Facilities Manager (Aerospace & Defense)

Location: Gardena, California, United States; onsite work across an active manufacturing campus is required. Occasional local and regional travel is required for permitting, contractor, and vendor meetings.

Company

hirify.global is an aerospace and defense startup developing a low-cost air defense system for worldwide deployment.

What you will do

• Own infrastructure and capital projects covering power distribution, compressed air, HVAC, process cooling, exhaust, gas, plumbing, and fire protection.
• Scope, permit, execute, and close out reconfiguration and tenant improvement projects, including contractor management and punch lists.
• Lead equipment installation and commissioning, including rigging, seismic anchoring, utility drops, acceptance testing, validation, and service coordination.
• Build and manage preventive maintenance for facilities, production equipment, and facility-support infrastructure.
• Manage vendors, bids, schedules, quality, landlord approvals, inspections, and facilities maintenance CapEx and OpEx.
• Support EHS execution and keep the site inspection-ready for authorities having jurisdiction, fire, customer, and government audits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of facilities, plant engineering, or maintenance management experience at a manufacturer; commercial office and property management experience does not qualify.
• Working knowledge of industrial utilities, including 480V three-phase distribution, compressed air, HVAC and process cooling, plumbing, and fire protection.
• Experience personally running capital or tenant improvement projects, reading drawings, pulling permits, managing contractors, and closing punch lists.
• Experience scoping, bidding, and managing vendors and subcontractors against agreed schedules and quality standards.
• Experience in both volume production and R&D or prototype environments.
• Familiarity with Cal/OSHA general industry requirements.
• Ability to build tools, staffing, documentation, and processes in a startup environment without established infrastructure.
• Must be eligible for ITAR authorization and open to a future security clearance.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds and navigate uneven terrain, stairs, scaffolding, industrial equipment, heavy machinery, and hazardous-material areas with required PPE.

Nice to have

• Cleared facility work and relevant regional experience.
• Experience building or running preventive maintenance programs, including defining PM intervals.
• Aerospace or defense manufacturing experience, including AS9100, ITAR handling, or controlled-area setup.
• Cleanroom, ESD-controlled, or environmentally controlled space management experience.
• Experience with CNC machine tools, ovens, environmental chambers, or test-cell infrastructure.
• Experience supporting a large-scale plant, a second site, or a site transition.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, salaried, exempt position reporting to the Chief Operating Officer.
• Multi-site facilities leadership role supporting expansion from a 40,000-square-foot facility into an adjacent 200,000-square-foot facility.
• Work spans R&D, inert low-rate manufacturing, vehicle buildout, machine shops, shipping and receiving, and future energetics manufacturing areas.
• Regular access to remote process and test locations across a 100+ acre campus is required.