Senior Supervisor Manufacturing Operations, Core Tech

The Manufacturing Production team is responsible for a wide range of activities that are crucial to the manufacturing process including operating equipment, assembling products, performing quality control checks, and maintaining a safe and efficient work environment.

We are seeking a Senior Supervisor, Manufacturing Operations to join our Core Tech manufacturing team at Anduril. You will work on cutting-edge technology aimed at advancing the state-of-the-possible. The Senior Supervisor will be responsible for managing a team of highly talented technicians to produce a number of different products for strategic military and commercial customers.

This is a highly dynamic role that requires both frontline technical and people management skills.

- Manage technician staff in the production and delivery of Anduril products through acceptance testing and delivery

- Set priorities and direct daily operations to include timely issuing and completion of work orders to the production floor, clear blockers daily for the production team to achieve their goals

- Ensure all operators are following safety procedures and standard work tasks. Proactively identify and drive safety improvement opportunities

- Prioritize work activities for operators to achieve target on time delivery goals

- Be an active participant in 5S and continuous improvement activities

- Complete transactions in production systems (NetSuite / JIRA) on daily basis

- Provide weekly report out of production progress, blockers, risks, needs

- Lead daily communication with cross functional team such as engineering, technicians, supply chain, logistics, and quality as necessary

- Ability to work on the line and support new operator training as required

- Build a positive and collaborative team culture that promotes product knowledge, skills development, and X-training

- Show up every day with extreme urgency and enthusiasm to get the job done

- Execute on priorities and production plans provided by operation management

- Manage, coach, mentor and support up to 30 production associates on shift

- Execute and maintain standardized manufacturing instructions and control plans

- Support issue resolution including root cause investigation and corrective action tracking

- Ensure quality standards are being met throughout the entire production process and support no defects from leaving a station or team area

- Generate daily pass downs and quality reports for engineering and operations team

- 6+ years of experience managing or supervising in a high volume production environment

- Demonstrated knowledge and experience working in a manufacturing environment

- Strong understanding of production rate, critical path analysis, and key manufacturing fundamentals

- A full understanding of the product life cycle (NPI to scaled production), LEAN manufacturing principals, and change management (ECOs)

- Can interpret technical documentation (mechanical drawings, work instructions, building plans, equipment specs, electrical schematics, etc.)

- Willing to work on hardware hands on as needed by production

- Experience being hands-on and prefer to be on the production floor and have proven skills in both process and equipment troubleshooting, allowing you to easily adapt to constantly changing production environments

- Passion for employee development and enjoy the process of training and developing both new hires and veteran production staff

- Extremely reliable, organized and detail-oriented with excellent verbal & written communication skills

- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

- Associate's or Bachelor's degree in a technical field (engineering, business, or applied science.)

- Experience working with electrical and mechanical assembly and integration

- Experience in ramping low volume manufacturing to high rate