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As we scale, our lab is becoming a real production facility: cleanrooms, industrial fabrication tools, dilution refrigerators, gas and cryogenic systems that must run reliably every day.\nWe are looking for an Operations & Reliability Manager to build and lead the team that keeps this facility available, reliable and ready to scale. You will own how we run operations day to day and how we make them progressively more robust: preventive maintenance, monitoring and data, resilience, and the operational readiness of our current and future facilities. You will build and grow a team of technicians and, over time, an on-call and shift coverage team, own the facility operations budget, and work hand in hand with Production, R&D, Qubit Control and Software.\nThis role reports to the R&D Operations lead.\nKey Responsibilities:\nBuild, lead and grow the Operations team\nBuild and lead the Operations function, covering both day-to-day operation (Run) and reliability and facility projects (Build).\nManage and grow a team of technicians across facilities and equipment, and set a clear operating rhythm (reviews, priorities, follow-up).\nBe the operational owner of facility and equipment availability, and the escalation point when the first line cannot resolve an issue.\nSet and be accountable for the operations KPIs: uptime, lost production days due to facility or equipment downtime, planned versus unplanned maintenance ratio, MTBF and MTTR.\nReliability and preventive maintenance\nBuild and own the preventive-maintenance program for the cryostats, cleanroom tools and facility systems (planned maintenance, maintenance management system, spare-parts strategy).\nContinuously improve equipment reliability and uptime, evolving from scheduled maintenance toward condition-based and predictive maintenance as the data layer matures.\nData and monitoring\nOwn the facility and equipment data layer and its monitoring dashboards, built with the Software team, to track performance and surface issues early.\nUse data to prioritize, detect drift early, and make operational decisions evidence-based rather than reactive.\nFacilities, utilities and suppliers\nEnsure the availability of the facility and its utilities (power, water, gas, HVAC, cooling-water and cryogenic systems).\nManage, coordinate and challenge external service providers and contractors, owning both the budget and the quality of the works they perform.\nSupport the design, commissioning and operational readiness of new facilities (a new measurement center and a larger production facility).\nCoverage, incident response and safety\nStructure, staff and coordinate the on-call rotation, and over the medium term a shift (3x8) team, for nights and weekends; 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