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Salary: USD 143,000 - 191,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Safety Engineer to join its rapidly growing Manufacturing Safety Engineering team in Huntsville, AL. This role is part of an evergreen pipeline; specific site and program assignments (including potential locations at Costa Mesa CA, Quonset Point RI, and Atlanta GA) are determined during the interview process based on business need and candidate background.
You will serve as the on-the-floor technical authority for manufacturing safety, applying formal risk assessment and the hierarchy of controls to production equipment, lift fixtures, test stations, and manufacturing work instructions. Your mandate spans the production lifecycle, from new equipment and line design through ramp and sustained operations. You will partner closely with Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) experts, controls and manufacturing engineers, and production leadership to keep people safe while maintaining Anduril's operational velocity.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading formal machine and task-based risk assessments on production equipment, fixtures, tooling, and processes, documenting hazards, risk ratings, required controls, and residual risk
- Reviewing manufacturing work instructions and training materials for safety adequacy; authoring Job Hazard Analyses (JHA) and embedding required controls, PPE, and safe-work steps
- Engineering and reviewing production equipment such as lift fixtures and material-handling aids in partnership with EHS, and supporting proof-load testing
- Assessing and designing safety into production test equipment
- Applying the hierarchy of controls and prevention-through-design principles to eliminate or reduce hazards at the equipment and line-design stage
- Defining functional-safety requirements for safety-related control systems and verifying their implementation
- Partnering with EHS to ensure engineering controls satisfy applicable OSHA 29 CFR 1910 general-industry requirements (machine guarding, lockout/tagout, electrical, PPE, materials handling)
- Supporting incident and near-miss investigations, root-cause analysis, corrective engineering actions, and management of change
Anduril's manufacturing safety engineering discipline designs safety into how products are made, rather than inspecting for it after the fact. The team operates at the intersection of production systems, engineering, and operations to ensure safe, scalable manufacturing.
REQUIREMENTS:
- B.S. Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or Safety Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline
- 7+ years of experience in manufacturing/machine safety, equipment or controls engineering, or a related discipline with demonstrated ownership of risk assessments
- Hands-on experience performing formal machine and task-based risk assessments and applying the hierarchy of controls
- Working knowledge of machine safeguarding and applicable OSHA 29 CFR 1910 general-industry requirements, including machine guarding and the control of hazardous energy (lockout/tagout)
- Experience developing Job Hazard Analyses (JHA) and translating risk-assessment findings into work instructions, controls, and training
- Experience designing safety into production and/or test equipment, partnering with EHS and electrical safety specialists
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence cross-functionally on the factory floor and with engineering teams
- Eligibility to pursue and maintain a U.S. security clearance, as required
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Familiarity with machine safety standards such as ISO 12100 (risk assessment and risk reduction), ISO 13849 (safety-related parts of control systems), and ANSI B11 (machine safety and safeguarding)
- M.S. Degree in an engineering discipline, or a professional safety credential (CSP, ASP) or machinery-safety credential (CMSE)
- Functional-safety experience determining Performance Level or SIL for safety-related control systems, and functional-safety certification (CMSE or TÜV FSEng)
- Experience with production test-equipment safety
- Experience in a high-rate or rapidly scaling manufacturing environment, ideally in aerospace, defense, automotive, or a comparable regulated industry
- Active U.S. security clearance
