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Anduril Industries seeks a Vice President of Production for its Connected Warfare division, a rapidly scaling business unit focused on compute, communications, and infrastructure products for modern defense programs. This executive role provides strategic leadership and operational oversight across all production activities, including production planning, supply chain, manufacturing engineering, and operations across multiple facilities and business lines.
Key responsibilities include establishing strategic and operational leadership across multiple production facilities to ensure consistency in quality, cost, and delivery; leading and building production capabilities for a portfolio of products while balancing investment, capacity, and talent allocation; partnering with R&D, sales, and engineering teams on new product introductions and production line development; driving division-level production strategy including facility footprint decisions, make-vs-buy analyses, capital deployment, and workforce sizing aligned to multi-year forecasts; owning the division's production P&L.
The VP will establish an operational excellence framework and continuous improvement culture leveraging lean manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies; establish and monitor KPIs across safety, quality, delivery, schedule, and cost across multiple production sites including international expansions; build and develop a high-performing production organization through talent development and accountability; support capital planning, budgeting, and resource allocation; ensure regulatory, environmental, health, and safety compliance; lead capacity planning and footprint strategy including evaluation of new facilities and manufacturing technologies; serve as a member of the division's senior leadership team contributing to strategic planning and representing production in executive, customer, and investor contexts; collaborate across the matrix with strong cross-functional relationships; and lead workforce and location strategy including labor market analysis, site selection, and workforce sizing for new line stand-ups and geographic expansion.
Required qualifications include 15+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience with at least 7-10 years in a senior or executive role overseeing 500+ employee organizations in high-growth environments; proven track record leading large, complex manufacturing operations across multiple sites; experience managing simultaneous product ramps across multiple facilities and scaling international manufacturing operations; expertise across all five pillars of production (planning, supply chain, engineering, operations, quality); demonstrated ability to set and scale operational excellence frameworks with deep lean manufacturing expertise; experience managing large budgets in the hundreds of millions and capital programs; excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills. Bachelor's degree in engineering or operations management required; MBA or advanced degree preferred. Defense, aerospace, automotive, or medical device industry experience is a plus.
