Production Program Manager, Space

• Partner with planning, production, manufacturing engineering, design engineering, supply chain, quality, launch operations and business line leadership on strategic priorities and delivery commitments.
• Own the integrated manufacturing and AIT schedule across multiple product lines: build it, maintain it as the schedule of record, and run the critical path and execution-risk analysis leadership decides from.
• Drive execution against that schedule week to week: convene the cross-functional cadence, hold owners to dates, surface slips early with quantified impact, and drive recovery plans rather than reporting variance after the fact.
• Define, deploy and monitor manufacturing KPIs from New Product Introduction through full rate production per Anduril's Manufacturing Development Process, and build the gate-readiness and critical-path reporting leadership acts on.
• Build and maintain the production cost model with Sourcing, Manufacturing Engineering and Finance. This model is the principal basis for strategic decisions on production design, operations and resource allocation.
• Serve as the manufacturing and AIT counterpart to the program managers and chief engineers, carrying delegated authority from the Director of Manufacturing to conduct manufacturing and AIT gates.
• Own manufacturing and AIT risk: maintain the risk register, quantify schedule and cost exposure, drive mitigation to closure, and make the trade between accepting risk and holding a gate explicit rather than implicit.
• Integrate the manufacturing engineering, test operations and MEP process steps into the program plan and capture that scope correctly within NRE so the work is funded rather than absorbed.
• Represent production up and out: contribute proposal and Basis of Estimate content for manufacturing and AIT scope, present at milestone reviews, and brief customers and business line leadership on execution status, gate readiness and risk.
• Engage principal vendors and partners alongside Sourcing to hold delivery commitments and contract compliance and integrate their milestones into the schedule as dependencies with real dates.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years in program, project or production management in aerospace, space, defense or another complex hardware industry. 
• 3+ years owning schedule and execution for a hardware program.
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance. 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance. 
• Has personally owned an integrated master schedule as the schedule of record — built the network, maintained it, ran critical path — with network-level fluency in Microsoft Project, Primavera P6 or Smartsheet: logic, float, resource loading and baselines.
• Experience managing a program through a New Product Introduction transition into rate production, with the readiness gates and reviews that go with it (PDR, CDR, MRR, TRR, PRR or equivalents).
• Has held a date or a gate against pressure from a peer organization and can describe how it was resolved. This role fails without it.
• Demonstrated risk and performance management on a hardware program: a maintained risk register with quantified exposure and mitigations driven to closure, plus KPIs that changed a decision where you can explain the mechanism.
• Has represented a production or program organization up and out: contributed proposal and Basis of Estimate content, and briefed customers or executive leadership on status, readiness and risk. Both the written and the in-person sides matter here.
• Has built or owned a production cost model — unit cost, labor content, material cost, NRE versus recurring — and used it to drive a decision on capacity, make/buy or resource allocation.
• Spacecraft or satellite program experience, including integration and test campaign scheduling and environmental test sequencing.
• Took a hardware program from single-digit annual builds into rate production of 100+ units per year.
• Earned value management or control account ownership, and experience capturing manufacturing scope correctly within NRE.
• Managed supplier and partner delivery commitments alongside Sourcing, including contract compliance and recovery on a late supplier.
• PMP, Agile, Lean or Six Sigma credentials, and working fluency in Jira, Confluence and Smartsheet.