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Our founding team hails from SpaceX, Anduril, and Lockheed Martin, and we are backed by Joint Staff-level military leadership and several Silicon Valley firms. Our first product is a low-cost air defense system built for immediate deployment worldwide. With a world-class business development and leadership team already in place, we are well positioned to capitalize on already overwhelming demand.\nReports To: Chief Operating Officer\nPosition Type: Full-time, exempt\nCareer Track: Multi-site facilities lead\nTravel: Occasional, primarily local/regional to support permitting, contractor, and vendor meetings\nClearance / Licensing: Must be eligible for ITAR authorization and open to future security clearance\nSingularity is operating in a 40k square foot in Gardena, which today houses 65+ on-site, full-time employees, with multiple areas, including R/D, inert low-rate manufacturing, vehicle build out, machine shops, and shipping and receiving, and will expand into an adjacent 200k square foot facility. Singularity is seeking a highly motivated, hands-on individual to maintain the existing infrastructure, solve problems, and proactively execute on future projects. The right candidate will build and manage an efficient and execution focused facility for some of the highest rates in DOD history, while maintaining effective research and development. In the next year, the company plans to expand, and this role will be critical not only once the next space goes live, but throughout the buildout process.\nKey Responsibilities:\nInfrastructure and capital projects\nPower: service capacity, distribution, panel and feeder buildout, backup, load buildout plan.\nCompressed air, process cooling, HVAC, exhaust, gas, plumbing, fire protection.\nYou scope, permit, run, and close out reconfiguration and tenant improvement projects.\nEquipment installation and commissioning: rigging, seismic anchoring, utility drops, acceptance testing, validation and after-sales service. \nOwnership over floorplan execution, and oversight of engineering area owners.\nOperations and maintenance\nStand up and own the preventive maintenance program for the facility, production equipment and facility support infrastructure \nMachine maintenance oversight across production and R&D equipment. \nCoordinate with security team on execution and oversight.\nVendors, landlord, and money\nOwn the vendor management: electrical, mechanical, HVAC, calibration, waste, janitorial, security, pest, landscaping.\nScope work, run bids, negotiate, hold vendors to schedule and quality.\nManage landlord relationship at HQ, including approvals and inspections.\nOwn the facilities maintenance CapEx and OpEx.\nSafety and compliance\nSupport EHS project execution: IIPP, LOTO, machine guarding, hot work, confined space, emergency action plan.\nKeep the building inspection ready for AHJ, fire, and customer or government audits.\nRequired Qualifications\n5+ years in facilities, plant engineering, or maintenance management at a manufacturer. Commercial office and property management experience does not count here.\nWorking knowledge of industrial utilities: 480V three-phase distribution, compressed air, HVAC and process cooling, plumbing, fire protection.\nYou have run capital or tenant improvement projects yourself. Read drawings, pulled permits, managed contractors, closed punch lists.\nVendor and subcontractor management: scoping, bidding, and holding people to what they signed.\nBoth volume production and R&D or prototype environments. You understand that a pilot line changes weekly and a production line cannot.\nCal/OSHA general industry familiarity.\nComfortable with a startup budget and no existing process. You will not have the tools, the staff, or the documentation on day one. You build them.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nCleared facility work\nRegion relevant experience and knowledge.\nYou have built or run a preventive maintenance program. You can explain your PM intervals.\nAerospace or defense manufacturing background: AS9100, ITAR handling, controlled area setup.\nCleanroom, ESD controlled, or environmentally controlled space management.\nCNC machine tools, ovens, environmental chambers, or test cell infrastructure.\nYou have supported a large-scale plant.\nExperience supporting a second site or a site transition. We are standing up a larger facility soon and this role will support that.\nPhysical Demands & Work Environment\nNavigate across an active construction site and, later, an operating energetics manufacturing campus.\nAbility to lift up to 50 pounds and comfortably navigate uneven terrain, stairs, and scaffolding.\nFamiliarity with industrial equipment, heavy machinery, weather extremes, and energetic/hazardous materials, with all required PPE provided.\nThis position requires the employee to reach all areas of a 100+ acre campus, including remote process and test locations.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4949,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Air Defense","Defense Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-30T23:57:21Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":192,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-01T06:10:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/singularity-defense-facilities-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/singularity-defense-facilities-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-01T11:47:09Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":18280,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-02T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3778918},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3778918"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsingularity-defense-facilities-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsingularity-defense-facilities-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsingularity-defense-facilities-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/singularity-defense-facilities-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsingularity-defense-facilities-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3553974}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"singularityus.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3553974},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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