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Salary: USD 146,000 - 194,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Program Operations Manager to join its Maritime Division's Heavy Metal business line. This hybrid role serves as the operational right hand to the Program Manager for a new autonomous maritime platform, acting as connective tissue across Finance (EVMS), Stakeholder Integration, Supply Chain, Workforce Development, and Facilities.
You will balance program-facing discipline (running a large, complex program on cost and schedule against Earned Value Management System requirements) with division-level business operations (strategic initiatives, executive rhythm, planning cycles, and scalable execution patterns). You'll be equally comfortable in a manufacturing bay and in executive reviews.
Key responsibilities include:
- Serve as operational backbone for the Program Manager, coordinating across core areas of responsibility to enable program scaling and deliverable achievement
- Support Stakeholder Integration across demanding external environment (customers, prime partners, government, community stakeholders) and internal contributors (Manufacturing Technology and Digital teams)
- Translate procurement and vendor performance data into program-level risk pictures, surfacing long-lead exposure, sole-source concentrations, and supplier ramp risk
- Partner with Workforce Development on hiring, training, and skillset scaling for exponential program growth, converting workforce plans into integrated tracking systems
- Connect facility milestones, capital deployment, and production readiness so facility readiness and product build plans are integrated
- Lead strategic initiatives and special projects (operating-model design, executive-review preparation, diligence sprints on production, real estate, security, growth)
- Support corporate planning cycle, building and monitoring performance against goals, financial plans, and headcount plans
- Onboard new team members and establish internal operating cadence (all-hands, business reviews, division-wide events)
This is a foundational role for one of Anduril's fastest-growing divisions, standing up a world-class execution concept underpinned by digital-first production and advanced manufacturing technologies.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 3+ years of experience in program operations, consulting, corporate strategy, finance, defense/aerospace program management, or business analysis
- Strong problem-solving skills in complex, ambiguous, cross-functional environments with people-centric approach
- High ownership and low ego; strong outcome orientation with high humility; comfortable with unglamorous work of running large programs
- Thought partner mentality: translating operational problems into data problems and executing on them
- Both tactical and strategic: comfortable in details (yard, data) and at 30,000-foot level
- Fast learner who can move fluently between finance, supply chain, workforce, and construction
- Willing and able to be based in Washington, DC area 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:
- 5+ years of experience and Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Exposure to Earned Value Management (EVMS) as practitioner, auditor, or program leader
- Prior experience in shipbuilding, heavy manufacturing, aerospace, or large defense programs, especially with U.S. Navy or prime shipbuilder relationships
- Experience standing up operating cadence for fast-growing teams (battle rhythms, review structures, planning cycles, tracking systems)
- Comfort working across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and workforce functions simultaneously
