Senior Industrial Engineer, Labor Standards

Job description

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 Manufacturing Design Team is seeking a Senior Industrial Engineer to own and scale our enterprise labor standards capability and system. The Manufacturing Team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defense hardware — including static equipment, moving ground equipment, sensors, undersea, and flight vehicles — and scaling these products across our production footprint, including our new 5M sq ft manufacturing facility, Arsenal-1. Within Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering delivers labor standards as an internal service: validated, defensible time standards that quantify the true labor content (cycle time) of every manufacturing operation. Done right, labor standards are the foundation that every other IE and production capability builds on — line balancing, capacity planning, staffing models, cost estimation, and continuous improvement all depend on knowing how long work should take = what good looks like. This role sets the standard for how time studies are conducted, documented, stored, loaded into our MES, and maintained through engineering changes across the company, in close collaboration with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Program Management, Supply Chain, and Business Operations. ABOUT THE ROLE This is not a "run a time study and move on" role. We are looking for a senior engineer who can demonstrate holistic ownership of Anduril's labor standards capability as a durable, enterprise-wide system — one that produces consistent, defensible standards regardless of which IE conducts the study, stores and archives those standards for future reference or challenge, loads validated times into our MES matched to work instruction details, and maintains accuracy through the full product lifecycle. The right person thrives in a fast-paced, resource-limited environment, is flexible to change and ambiguity, and can act as the connective tissue among operational stakeholders to bring a production system forward. The mandate is bigger than any single study. Anduril manufactures diverse products at varying maturity stages — from early NPI prototypes through production ramp to steady-state rate — and each stage demands a different approach to labor measurement. You will decide how time studies are scoped and triggered across the NPI maturity plan (MDP), how standards evolve as products mature from engineering builds to full-rate production, and how changes propagate when an engineering change order (ECO) alters work content. The goal is a system where "what's the labor content?", "is this standard still valid?", and "how did this ECO affect cycle time?" become queries against a maintained, centralized system — not one-off spreadsheets that go stale the week they're delivered. WHAT YOU'LL DO • Own Anduril's enterprise labor standards capability as a long-lived, foundational asset — architecting it for consistency, traceability, and organizational adoption rather than ad-hoc studies. • Define the enterprise standard for how time studies are conducted: methodology selection (stopwatch, MODAPTS, MTM, video analysis, work sampling), observation protocols, sample sizing, rating and leveling, allowance factors, and documentation requirements — so that any IE across the organization produces a consistent, defensible result. • Design and deploy standardized tools and formats for time study execution — templates, data collection forms, analysis workbooks, and reporting formats — so that studies are conducted and documented consistently across all sites, products, and business lines. • Establish and maintain a centralized labor standards repository aligned with existing MES / Tech systems — the single source of truth for all time studies, element-level standards, and labor content data — with governance for how studies are archived, versioned, searched, referenced, and challenged. • Own the integration between labor standards and MES: define the business process for how validated times are matched to work instruction details, loaded into the MES system, and consumed by production planning, scheduling, and earned-value tracking. • Define when and how time studies are triggered across the NPI maturity plan (MDP) — from initial engineering estimates through pilot builds to validated production standards — establishing the cadence and criteria for when preliminary standards are set, when formal studies are conducted, and when standards are locked for rate production. • Build the business process for maintaining labor standards through engineering change (ECO): how an ECO triggers a standards review, how affected operations are identified, how re-study or adjustment is scoped, and how updated times flow back into the MES and downstream systems. • Conduct and lead the highest-stakes time studies and train BL embedded IEs: new production line stand-ups, rate-readiness validations, cost reduction initiatives, make-vs-buy analyses, and labor content challenges from program management or finance. • Proactively identify operations with high labor variation, inconsistent standards, or outdated studies; flag these with the appropriate owners and drive re-study or method improvement to resolution. • Translate labor standards into action: connect validated ti