Senior Industrial Engineer, Labor Standards
AI summary of the role
Senior Industrial Engineer owning Anduril's enterprise labor standards capability: define methodology, build centralized repository, integrate with MES, and maintain standards through NPI and ECOs across a 5M sq ft factory and diverse defense products.
What you’ll do
- Own Anduril's enterprise labor standards capability as a durable, foundational asset, architecting for consistency, traceability, and adoption.
- Define the enterprise standard for time study methodology, observation protocols, sample sizing, rating/leveling, allowances, and documentation.
- Design and deploy standardized tools and templates for time study execution across all sites and products.
- Establish and maintain a centralized labor standards repository aligned with MES/Tech systems, with governance for archiving, versioning, and challenge.
What you’ll bring
- 6+ years developing and maintaining labor standards in fast-paced manufacturing, with hands-on proficiency in multiple time study methodologies (stopwatch, MODAPTS, MTM, etc.).
- Deep understanding of time study fundamentals: element breakdown, performance rating/leveling, allowances (PFD), sample size, statistical defensibility.
- Experience designing and deploying standardized time study processes, tools, and templates organization-wide.
- Demonstrated experience integrating labor standards with MES, ERP, or production planning systems.
Technologies
MODAPTS · MTM · MES · ERP · Python · SQL · Power BI · Six Sigma · Lean Manufacturing · EVM
About Anduril
Builds autonomous defense systems (drones, subs, sensors) unified by Lattice OS, an AI command-and-control layer sold to US/allied militaries.
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Source and classification
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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
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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 [... source excerpt omitted ...] t 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 ch [... source excerpt omitted ...] lid?", 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 prod
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