Facilities Manager

Position Overview

At Aurora Flight Sciences, we design, build, and fly advanced aircraft and enabling technologies. We are searching for a talented and self-motivated Facilities Manager to help us advance the future of flight. Responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:

Responsibilities

• Ensure Safety is always first in all activities to assure the safety and wellbeing of all employees, visitors, and contractors.
• Implement all necessary measures and initiatives to maintain manufacturing equipment uptime over 95% of the time.
• Manage Maintenance Planning process to develop and implement manufacturing resiliency initiatives.
• Develop, manage, and execute Facilities improvement projects.
• Support the installation and relocation of manufacturing equipment.
• Assure all equipment and infrastructure, and any other elements impacting a safe work environment are always in top operational conditions.
• Maintenance, repair, and upgrading of the existing facility equipment and all equipment documentation.
• Interface with design/build team and subcontractors in the event of renovations and facility build-out.
• Interface with other technology and engineering teams to specify new manufacturing automation and equipment.
• Coordinate with contractors and landlord when HVAC, electrical, plumbing, etc. repairs or upgrades are needed.
• Primary liaison with outside machine shops and equipment vendors for both fabrication and repair work.
• Assist in safety operations, including routine scheduled inspections of equipment including fire extinguishers, safety showers, etc.
• Define equipment and tool needs and develop plans to obtain required equipment, tools, and hardware.
• Maintain manufacturing and utilities machinery and ensure measurement equipment is kept within calibration and in optimal conditions.
• Manage Maintenance Engineering to identify and evaluate opportunities for improvement across the facility and develop engineering solutions to mitigate the situations and to proactively mitigate potential issues.
• Order supplies/materials.
• Oversee facilities personnel safety and training; manage spare parts inventory, support Management with permits, licenses, etc.
• Meet all standard operating procedures, codes, and regulations.
• Train employees on production equipment utilization.
• Identification and procurement of new equipment as needed through Cap Ex process management.
• Travel to other Aurora sites as needed to manage and support process and equipment maintenance improvement initiatives.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (preferred), or trade school certificate.
• Must be a US Person
• 7+ years related work experience in Facilities.
• 3+ years of experience managing Facilities teams.
• 7+ years of experience managing Multiskilled Engineering teams.
• Excellent inter-personal skills, organization skills, and strong analytical ability.
• Excellent communication skills – oral and written.
• A valid US driver license is required.

Preferred Requirements

• Desire and aptitude to work in a creative and innovative environment

Physical Requirements

• The employee must be willing to work safely and obey all safety regulations a must.
• Must be able to lift to 35 pounds.

• Must be available 24/7 to respond to emergency or to respond to work being performed by contractors after hours. Must be available to work off hours as needed.

Salary Range (Annualized USD)

• Minimum Range: $83,000.00 to $148,000.00
• Maximum Range: $103,000.00 to $184,000.00