Staff Engineering Laboratory Manager

The role

You will own the daily operation, readiness, security, and continuous improvement of classified and unclassified engineering laboratories. You will manage laboratory space, equipment, and resources to support the development and testing of aerospace and defense systems.

What you will do

• Own the daily operation, readiness, security, and continuous improvement of engineering laboratories
• Allocate laboratory space, equipment, storage, and shared resources
• Establish and maintain laboratory operating procedures and safety requirements
• Manage procurement, installation, maintenance, and calibration of laboratory equipment
• Maintain accurate asset, calibration, maintenance, and laboratory-readiness records
• Coordinate with facilities personnel and outside contractors on repairs and infrastructure
• Coordinate with IT to install and maintain laboratory networking and digital infrastructure
• Partner with security, information-assurance, and safety personnel to manage controlled access and inspections
• Manage laboratory budgets, equipment purchases, service contracts, and facility-improvement projects
• Provide laboratory orientation and training

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, engineering technology, facilities management, laboratory management, operations, or a related technical field; equivalent practical experience may be considered
• Five or more years of experience managing engineering laboratories, test facilities, research facilities, manufacturing-support areas, or comparable technical environments
• Experience managing laboratory equipment, asset inventories, calibration programs, maintenance activities, facility repairs, contractors, and service providers
• Experience supporting hardware development, test, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, or research organizations
• Strong organizational, prioritization, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office or comparable tools
• Ability to work full-time on-site
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

Nice to have

• Master's degree in an engineering or business discipline
• Experience operating both classified and unclassified laboratories, including familiarity with NISPOM, controlled access, security inspections, export controls, and coordination with a Facility Securi
• Active U.S. security clearance
• Experience supporting RF, electronics, mechanical, environmental, propulsion, robotics, or flight-test laboratories
• Experience managing a machine-shop facility
• Experience with laboratory networking, isolated test networks, instrumentation systems, electrical distribution, grounding, HVAC, cooling, compressed gases, or backup power
• Experience managing capital-equipment purchases, operating budgets, service contracts, facility-improvement projects, or laboratory technicians
• Facility-management, project-management, or comparable professional certification
• experience with asset-management, maintenance-management, calibration-management, or facilities-management software

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
• 401k (+ 50% company match up to 6% of pay)
• FSA
• HSA
• life insurance
• Free daily lunch
• No meeting Fridays
• unlimited PTO
• casual dress code
• pre-IPO stock option grants
• relocation assistance
• annual bonuses (coming soon!)

Before you apply

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

About the company

CHAOS Industries is a modern defense company with a multi-product portfolio powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™). Headquartered in Los Angeles, the company was founded in 2022 and has raised $1 billion in funding.