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As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.\nFirefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company on a mission to reliably and repeatedly launch, land, and operate space systems from Earth to the Moon and beyond. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the first commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the first company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nConstruction Program & Portfolio Execution\nOwn end-to-end execution of assigned construction and facilities project portfolios across Firefly campuses, from project approval and scope development through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.\nEstablish and maintain a consistent construction project delivery methodology, including project phases, stage gates, required deliverables, documentation, and handoff criteria, appropriately scaled to project size and complexity.\nLead multiple concurrent construction projects, balancing resources, priorities, schedule, risk, funding, and operational requirements across campuses.\nDevelop and maintain integrated construction plans that sequence work around active manufacturing, production, testing, and engineering operations to minimize disruption to mission-critical activities.\nPartner closely with Facilities, Production, Test, Engineering, EHS, Security, IT, Finance, and other internal stakeholders to define project requirements, manage operational impacts, and ensure organizational readiness.\nServe as the primary owner’s representative for major construction projects, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with approved scope and quality requirements.\nEstablish project execution strategies appropriate to delivery method, including design-bid-build, design-build, construction manager, general contractor, and specialty trade execution.\nEstimating, Scheduling & Cost Control\nDevelop and validate construction estimates from conceptual/ROM through definitive estimates, including quantity takeoffs, labor and material assumptions, contingency, escalation, and appropriate allowances.\nLead development of project budgets, schedules, cash flow forecasts, and execution plans in support of capital approval and annual planning processes.\nBuild, baseline, and maintain integrated project schedules using Microsoft Project or equivalent scheduling tools, including critical path analysis, resource loading, milestone tracking, and schedule recovery planning.\nDevelop and manage project spend plans and cash flow forecasts; track commitments, actual expenditures, forecast at completion, contingency, and variance to approved budget.\nProvide estimating, schedule, risk, and constructability input for CapEx approval packages, governance reviews, and funding decisions.\nPartner with Finance to appropriately classify project scope as capital or expense and ensure compliance with capitalization policies, thresholds, construction-in-progress accounting, and asset placed-in-service requirements.\nAdminister formal change management processes, including evaluation, pricing, documentation, negotiation, approval, and tracking of change orders and potential changes.\nIdentify cost and schedule trends early and develop corrective action plans to protect project commitments.\nConstruction Risk, Safety & Governance\nEstablish and maintain project risk registers covering cost, schedule, safety, technical, operational, permitting, procurement, and construction risks.\nQuantify risk exposure and develop mitigation and contingency strategies with clear ownership and trigger conditions.\nProactively escalate material risks, issues, and decisions with recommended courses of action and quantified cost, schedule, safety, and operational impacts.\nEnsure projects comply with applicable building codes, permitting requirements, authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) approvals, life safety requirements, environmental requirements, and Firefly standards.\nPartner with EHS to ensure contractors implement site-specific safety plans and comply with applicable requirements, including hot work, LOTO, confined space, excavation, and other high-risk construction activities.\nEstablish and enforce construction quality expectations, inspection requirements, punch-list management, commissioning readiness, and final turnover criteria.\nPrepare and present project status, financial performance, schedule performance, risk, and decision requests to the Director of Facilities and executive leadership.\nContractor, Vendor & Contract Management\nLead contractor and vendor selection activities, including development of scopes of work, RFPs, bid walks, bid leveling, technical evaluations, and recommendation of award.\nManage general contractors, construction managers, design-build partners, architects, engineers, and specialty trades to ensure compliance with contracted scope, schedule, cost, safety, and quality requirements.\nAdminister construction contracts and purchase orders within approved authority and in coordination with Supply Chain, Finance, and Legal as appropriate.\nReview contractor pay applications, validate percent complete, confirm installed quantities, and manage retention, lien releases, and supporting documentation.\nNegotiate and manage change orders, claims, schedule impacts, and contractor performance issues.\nDevelop and maintain a qualified contractor and specialty-trade network to support current and future construction requirements across Firefly campuses.\nReporting & Performance Management\nProvide recurring construction program reporting to the Director of Facilities and executive leadership covering project cost, schedule, risk, safety, quality, and operational readiness.\nMaintain consistent project financial reporting, including approved budget, commitments, actuals, forecast at completion, variance to budget, and remaining contingency.\nTrack schedule performance against approved baseline schedules and clearly identify schedule variance and critical-path impacts.\nPresent exceptions, trends, and recommended actions rather than raw project status, clearly communicating what is off plan, why it is off plan, the business impact, and the corrective action required.\nMaintain a centralized portfolio view of active construction projects, providing current visibility into scope, budget, schedule, risk, and project status.\nEnsure project financial information reconciles with Finance’s system of record and resolve discrepancies prior to reporting.\nPrepare executive-level and governance-level reporting packages supporting capital requests, funding decisions, project reviews, and portfolio prioritization.\nProvide immediate notification of material cost, schedule, safety, quality, or operational impacts between formal reporting cycles.\nConduct project closeout reviews and capture lessons learned to continuously improve Firefly’s construction delivery processes.\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS\nBachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related technical discipline. Equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience will be considered.\n10+ years of progressive experience managing construction programs, capital projects, or major facilities projects, including demonstrated ownership of projects exceeding $5M.\nDemonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent construction projects and/or a complex capital project portfolio.\nExperience delivering projects within an active manufacturing, industrial, aerospace, semiconductor, or similarly complex operational environment - required.\nDemonstrated experience serving as an owner’s representative and managing general contractors, construction managers, design professionals, and specialty contractors.\nProven expertise in construction estimating, including scope development, quantity takeoffs, bid leveling, contingency, escalation, and cost validation.\nAdvanced proficiency with Microsoft Project or equivalent scheduling software, including schedule baselining, critical path analysis, resource loading, and multi-project portfolio management.\nDemonstrated experience managing project budgets, spend plans, cash flow forecasts, commitments, actuals, and cost-to-complete analysis.\nExperience with formal construction risk management, including risk registers, probability/impact assessments, mitigation planning, and contingency management.\nDemonstrated experience managing contracts, change orders, claims, contractor performance, and commercial issues.\nWorking knowledge of building codes, permitting, AHJ requirements, life safety systems, and construction regulatory requirements.\nExperience coordinating MEP systems, commissioning, construction turnover, and operational readiness.\nDemonstrated experience producing project and portfolio reporting for senior and executive leadership, including cost, schedule, risk, and variance analysis.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders, resolve complex project issues, and communicate effectively with executive leadership.\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nExperience in the space, aerospace, defense, semiconductor, advanced manufacturing, or other highly regulated industrial environments.\nPMP certification, PE license, CCM certification, or other relevant professional certification.\nExperience delivering high-bay manufacturing facilities, cleanrooms, test facilities, test stands, hazardous systems, propellant facilities, or other technically complex infrastructure.\nExperience with pre-engineered metal building (PEMB) delivery and greenfield site development.\nExperience with complex mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP), controls, utilities, and industrial systems.\nExperience leading commissioning, startup, turnover, and operational readiness activities.\nExperience managing design-build and other alternative project delivery methods.\nExperience managing construction projects across multiple geographic locations.\nFamiliarity with CMMS, CAFM, IWMS, project controls, or capital project management systems.\nWorking knowledge of capital accounting practices, including capitalization thresholds, construction-in-progress (CIP), and asset placed-in-service timing.\nExperience establishing construction standards, processes, project controls, and governance frameworks within a rapidly scaling organization.\nPrimary Level Salary Range:\nFirefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, relocation benefits, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.\nTo conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.\nFirefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; 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