Production Program Manager, Space

What you'd do

• Partner with planning, production, manufacturing engineering, design engineering, supply chain, quality, launch operations and business line leadership on strategic priorities and delivery commitments.
• Own the integrated manufacturing and AIT schedule across multiple product lines: build it, maintain it as the schedule of record, and run the critical path and execution-risk analysis leadership decides from.
• Drive execution against that schedule week to week: convene the cross-functional cadence, hold owners to dates, surface slips early with quantified impact, and drive recovery plans rather than reporting variance after the fact.
• Define, deploy and monitor manufacturing KPIs from New Product Introduction through full rate production per Anduril's Manufacturing Development Process, and build the gate-readiness and critical-path reporting leadership acts on.
• Build and maintain the production cost model with Sourcing, Manufacturing Engineering and Finance. This model is the principal basis for strategic decisions on production design, operations and resource allocation.
• Serve as the manufacturing and AIT counterpart to the program managers and chief engineers, carrying delegated authority from the Director of Manufacturing to conduct manufacturing and AIT gates.
• Own manufacturing and AIT risk: maintain the risk register, quantify schedule and cost exposure, drive mitigation to closure, and make the trade between accepting risk and holding a gate explicit rather than implicit.
• Integrate the manufacturing engineering, test operations and MEP process steps into the program plan and capture that scope correctly within NRE so the work is funded rather than absorbed.
• Represent production up and out: contribute proposal and Basis of Estimate content for manufacturing and AIT scope, present at milestone reviews, and brief customers and business line leadership on execution status, gate readiness and risk.
• Engage principal vendors and partners alongside Sourcing to hold delivery commitments and contract compliance and integrate their milestones into the schedule as dependencies with real dates.

What they want

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years in program, project or production management in aerospace, space, defense or another complex hardware industry.
• 3+ years owning schedule and execution for a hardware program.
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

About Anduril · Manufacturing : Manufacturing Engineering : Manufacturing Engineering

Anduril’s Space Manufacturing team is seeking a Production Program Manager to join our team. The Space Manufacturing team is responsible for the assembly, integration and test of complete space vehicles across multiple concurrent product lines, and for the manufacturing engineering, test operations and tooling that make those builds repeatable at rate.