Senior Industrial Engineer, Labor StandardsActive$194K

Anduril Industries
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The opportunity

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,…

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 produces a consistent, defensible result.

  • Design and deploy standardized tools and formats for time study execution —: templates, data collection forms, analysis workbooks, and reporting formats — so that studies are conducted and documented consistently across all sites, products, and business lines.

  • Establish and maintain a centralized labor standards repository aligned with: existing MES / Tech systems — the single source of truth for all time studies, element-level standards, and labor content data — with governance for how studies are archived, versioned, searched, referenced, and challenged.

  • Own the integration between labor standards and MES: define the business process for how validated times are matched to work instruction details, loaded into the MES system, and consumed by production planning, scheduling, and earned-value tracking.

  • Define when and how time studies are triggered across the NPI maturity plan: (MDP) — from initial engineering estimates through pilot builds to validated production standards — establishing the cadence and criteria for when preliminary standards are set, when formal studies are conducted, and when standards are locked for rate production.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor's or advanced degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience standing up a centralized labor standards capability from scratch: — methodology selection, repository architecture, MES integration, governance, training, and organizational adoption.
  • Experience managing labor standards through NPI maturity stages: from engineering estimates through pilot validation to locked production standards — and through engineering change management (ECO/ECN) processes.
  • Prior work in high-mix, complex manufacturing or defense/aerospace: environments where product diversity and design iteration create unique challenges for standards maintenance.
  • Proficiency with data analytics and visualization tools (Python, SQL, Power: BI) for analyzing labor data, identifying trends, and reporting standards health across the organization.
  • Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, and Six Sigma: principles — particularly standard work, waste identification, and method improvement driven by time study data.
  • Knowledge of learning curve theory and its application to NPI labor: forecasting in low-volume, high-mix production environments.
  • Experience with video-based time study tools and software for motion analysis and element-level time capture.