Business Operations Associate, Factory Systems

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own execution end to end. Take a defined hardware or software need and drive it through procurement, receipt, verification, and delivery to the production line with minimal oversight and clear accountability if…
• Make the dock-to-floor pipeline work. Personally handle receiving, staging, and reconciliation today; verify received matches ordered; coordinate deployment timing so parts never block a build.
• Own the back half of the lifecycle. Manage refresh, RMA, warranty, and vendor returns; keep e-waste and decommissioning compliant.
• Build the software-licensing function. Stand up the inventory, the cost-category model, the enterprise-licensing transition, renewals, and the compliance and accounting process.
• Keep systems honest. Ensure physical hardware and license status is accurately mirrored in our systems (e.g., ticketing, warehouse, and asset-management tools).
• Design the system, not just the fix. Identify, propose, and implement the standards, SOPs, and process improvements that reduce risk and scale with rapid growth rather than patching the symptom.
• Operate in ambiguity, at pace. Juggle multiple competing priorities across all three arenas without dropping the ball, and roll up your sleeves; no task is too small.

Job requirements

• A builder. You’ve stood up processes or functions from a blank page, not just run ones someone else designed. You’re comfortable going from 1 to 10 as you are from 10 to 100.
• Procurement, IT lifecycle, or logistics specialist. You bring real depth in at least one of procurement, asset/IT lifecycle, or logistics, enough to know what “good” looks like and not reinvent wheels.
• A generalist operator. You can move across functions and learn new domains fast. You’re either a generalist with direct experience in one of these areas, or a single-function specialist who desires to take on more…
• Hands-on. You’ll be a team of one at first. You’re willing to do the unglamorous work while designing the system that eliminates it.
• Calm in ambiguity, fast in execution. Anduril moves quickly. You handle competing priorities and incomplete information without losing the thread.
• Building from zero. Demonstrated track record of building operational processes or standing up a function from scratch. This is the core requirement, more than years spent in any one function.
• Operating experience. 5+ years across operations, business operations, procurement, supply chain, IT/OT asset management, or a comparable generalist operating role, ideally in a fast-paced hardware, manufacturing, or…
• One domain of depth. Real depth in at least one of: procurement/purchasing, asset/IT lifecycle management, or logistics.