Infrastructure Strategy & Operations Associate

Anduril Industries•Costa Mesa, CA

About The Position

The Project Insights team at Anduril sits within the broader Design & Construction organization at Anduril. We are responsible for providing the critical support needed to bring our various cutting-edge factories, offices, and secure spaces to life. We do so by creating, maintaining, and executing key operational process, analytics, and tools. All the while, we are collaborating with a variety of stakeholders involved in shaping the built environment needed to enable Anduril’s mission (construction managers, architects, industrial engineers, real estate planners, finance analysts, and many more). But, first and foremost, we deeply listen to what our Division Leaders need. Whether it is autonomous submarines, robot fighter jets, or AR headsets, we stay close to our end users to ensure we’re fueling their success.

Requirements

You have 2+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, internal operations, or a business analyst role - or some other experience where you just had to figure out how to get stuff done
Proven interest in Design & Construction, Facilities Management, Corporate Real Estate, or related fields.
You lean into acknowledging your weaknesses and take the idea of feedback and growth seriously.
You are self-driven and relentlessly proactive. You don’t need someone to tell you to “move”. You just move. We’d rather have to tell you to slow down than to speed up.
You don’t wait on others to solve problems. You proactively step into the gap to offer solutions yourself.
You enjoy working at a place where no one minds if you leave early one day to go to an appointment or run an errand, but you also don’t mind responding to Slacks in the evening while you’re watching Netflix.
You have an appetite to build clear frameworks to structure problems.
You have strong analytical aptitude. You intuitively think about problems in terms of numbers and data-models, and you are able to quickly execute analyses in Excel.
You can elegantly and concisely communicate with executives. You leverage PowerPoint as your canvas to relay answers to senior management.
You are comfortable communicating broadly and having a lot of eyes on your work. This role can at-times require comms to large groups and senior leadership. This should excite you!
Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in related areas like infrastructure & capital projects consulting, real estate investment banking, construction management, and engineering design.

Responsibilities

Own operational projects end-to-end, from Definition, Solution, to Implementation. You will be handed ambiguous, messy problems with little prescription on how to solve them. If this does not excite you, this is not the role for you.
Construction Project Analyses: Execute scrappy analyses on short-timelines to get answers quickly, while also owning more scalable solutions that will make Anduril successful in the long term. You will work closely with Construction Project Managers (and other stakeholders) to dive into a project’s financials, evaluate and tweak a project’s design, and more.
Processes and Tooling: Power the innovation engine for our Design & Construction org. Manage design standards, build financial dashboards and reports, create approval flows, and anything else that needs to be done to make us better.
Site Readiness: You will own the “last mile” of launching factories, offices, and secure spaces. You will be on the ground driving our construction punchlists down to zero open issues, guaranteeing production teams have all the infrastructure they need, and ensuring facilities are properly integrated with teams like physical security, network engineering, and more.
Special Initiatives: You will occasionally tackle critical needs across Space Planning, Facilities Management, Corporate Real Estate, Industrial Engineering, and other fields as needed.
Prepare briefings to senior executives, providing general updates and also expediting decision making for large projects.
Project manage across many stakeholders. If you don’t like being the person leading meetings with large groups of people or managing large Slack channels to wrangle stakeholders towards a solution, this may not be the role for you.
Work across functions and learn Anduril’s business top-to-bottom. You will partner with departments like Production and Finance, and you will interact with leaders from across the company as as users of the space our team will build.
Work deeply within data and systems, becoming intimately familiar with industry-standard real estate and construction software, and then leverage the data from them to create insights and analytics (using tools like Excel, Palantir Foundry, etc.), equipping functional teams with these insights and tools to measure and improve their processes.

Benefits

Healthcare Benefits
US Roles: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
UK & AUS Roles: We cover full cost of medical insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
IE Roles: We offer an annual contribution toward your private health insurance for you and your dependents.
Additional Benefits
Income Protection: Anduril covers life and disability insurance for all employees.
Generous time off: Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December. Caregiver & Wellness Leave is available to care for family members, bond with a new baby, or address your own medical needs.
Family Planning & Parenting Support: Coverage for fertility treatments (e.g., IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carriers, along with resources to support you and your partner from planning to parenting.
Mental Health Resources: Access free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching. Additional work-life services, such as legal and financial support, are also available.
Professional Development: Annual reimbursement for professional development
Commuter Benefits: Company-funded commuter benefits based on your region.
Relocation Assistance: Available depending on role eligibility.
Retirement Savings Plan
US Roles: Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax (mega backdoor Roth) options.
UK & IE Roles: Pension plan with employer match.
AUS Roles: Superannuation plan.