Project Controls Lead (Design & Construction)

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Design & Construction team at Anduril delivers the factories labs offices and secure spaces that enable our teams to design build and deploy advanced defense technology. Our projects span high-performance manufacturing facilities mission-critical secure environments and collaborative workspaces giving our team exposure to a uniquely wide variety of technical and operational challenges. More than just delivering buildings we are (literally) rebuilding the American defense industrial base. Our work directly accelerates how quickly critical technology moves from concept to production and into the hands of the warfighter.

ABOUT THE JOB

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 Andurils 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 were fueling their success.

This role is a seasoned Project Controls Lead who will partner with construction project managers and make our entire Design & Construction organization successful over time.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Construction Financials:
  • Take a leading role in establishing our cost category structure / WBS to utilize across all construction projects.
  • Establish and implement best practices for cost forecasting (cash flow cost accruals etc.). Build templates and train Construction PMs as needed.
  • Collaborate with Corporate Finance for monthly quarterly and annual (portfolio-wide) capex reporting.
  • Own and evolve Andurils Historical Cost Database so that it is useful to (1) generate future cost estimates and (2) benchmark construction cost performance over time.
  • Support our budget approval process for projects of all sizes from megaprojects to small renovations in a complex multi-stakeholder environment. This requires partnership with our Strategic Real Estate team and our Head of Site Due Diligence.
  • Annual Capital Planning: Partner with Construction Managers and Strategic Real Estate to develop Andurils annual capital plan assembling the portfolio of proposed projects with preliminary cost estimates and high-level milestone schedules to support prioritization and funding decisions.
  • Serve as the primary bridge between the Design & Construction organization and FP&A translating project-level financial data into the formats cadences and narratives that corporate finance needs for forecasting variance analysis and board-level reporting.
• Governance & Process Development
  • Change Order Management: Oversee a vendor-supported PMO that follows a Quantity Surveyor (QS) approach to change order review ensuring material quantities and labor pricing are accurate and that Andurils capital dollars are spent responsibly. You wont be in the weeds of every change order but you will ensure the process runs with rigor that PMO staff are executing reviews consistently and that all change order decisions are properly documented and memorialized across the portfolio.
  • Design and implement project approval processes (scope cost schedule) including developing supporting documentation and training project management team on use. Advise on budget and schedule modification processes.
  • Establish clear role delineation and accountability frameworks at project initiation so that every project kicks off with shared understanding of who owns what across internal teams design consultants and contractors.
• Project Reporting:
  • Develop templatized financial reporting materials compatible with new governance and cost control measures including summary views for various audiences (Executives internal stakeholders others).
  • Create templates for both asynchronous executive communication and live presentation materials (PowerPoints Excels). Establish KPIs for individual projects and the Design & Construction team as a whole.
• Other:
  
  • Oversight of our Project Management Office (PMO) staff (external consultants) cultivating a well defined rigorous and transparent performance management rhythm.
  • Invoice Management: Serve as the central point of coordination for construction invoice review across the portfolio ensuring submittals are complete aligned to contract terms and approved budgets and processed through a consistent workflow before reaching Finance for payment. Establish and maintain the standards and cadence that Construction PMs follow when reviewing and approving invoices.
  • Project Management Information System (PMIS): Manage the implementation orchestration and Construction Project Manager adoption of our Project Management Information System supported by vendor PMO personnel.
  • Scheduling Support: While not an immediate focus this role will grow into providing scheduling support across the portfolio over time including the development of cost-loaded schedules for individual projects and closer integration between schedule and cost data.
  • Risk Management: Over time this role will expand to include the development of project and portfolio-level risk management practices building the frameworks registers and quantitative analysis capabilities that a maturing capital program requires.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in construction management or project controls.
• Excel proficiency: You can work quickly youre organized and you build models that others can easily and intuitively pick up.
• PowerPoint proficiency: You are a world-class storyteller and can distill complex data into simple slides that are digestible by executives.
• You can elegantly and concisely communicate with executives.
• Willingness to travel at 10% of the time (international travel included).
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in Corporate Construction Management or as an Owners Representative.
• Experience with advanced manufacturing-related projects
• Education: Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering Architecture Construction Management or a related field.

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

Benefits

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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