Industrial Space Planner — R&D & Manufacturing Layouts

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking an analytical Industrial Space Planner to optimize the physical footprint across manufacturing and R&D environments in Southern California. You will design layouts, validate space requests, and work with IE and Facilities to ensure safe, scalable, and efficient facilities.

You will forecast space needs with division leads, challenge requests using utilization data, and help drive capacity and production readiness for future growth.

Qualifications

• Experience with lean principles, Six Sigma, and other production methodologies.
• Strong understanding of spatial layouts, workflow optimization, and infrastructure coordination.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• US work authorization required.

Responsibilities

• Partner with key stakeholders to forecast space demands and collaborate with Industrial Engineers on proposed layouts.
• Evaluate requests against utilization metrics and prioritize high-impact needs.
• Build capacity models and future-state scenarios to support ramp and R&D growth.
• Create facility master plans, block plans, and layouts for warehouse, lab, and production spaces using AutoCAD and planning tools.
• Coordinate with Facilities on power loads, HVAC, air, exhaust, networking, and EHS clearances.
• Analyze workflows, material flow, and adjacencies to optimize layouts and reduce bottlenecks.
• Maintain spatial data and coordinate decisions across Southern California facilities; support MAC team for relocations.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Facilities Planning, Operations Engineering, Architecture

Tools

CAD software

ArcGIS

Archibus

Power BI

JIRA

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking an analytical Industrial Space Planner to optimize the physical footprint across manufacturing and R&D environments in Southern California. You will design layouts, validate space requests, and work with IE and Facilities to ensure safe, scalable, and efficient facilities.

You will forecast space needs with division leads, challenge requests using utilization data, and help drive capacity and production readiness for future growth.