Strategy & Operations, Capital Projects

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Capital Operations team sits within the broader Design & Construction organization at Anduril. We are responsible for providing the critical support needed to bring our sites 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. This is the team’s Swiss-army-knife role. As our Strategy & Operations lead for Capital Projects, you’ll be the high-horsepower, variable resource we point at our most ambiguous and highest-stakes problems — from building the tools and analytics that run our organization, to embedding on our largest megaprojects to keep them moving.

Requirements

• 4+ 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 experience in Design & Construction, or the ability to ramp into the domain quickly and the passion to do so.
• Self-driven and relentlessly proactive.
• Proactively step into the gap to offer solutions yourself.
• Appetite to build clear frameworks to structure problems.
• Strong analytical aptitude.
• Intuitively think about problems in terms of numbers and data-models, and you are able to quickly execute analyses in Excel.
• Able to elegantly and concisely communicate with executives.
• Leverage PowerPoint as your canvas to relay answers to senior management.
• Comfortable communicating broadly and having a lot of eyes on your work.
• 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

• Embed alongside Anduril Construction Project Managers on our largest, cannot-fail megaprojects (advanced-manufacturing plants, energetics facilities, shipyards, and secure environments) to make sure scope is fully captured and that key decisions and updates reach executives clearly and quickly.
• Serve as connective tissue between Anduril business lines and Design & Construction.
• Maintain project velocity by leading recurring stakeholder meetings and set, track, and enforce hard deadlines on critical-path action items.
• Frame executive-level decisions by building the analyses that lay out the cost and timing tradeoffs behind core design and construction choices.
• Support early facility conceptualization (including cost-vs-revenue and breakeven models) and validate user readiness; locking operational requirements before design kicks off to prevent costly churn.
• Build financial dashboards and reports, create approval flows, collaborate on facility design standards, and anything else that needs to be done to make us better.
• Start scrappy — build the “V1” in Excel, test and iterate, then graduate the tools that prove out into industry software.
• 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 to measure and improve their processes.
• Own the “last mile” of launching factories, offices, and secure spaces.
• Partner with Construction Project Managers and Facilities Managers to drive construction punchlists down to zero open issues, guarantee Production teams have all the infrastructure they need, and ensure facilities are properly integrated with teams like physical security, network engineering, and more.
• Prepare crisp briefings to senior executives, providing general updates and expediting decisions on large projects.
• Project manage across many stakeholders.
• Take on high-stakes, executive-facing special projects, which can occasionally reach beyond strict D&C into Space Planning, Facilities Management, Corporate Real Estate, Industrial Engineering, and other fields as needed.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

What This Job Offers

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