Director, Real Estate & Facilities

The role

You will lead the team responsible for the infrastructure used to design, build, and test spacecraft. You will own the strategy, capital plan, and day-to-day performance of all Muon facilities.

What you will do

• Build and maintain the multi-year facilities and site strategy.
• Build, lead, and develop the facilities organization.
• Partner with Manufacturing, AIT, Test, Quality, Growth, IT/Security, and People Operations.
• Own the facilities capital and operating budget end-to-end.
• Serve as executive sponsor for major capital projects.
• Define and own the reliability strategy for all facility infrastructure.
• Establish and report facilities KPIs.
• Lead the process to source, negotiate and manage contracts with vendors.
• Develop the code compliance posture of Muon's sites.
• Develop the business continuity and emergency response plans.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, other technical discipline or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of professional experience in facilities engineering, infrastructure, or plant operations.
• 5+ years leading and developing teams.
• Demonstrated ownership of large capital expansion projects with accountability for multi-million dollar budgets and schedule commitments.
• Experience setting infrastructure strategy for a manufacturing organization scaling production rate.
• Strong familiarity with MEP and HVAC building systems.
• Proven vendor and contract management capability.
• Experience with heightened physical security requirements for critical industries.
• Familiarity with Federal and State Environmental Health and Safety requirements.
• Ability to quickly assess an issue and engage directly with technicians on troubleshooting and repair.
• Acute attention to detail.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with aerospace manufacturing and environmental test equipment.
• Experience with specialty gas and cryogenic systems.
• Experience activating a new site or standing up a greenfield manufacturing facility.
• Experience developing and managing facilities across multiple geographically distributed sites.
• Familiarity with CMMS platforms and building management systems.
• Experience with AutoCAD, Revit, or engineering design software.
• Familiarity with AS9100 or similar quality systems.

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k retirement plan
• Short & long term disability and life insurance
• Three weeks paid vacation for new employees
• 12 paid holidays
• Unlimited sick time
• Paid parental leave

Before you apply

• This position requires access to export controlled information.
• Applicant must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, refugee, or asylee) or eligible to access export controlled information.

About the company

Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations. Their facility in Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payload integration at scale.