Senior Manager, Facilities Infrastructure

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.

The Role

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.

What You'll Do

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

Run structured communication cadences at the site: daily check-ins with production, weekly maintenance status reviews, and monthly KPI reporting to site and functional leadership

Lead root cause analysis on critical or recurring failures and ensure corrective actions are implemented on the floor

Continuously analyze downtime data to drive process and equipment improvements

Collaborate closely with Production, Engineering, and Quality to align maintenance priorities with operational needs

Vendor, Contractor & Asset Planning

Build relationships with service providers and OEMs to reduce response times and parts lead times for the site

Manage site-level service contracts, SLAs, and on-site response standards

Own contractor management on an active site: access, badging, lockout/tagout coordination, safety briefings, hot-work permits, and confined-space coordination

Build and manage spare parts strategy and inventory for both production and facility-critical systems

Contribute to capital planning for the site, including asset lifecycle, upgrades, tooling needs, and major infrastructure projects

Compliance & Continuous Improvement

Ensure all facility and maintenance activities meet aerospace, environmental, and life-safety regulatory requirements (OSHA, NFPA, EPA, applicable building and fire codes)

Maintain compliance with regulated systems: pressure vessels, lifting equipment, electrical, refrigerants, and environmental permits

Own safety outcomes and audit readiness for facility and maintenance-related activities at the site

Enforce lockout/tagout, energized work, working-at-heights, crane and rigging, hot-work, and confined-space procedures

Identify and implement process improvements that improve uptime, reduce cost, and improve safety

What We're Looking For

10+ years of facilities or maintenance experience in industrial manufacturing, with at least 5 years in a site or multi-site leadership role

Experience operating or commissioning a facility of 500K sqft or larger with mixed production and complex utility infrastructure

Direct experience with HVAC, compressed air, electrical distribu