VP Production, Frontier Systems

ABOUT THE ROLE
The Vice President Production Anduril Frontier Systems provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for all production activities within Andurils Frontier Systems (AFS) organization. AFS is structured as several business lines across space intelligence and air missile and ground defense. AFS products run on Lattice OS Andurils AI-powered command and control operating system. Encompassing production planning supply chain manufacturing engineering and manufacturing operations this role will be responsible for production across a multi-site footprint with facilities spanning Georgia Mississippi Rhode Island Massachusetts and Ohio. The VP orchestrates a portfolio of production programs across these business lines and facilities making resource allocation tradeoffs setting the AFS production strategy and owning AFSs production P&L. This executive is responsible for driving operational excellence and production efficiency in the near term and building the production capabilities necessary to support AFSs and the companys long-term business objectives.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Establish and provide strategic and operational leadership across multiple production facilities - ensuring consistency in quality cost and delivery performance across geographies
• Lead and build the production capabilities of a portfolio of products balancing investment capacity and talent allocation across product lines and production programs
• Partner with R&D sales and engineering teams to lead new product introduction efforts across multiple emerging product lines developing from scratch the production lines and processes necessary to meet our customers requirements
• Drive division-level production strategy including facility footprint decisions make-vs-buy analyses capital deployment planning and workforce sizing aligned to multi-year business forecasts. This person owns the divisions production P&L
• Establish the operational excellence framework and continuous improvement culture across the division leveraging lean manufacturing Six Sigma or similar methodologies to reduce costs improve yields and increase throughput
• Establish and monitor KPIs across safety quality delivery schedule and cost to ensure performance targets are met across multiple production sites including international expansions
• Build and develop a high-performing production organization through talent development and a strong culture of accountability
• Support capital planning budgeting and resource allocation for production functions across the division
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory environmental health and safety requirements
• Lead capacity planning and footprint strategy including evaluation of new facilities and/or manufacturing technologies
• Serve as a member of the divisions senior leadership team contributing to division and corporate strategic planning; represent the production organization in executive customer and investor contexts as appropriate
• Collaborate in a matrix environment with strong relationships and influence ability across multiple stakeholders across the business
• Lead workforce and location strategy including labor market analysis site selection criteria and workforce sizing to support new line stand-ups and geographic expansion

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in engineering Operations Management or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred
• 15 years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience with at least 7-10 years in a senior or executive role overseeing organizations of 500 employees; experience in a high- or hyper-growth environment
• Proven track record of leading large complex manufacturing operations across multiple sites or locations
• Experience managing simultaneous product ramps across multiple facilities and scaling international manufacturing operations required
• Experience across all 5 pillars of production: production planning supply chain manufacturing engineering operations and quality
• Demonstrated ability to set and scale an operational excellence framework across a division with deep expertise in lean manufacturing and continuous improvement
• Prior experience managing large budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars and capital programs
• Excellent leadership communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Experience in regulated industries (e.g. defense automotive aerospace medical devices) a plus
• Direct P&L ownership in a production environment with demonstrated ability to manage financial performance at division scale
• Executive presence and sophisticated communication skills; proven ability to influence C-suite stakeholders represent the production function externally and shape corporate-level strategy

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

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