Industrial Space Planner

About the Role

Anduril Industries is seeking a highly analytical and collaborative Industrial Space Planner to design, optimize, and scale the company's physical footprint. This role bridges the gap between engineering requirements and physical facility solutions across manufacturing and dynamic R&D/prototyping environments. The Industrial Space Planner will partner directly with Division Leads to understand and forecast space needs, and collaborate closely with Industrial Engineers (IEs) to design and validate optimized layouts. This role critically analyzes, challenges, and validates space requests, ensuring manufacturing, R&D laboratories, and production environments are optimized for efficiency, safety, flexibility, and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with key stakeholders to capture and forecast team space demands, and collaborate with Industrial Engineers (IEs) on proposed space layouts.
• Evaluate incoming space requests, prioritize high-impact needs, and critically challenge and validate requests against utilization metrics.
• Build capacity models, evaluate production/laboratory constraints, and develop future-state growth scenarios to support manufacturing ramp and R&D pipeline growth.
• Create facility master plans, block plans, and equipment layouts/test fits for warehouse, lab, and production spaces using AutoCAD and other planning tools.
• Partner with Facilities to assess, plan, and validate infrastructure requirements including power loads, HVAC, compressed air, process exhaust, networking, and EHS clearances.
• Analyze production/R&D workflows, material flow, lean principles, and physical adjacencies to optimize layout designs and eliminate operational bottlenecks.
• Maintain accurate spatial data and coordinate space planning decisions across Southern California facilities.
• Collaborate with the Moves, Adds, and Change (MAC) team for seamless implementation, relocation strategies, and change tracking.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Previous experience in an industrial, manufacturing, supply chain or production environment.
• Proficiency in CAD software, ArcGIS, Archibus, Power BI, JIRA, and/or similar space planning software.
• Experience with lean, six sigma, and other related production principles.
• Strong understanding of spatial layout principles, workflow optimization, and infrastructure coordination.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple requests and prioritize effectively under pressure.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Qualifications (Preferred)

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Facilities Planning, Operations Engineering, Architecture, or a related technical discipline.
• Direct experience with factory planning, lab/facility master planning, or R&D system design.
• Experience supporting aerospace, defense, high-tech manufacturing, robotics, or advanced hardware R&D environments.
• Deep familiarity with utility planning, EHS requirements, and equipment installation/rigging processes.