The role
What you'll do
- As we scale to support the rapid expansion of U.S. aerospace manufacturing, we're standing up a new high-throughput factory that will be the largest in our footprint to date — a 2M+ sqft site with complex manufacturing operations including welding, sheet metal, assembly, and precision machining, supported by industrial-scale facility systems.
- We're looking for a hands-on Senior Manager, Facilities Infrastructure to be one of the first leaders on the ground and the operations-side owner of the building from construction handoff through stabilized production. You will serve as the primary point of contact for the general contractor during construction, drive system commissioning and turnover, and then run the site's facilities and maintenance organization once the factory comes online.
- In this role you will operate as the site lead within a multi-site function. You'll bring proactive maintenance and world-class facility reliability to a building of unprecedented scale for the company, treating production as your customer and uptime as the product. You will build and lead the founding facilities and maintenance team, partner closely with Production, Engineering, and Quality, and own the relationships with the vendors and OEMs that keep the building running.
- If you're excited to build the systems that power American industrial resurgence — and to do it from the slab up — we'd love to meet you.
The bar
What you'll bring
- Experience standing up a new manufacturing facility from construction handoff through stabilized operations
- Familiarity with predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, and reliability engineering practices
- Trade certifications or licenses (electrical, HVAC, EPA refrigerant, crane operator, or equivalent) directly held or strongly familiar
- Exposure to Lean Manufacturing, TPM, or continuous improvement methodologies
- Experience managing large vendor and OEM service contracts
- Strong understanding of CNC machinery, welding and sheet metal equipment, assembly automation, and the mechanical and controls systems behind them
- To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here .
The deal
What you get
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
- 401k
- Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.
- Flexible vacation policy
- Equity
Additional notes
Other
Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future
Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. By combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, ships, and other mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost.
Following our $1.37B Series D at a $7.87B valuation, Hadrian is rapidly expanding our manufacturing footprint, launching new capabilities across welding, casting, forging, electronics, additive manufacturing, and more, while scaling our Factory-as-a-Service platform to transform how critical products are built.
Backed by leading investors including JPMorgan Chase, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Lux Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Morgan Stanley, we’re building the future of American manufacturing—and looking for exceptional people to help make it happen.
If you’re ready to take on the most challenging and rewarding work of your career while helping create American manufacturing jobs for generations to come, you’re exactly who we’re looking for.
Facility Startup & Construction Interface
Serve as the primary internal point of contact for all construction activity in the building — coordinate daily with the general contractor, sub-trades, and construction management on schedule, scope, access, and issue resolution
Partner with engineering on construction-to-operations handoff: punch lists, system commissioning, OEM acceptance testing, warranty tracking, and as-built documentation for HVAC, electrical distribution and substations, compressed air, fire/life safety, cranes, and building envelope
Sequence facility readiness against the production ramp so that utilities, environmental controls, and material-handling systems are operational before equipment installs and first parts
Build the site's foundational documentation set: drawings, equipment registers, maintenance plans, vendor lists, spares lists, contractor access procedures, and emergency response protocols
Stand up the CMMS at the site and load asset records, PM schedules, and procedures as equipment is commissioned
Site Leadership & Strategy Execution
Build and lead a high-performing facilities and maintenance team at the site, including front-line supervisors and multi-shift technician headcount
Execute the multi-site maintenance strategy at the site level, including preventive maintenance, long-range asset planning, and reliability programs
Own site-level KPIs and accountability for uptime, response time, PM compliance, and time-to-close
Define headcount and budget plans for site facilities and maintenance functions
Instill a strong customer-service mindset toward Production and a culture of urgency, ownership, and continuous improvement
Hire, onboard, and develop the founding maintenance and facilities team
Facility Systems Reliability & Operations
Own the performance and reliability of facility infrastructure: electrical substations and distribution, HVAC and process cooling, compressed air, water and waste, overhead cranes and hoists, dock equipment, building automation, and the building envelope
Drive uptime across complex production equipment — welding cells, sheet metal forming and cutting, assembly lines, CNC machine tools, and supporting automation
Lead troubleshooting and escalation of critical infrastructure or equipment failures to minimize downtime
Ensure all assets meet performance, safety, and inspection standards before being placed or returned to service
Establish and run building inspection routines (electrical, mechanical, structural, fire/life safety) at the cadence appropriate to a >1M sqft industrial facility
Preventive & Predictive Maintenance
Implement and standardize preventive maintenance programs across all site assets using real-time data from the CMMS
Monitor asset performance, schedule maintenance, and analyze trends to surface predictive maintenance opportunities
Partner with Production and Workforce Development to standardize common maintenance and error-response activities and embed them in the production technician workflow
Downtime Response, Communication & Root Cause Analysis
Own site-level communication and escalation protocols for equipment and facility downtime