategic priorities, we want you to join Anduril’s Maritime Division and help us build the future of defense capability.
ABOUT THE JOB
We are seeking a Factory Manager to join our Division Operations ‘Joint Sites’ team in Quonset, RI. This role is a key division-level leadership position critical to running our multi-product, multi-Business Line maritime production facility — owning the shared services, systems, and infrastructure that every Business Line at the site depends on to build, test, and deliver product.
As the accountable leader for these functions across the facility, you will own the day-to-day site upkeep, general site operations, warehouse operations, technical manufacturing services, and non-recurring site projects — the common labor, infrastructure, and services that Business Line production systems leverage but do not own. You’ll be instrumental in standing up the operating model required to scale a multi-BL site into one of the largest and most mature production operations at Anduril, ensuring that Business Lines have a safe, efficient, reliable environment to hit aggressive delivery targets across platforms like Dive-XL, Dive-LD, and Copperhead, among others in the future.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Own Shared Services, Systems, and Infrastructure (3SI) across the entire facility, serving as the accountable leader for all of the core end-to-end operations that the site provides to Business Lines — inclusive of general site operations, fixed infrastructure and monuments, warehouse operations, technical manufacturing services, non-recurring site projects, and the associated technology stack. Act as the ultimate tie-breaker authority when utilization, maintenance, or resource allocation across the site needs to be adjudicated.
Lead the Quonset Factory Team as a Division-level shared site, managing site support roles across shipping & receiving, inventory management, facilities maintenance/repair/construction, EH&S, office and kitchen management, IT, security, and janitorial services — ensuring the site is safe, secure, sanitary, and operationally ready for employees, visitors, and assets.
Operate the facility as a multi-tenant site for Business Line “customers”, establishing and enforcing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that define response times, quality standards, and process execution between the Factory Team and the Production Systems it supports.
Build and lead centralized technician hiring, training, and development, in partnership with Talent Acquisition and Business Line production teams, to deliver a pipeline of technicians with the necessary skills for assignment to direct projects — including annual, quarterly, and monthly development and resourcing plan cadences.
Stand up centralized technical manufacturing services such as machine shop, pressure testing, and other shared technical capabilities, balancing utilization and investment across the site.
Lead non-recurring site projects and industrial engineering applied to the general facility — commissioning new equipment, evaluating facility flow, and executing facility expansions or reconfigurations — as well as supporting Business Lines on project-based IE work in support of their Production Systems.
Establish operating governance in collaboration with Business Line production leadership operating at the site via cross-functional committees (e.g., quarterly production planning, monthly facilities projects planning) to communicate plans, manage shared resources, and align activity across production and general site operations.
Partner with Production Finance on cost allocation between shared (Division/Corporate) and dedicated (Business Line) cost pools — capturing indirect labor, shared materials, general supplies, CapEx, and recurring OpEx for 3SI — and ensuring accurate, auditable P&L treatment across Business Line “tenants” of the site.
Serve as the site’s operational Swiss Army knife for critical site issues that require rapid execution and cross-functional problem-solving, working closely with Division Operations, Heads of Production, Production Leads, CorpTech, and corporate production to keep the factory running.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
7-10+ years of work experience in manufacturing operations, facilities, or site leadership, ideally with experience leading teams and/or managing a manufacturing site
Engineering or relevant technical background via prior work experience
You love solving complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems in a people-centric way, especially when balancing competing priorities across multiple internal customers.
You’re both high ownership and low ego, approaching everything with strong outcome orientation and high humility.
Comfortable with radical autonomy: you’ll receive a problem statement and expected outcome, then own everything in between.
You get energy from being a thought partner for others and it excites you to spend time translating operational problems into data problems, and to then going and executing on them.
You’re discerning and an incredibly fast learner with the ability to context-switch between different stakeholders and Business Lines who all depend on the site.
You’re tactical and don’t only sit at a 30,000 foot level — you’re willing to walk the floor, work with technicians, and get into the details of facilities, warehouse, and EH&S execution, but know that your ultimate accountability is in the overall leadership and end-to-end operation of the shared production facility
Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience operating within or consulting for hyper-growth technology companies, demonstrating an ability to navigate and build processes in rapidly scaling environments.
Demonstrated experience leading multi-disciplinary site teams across warehouse, facilities, EH&S, security, IT, and industrial engineering functions in a regulated or high-complexity manufacturing environment
Demonstrated experience standing up or operating multi-product, multi-Business Line production sites — rather than solely inheriting established processes in a highly mature organization
Prior experience owning warehouse operations and WMS implementations, EH&S programs, or facilities/CapEx project portfolios at a manufacturing site
A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education/work experience, ideally in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related technical discipline.
US Salary Range
$143,000 - $191,000 USD
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 Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
Benefits
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