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Salary: USD 216,000 - 231,000 / annual
Muon Space, a LEO satellite constellation provider founded in 2021, seeks a Director of Real Estate & Facilities to lead the infrastructure strategy and operations supporting spacecraft design, manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing. This is a hands-on executive role reporting to leadership, accountable for all facility operations across Muon's Silicon Valley campus.
You will own the multi-year facilities and site strategy, translating spacecraft production rate targets and program roadmaps into infrastructure and real estate requirements. You will build, lead, and develop the facilities organization—including facilities engineers, maintenance technicians, and contract staff—establishing performance expectations, technical depth, and on-call escalation structures.
Key responsibilities include: partnering with Manufacturing, AIT, Test, Quality, Growth, IT/Security, and People Operations to ensure facility design and operations support production flow and cleanliness requirements; owning the facilities capital and operating budget end-to-end, including forecasting, business case development, and ROI analysis; serving as executive sponsor for major capital projects (cleanroom build-outs, environmental test installations, utility expansions, site activations); defining and owning the reliability strategy for all facility infrastructure, including preventive/predictive maintenance, asset criticality ranking, spares strategy, and redundancy decisions; establishing and reporting facilities KPIs (uptime, deferred maintenance, project delivery, operating cost per square foot); sourcing, negotiating, and managing contracts with architects, general contractors, MEP design firms, commissioning agents, and service vendors; developing code compliance posture including permitting, occupancy, hazardous materials management, and environmental compliance; and developing business continuity and emergency response plans for seismic events, power loss, and other environmental threats.
Success means spacecraft production never waits on the building. This position is fully onsite, five days per week in San Jose.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, other technical discipline, or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of professional experience in facilities engineering, infrastructure, or plant operations, including 5+ years leading and developing teams
- Demonstrated ownership of large capital expansion projects from business case through commissioning and close-out, with accountability for multi-million dollar budgets and schedule commitments
- Experience setting infrastructure strategy for a manufacturing organization scaling production rate, and communicating that strategy and tradeoffs to an executive audience
- Strong familiarity with MEP and HVAC building systems (electrical, power distribution, critical power infrastructure, chillers, plumbing, process water systems) with ability to critically evaluate contractor and consulting engineer designs
- Proven vendor and contract management capability, including competitive bid processes, scope negotiation, and holding contractors accountable to technical and commercial terms
- Experience with heightened physical security requirements for critical industries
- Familiarity with Federal and State Environmental Health and Safety requirements
- Ability to quickly assess issues, engage directly with technicians on troubleshooting and repair, and make decisive calls under time pressure
- Acute attention to detail and ability to see interactions across systems to avoid problems before they reach production
NICE-TO-HAVE:
- Direct experience with aerospace manufacturing and environmental test equipment (clean rooms, vibration tables, thermal vacuum chambers, in-air thermal chambers) and their facility loads and interfaces
- Experience with specialty gas and cryogenic systems (CDA and LN2 generation, storage, distribution)
- 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 as they apply to facility and infrastructure controls
