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Anduril Industries seeks a Senior Fellow, Energetics Safety to serve as the company's foremost technical authority on the safe manufacture, handling, processing, integration, transportation, storage, shipment, and disposal of energetic materials. This is an enterprise-level subject matter expert role responsible for establishing technical vision, governance, and standards across all operations involving energetics while enabling strategic business objectives.
The Senior Fellow provides technical leadership across the entire lifecycle of energetic products, including propellant ingredients, solid rocket motors, energetic components, missile assembly, and safe integration of warheads into missile systems. Key responsibilities include:
• Serve as the company's highest-level technical authority on energetic safety, establishing enterprise technical strategy and governance across all business units and programs.
• Develop, approve, and maintain enterprise standards governing manufacture, processing, handling, transportation, storage, integration, shipment, and disposal of energetic materials.
• Serve as technical authority for design, expansion, modernization, and commissioning of facilities supporting energetic manufacturing and operations. Establish explosive safety design criteria for new facilities, production lines, magazines, storage areas, and integration facilities.
• Review and approve facility layouts, equipment installations, process modifications, and capital projects to ensure compliance with explosive safety and process safety requirements.
• Lead or provide technical oversight for Process Hazard Analyses (PHA), Process Hazard Reviews (PHR), Explosive Safety Site Plans (ESSP), Hazard Classification, Quantity-Distance (Q-D) analyses, and other explosive and process safety assessments.
• Establish enterprise requirements for explosive operating limits, magazine operations, facility siting, lightning protection, fire protection, blast mitigation, and personnel protection.
• Lead investigations of energetic incidents, near misses, and process anomalies, identifying root causes and ensuring effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Facilities Engineering, EHS, and the Lethality organization to integrate energetic safety into products, processes, and facilities.
• Mentor engineers, Chief Engineers, Fellows, and technical leaders while developing the next generation of energetic safety experts.
• Represent the company during customer reviews, government audits, regulatory inspections, DDESB reviews, and industry technical working groups.
Required: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Science, Safety Engineering, Explosives Engineering, or related technical discipline. Minimum 20 years of progressively responsible experience involving energetic materials, rocket propulsion, missile systems, explosive manufacturing, or defense production operations. Recognized industry expert in energetic safety with demonstrated expertise.
