Head of Strategic Real Estate, AD&S

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

6d • $260,000 - $345,000

About The Position

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company developing advanced technologies for U.S. and allied military capabilities. Its Air Dominance and Strike Division develops next-generation collaborative combat aircraft, advanced effects, and the software powering autonomous weapons.

The Head of Strategic Real Estate, AD&S, builds and leads the division’s real estate team and manages its growing portfolio, including test sites, factories, laboratories, and efficient use of its nationwide footprint. The role sets the division’s real estate strategy, owns its multi-year space and investment plans, and enables execution across a footprint exceeding 1 million square feet. The position is the division’s ultimate owner for real estate and facilities, and works closely with corporate real estate, design and construction, industrial engineering, production, IT, and division leadership.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in real estate, facilities, or manufacturing infrastructure at a high-growth hardware company or similar fast-paced environment, including accountability for a multi-site footprint and its capital plan.
• Record of building and leading teams of planners, industrial engineers, and analysts, including hiring strong leads and establishing team operations.
• Excellent project management skills and a record of delivering large-scale, multi-stakeholder projects on time and on budget, including making funding decisions.
• Ability to solve complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems.
• Experience establishing industrial facilities, production lines, or factories from requirements gathering through execution.
• Fluency in technical documentation such as facility drawings; high proficiency in Excel; and deep knowledge of construction means and methods sufficient to challenge contractors and corporate partners on scope, schedule, and cost.
• Experience partnering with or serving as an internal customer of a corporate real estate organization, with executive presence to influence division and corporate leaders.
• Ability to travel up to 10% for site visits and stakeholder meetings.
• Must be eligible to hold a U.S. Top Secret clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with test sites, laboratories, or other specialized aerospace or defense facilities, including classified or secure space.
• Experience forecasting space needs for manufacturing, R&D, or other capital-intensive operations, beyond office space.
• Background in defense, aerospace, or another fast-growing hardware company.
• Experience across company lifecycle stages, including high double-digit to triple-digit annual growth phases.

Responsibilities

• Hire, coach, and establish expectations for a team covering space planning and operations, industrial planning, and strategic planning; define how the team works with corporate counterparts.
• Set the AD&S real estate strategy across offices, R&D laboratories, test sites, initial production, and full-rate production facilities, ensuring the division has appropriate space when needed.
• Own short- and long-term space allocation across AD&S teams and programs for offices, prototyping, and production; set priorities when demand exceeds supply and recommend tradeoffs to division leadership.
• Represent AD&S with corporate Space Planning and Strategic Real Estate on portfolio assignments and additions to the space portfolio.
• Establish standards for translating engineering and production needs into facility requirements for new builds, retrofits, and test sites, in partnership with Industrial Engineering and Production.
• Serve as the AD&S requirements owner for corporate Design & Construction on each project; manage projects to schedule and budget and lead facility launches across Engineering, Production, and IT.
• Own the multi-year AD&S real estate plan and its capital investment business case; defend the plan to Strategic Real Estate and division leadership and decide when and where to make long-term investments.
• Define measures of space utilization, including square feet per head, cost per seat, and production space relative to output; own the portfolio’s impact on the AD&S P&L and use findings to guide consolidation, densification, or expansion.
• Take on special projects across finance, real estate, and facilities.
• Act as the ultimate owner of real estate and facilities for the division.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of total compensation.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, described as a comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed