Senior Maintenance Technician

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril’s Manufacturing Operations Team is seeking a Senior Maintenance Technician to join our team. The Manufacturing Maintenance team is responsible for helping scale production at Anduril and ensuring maximum equipment uptime, a world class preventative maintenance program, and supporting line commissioning of our growing production landscape.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Senior Maintenance Technician, you will be involved in every aspect of the asset lifecycle from commissioning to preventative maintenance, to emergency maintenance, and calibration. The right person for this role has developed experience with automated conveyance technologies, controls and vision systems, torque tools, and more across multiple platforms for a variety of product lines, groups, or businesses and integrated with both internal and external customers. If you are someone who wants to develop innovative, adaptive, flexible, creative approaches to equipment and maintenance and develop unified solutions for lots of stakeholders then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Support design, construction, commissioning, and start-up of production systems at new factory sites, ensuring successful delivery of the factory and products off the line.
• Provide technical feedback on product processes, materials, and technologies to mitigate risks and meet production performance and timelines in new facilities.
• Work hands-on to expedite project completion under extremely tight timelines.
• Collaborate with product design, manufacturing engineering, operations, facilities and construction, environmental safety & health, and finance to deliver creative and effective production system solutions.
• Ensure the operational availability of a wide array of manufacturing equipment by installing, maintaining, and repairing mechanical and electrical systems, torque tools, factory automation, and robotics.
• Partner with high-caliber controls and equipment engineering teams to improve equipment reliability and minimize or eliminate downtime.
• Act as first-responding problem solvers, managing machine breakdown recoveries to keep production running.
• This is a physically demanding job working in tight spaces, requiring walking and standing all day, as well as, bending, squatting, kneeling, climbing ladders, and lying on the ground intermittently throughout the day.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of experience setting up, integrating, and troubleshooting automated systems AND/OR torque tools to support processes technology development, manufacturing engineering, and/or production/process engineering
• Technology development experience in automated equipment, testing, and torque tools
• Ability to work hands-on in a manufacturing environment, next to operations and manufacturing engineering to understand and optimize the production system.
• Experience in a startup or fast paced environment with rapidly changing demands and unclear requirements
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior work with engineering partners and/or contractors to build, improve or modify automated production systems
• Process improvement, including justification of return on investment for process or operational changes
• Application of lean manufacturing and linear flow principles in a production environment
• Hands on experience with the leading automated torque tool makers and high volume coating, dispensing, and inspection