# Program Operations, Maritime (Heavy Metal)

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Santa Ana, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Program Operations lead to join the Heavy Metal team. In this role, you will be the operational right hand to the Program Manager for a new platform and serve as the connective tissue across Finance, Stakeholder Integration, Supply Chain, Workforce Development, and Facilities.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as the operational backbone for the product Program Manager, coordinating across the program's core areas of responsibility.

- Support Stakeholder Integration across a demanding external environment and key internal contributors.

- Work alongside Supply Chain to translate procurement and vendor performance data into program-level risk pictures.

- Partner with Workforce Development on the hiring, training, and skillset scaling plan required to man a program that is growing at an exponential rate.

- Support Facilities as a program dependency.

- Lead strategic initiatives and special projects on behalf of the Program Manager and Heavy Metal leadership.

- Support the corporate planning cycle for the program.

- Onboard new team members and help stand up the internal operating cadence.

Requirements:

- 3+ years of experience in program operations, consulting, corporate strategy, finance, defense/aerospace program management, or general business analysis.

- Ability to solve complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems in a people-centric way.

- Strong outcome orientation, high humility, and comfort doing unglamorous work.

- Willingness to be based in Washington, D.C. with regular travel to Costa Mesa, CA and other Anduril sites.

- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Typically 5+ years of experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent education/work experience.

- Exposure to Earned Value Management (EVMS).

- Prior experience inside a shipbuilding, heavy-manufacturing, aerospace, or large defense program.

- Experience standing up an operating cadence for a fast-growing team or program.

- Comfort working across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and workforce functions simultaneously.

## Skills

### Required
- program operations
- consulting
- corporate strategy
- finance
- defense/aerospace program management
- general business analysis
- Earned Value Management (EVMS)
- project management

### Nice to have
- shipbuilding
- heavy-manufacturing
- aerospace
- large defense program
- operating cadence
- fast-growing team or program

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