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Salary: USD 146,000 - 194,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Production Control Specialist to join the Maritime Manufacturing Technology Team in Santa Ana, California. This hands-on role focuses on production scheduling and control for cutting-edge defense maritime hardware, including deployable surface, undersea, and sea-to-air vehicles.
You will own the integrated schedule model across multiple programs and shared resources, keeping it current as demand and capacity evolve. Your core responsibilities include building and maintaining comprehensive scheduling models, integrating frequent changes to routings, resources, capacity, and priorities, and sequencing jobs against finite capacity constraints. You will identify schedule conflicts, infeasible sequences, and capacity shortfalls with documented root causes, track schedule adherence and report variance, resequence work within authorized limits as conditions change, and maintain detailed shift handoff documentation.
This role is part of Anduril's advanced AI factory initiative, where you'll solve manufacturing problems at scale and support the rapid development and implementation of manufacturing technologies and processes for defense systems.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred, or equivalent experience (trade, shipyard, or military production experience equally qualifying)
- Production planning, scheduling, industrial engineering, or manufacturing operations background
- Critical chain, theory of constraints, or buffer management experience
- Finite capacity or constraint-based scheduling experience preferred
- Experience in low-volume, high-mix, or engineered-to-order environments
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Direct experience in maritime, naval, or aerospace defense with knowledge of NAVSEA or MIL-SPEC standards
- Experience with MES and ERP systems (JIRA, Siemens NX, Teamcenter PLM, Oracle, or equivalents)
- Aurora scheduling system experience
- Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies
- Technical foundation in mechanical assembly, electrical integration, heavy metal or composite fabrication, shipbuilding, or large vehicle production
