Production Scheduler

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril is fielding the next generation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) to tackle the extremely challenging industry demands of seabed exploration. Anduril has brought to the market a unique, ultra-long-range, full-ocean-depth platform, and a completely refreshed maritime vehicle and flexible manufacturing architecture that scales from "large" to "extra-large" vehicle sizes. Today, Anduril is executing on multi-million-dollar contracts while simultaneously performing Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) AUV operations.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a Production Scheduler to join our rapidly growing team in Quonset, RI who will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing the flow of products through the production process. Here you will work on cutting-edge technology aimed at advancing the state-of-the-possible in subsea robotics. The Production Scheduler is responsible for providing tactical scheduling and strategic long range planning expertise to our production teams and more! If you are someone who is a highly motivated team player who is willing to support a fast paced team environment and detail oriented self starter with minimal oversight then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Provide tactical scheduling and strategic long range planning expertise to our production teams
• Coordinate, review, plan and schedule inputs from the business and planning to create an integrated master schedule
• Works with the planning teams to ensure MRP is reflective of production
• Utilize Foundry and other applications to ensure work is scheduled and prioritized accurately and efficiently, and resources allocated appropriately
• Prepare daily work schedules, track work progress, update project critical path schedules, and advise leadership of needed adjustments to daily work activities
• Perform schedule baseline change control, collection and tracking performance, critical path analysis and variance analysis as required
• Ensure requisite production requirements are properly scheduled to facilitate an efficient production process
• Schedule production, operations planning, and engineering support to eliminate obstacles and deliver product on time
• Work closely with our Production Coordinators to identify and clear production blockers
• Coordinate support from other internal resources such as inspection, testing, engineering, and supply chain as needed to meet program deliverables
• Lead efforts to uncover root-cause and develop permanent resolution on issues found during product builds as required
• Identify and support improvement opportunities for product yield, quality, safety, cost and team efficiency
• Identify process automation opportunities and drive organizational efficiency improvements
• Organize and communicate the daily priorities to production coordinators, team leads and supervisors as required
• Provide daily visibility, weekly status, and monthly reviews on schedule performance
• Develop and analyze metrics that tie production to enterprise goals as required
• Lead the creation of scheduling tools and initiatives in support of Anduril’s overall scheduling maturation

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree or 3 years of manufacturing scheduling experience
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 2 years of scheduling experience with MS Project or similar scheduling software
• 4 years of practical experience with ERP/MRP systems in a production environment
• Familiarity with Lean Six Sigma and Kaizen
• Project management professional certification
• Must be available for all shifts, extended hours, and weekends as needed
• Must be able to lift 25 lbs unassisted