Director, Real Estate & Facilities

The posting, as Muon Space wrote it

About the role

Muon seeks a Director of Facilities to lead the team responsible for the infrastructure that our spacecraft are designed, built, and tested on. You will own the strategy, capital plan, and day-to-day performance of every facility Muon operates — from cleanroom and AIT space to environmental test infrastructure, critical power and process utilities. This is a hands-on executive role: you will set multi-year site and capacity strategy with the leadership team, defend and manage a capital and operating budget, and then personally drive the projects and vendor relationships that deliver it. You will build and develop the facilities engineering and maintenance organization and act as the single accountable owner for facility uptime against an aggressive spacecraft production ramp. Success in this role looks like spacecraft production never waiting on the building.

This position is fully onsite and requires working in our San Jose, CA office five days a week.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the multi-year facilities and site strategy for Muon, translating spacecraft production rate targets and program roadmaps into infrastructure and real estate requirements, and presenting those plans and their tradeoffs to the executive team.
• Build, lead, and develop the facilities organization, including facilities engineers, maintenance technicians, and contract staff. Set performance expectations, grow technical depth on the team, and establish on-call and escalation structures.
• Partner with Manufacturing, AIT, Test, Quality, Growth, IT/Security, and People Operations to ensure facility design and operations support production flow, cleanliness requirements, and a safe, high-quality work environment.
• Own the facilities capital and operating budget end-to-end, including forecasting, business case and ROI development for proposed projects, prioritization across competing program needs, and accountability for spend against plan.
• Serve as executive sponsor for major capital projects — cleanroom build-outs, environmental test installations, utility expansions, and site activations — making scope, schedule, cost, and risk tradeoff decisions.
• Define and own the reliability strategy for all facility infrastructure, including preventive and predictive maintenance programs, criticality ranking of assets, spares strategy, and redundancy decisions.
• Establish and report facilities KPIs — uptime, deferred maintenance, project delivery against baseline, and operating cost per square foot — to the team and to executive leadership on a regular basis.
• Lead the process to source, negotiate and manage contracts and performance for architects, general contractors, MEP design firms, commissioning agents, and service vendors; hold vendors to Muon's technical standards and commercial terms.
• Develop the code compliance posture of Muon's sites, including permitting strategy with local authorities, occupancy and inspection close-out, haz

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aking Care of Our Team

At Muon salary is only part of our total compensation package. In addition to salary, full-time employees receive equity compensation as well as benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short & long term disability and life insurance. We also offer three weeks paid vacation for new employees, along with 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time and paid parental leave.

Our mission embraces the entire planet and we believe our team should too. Muon is dedicated to creating a diverse and dynamic company and workforce. We believe in equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity. We value diversity in the workplace, and that starts with our applicants. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application! In addition, if you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.

Muon is currently registered and able to hire in the following states:
AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, IA, ID, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA

ITAR/EAR Requirements

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.