Director of Facilities

Icarus; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Top market salary and bonuses

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Factory in El Segundo

Job summary

Icarus is building a solar-powered aircraft program and seeks a seasoned Facilities leader in El Segundo to own and scale our physical environment. You will manage end-to-end facilities operations, drive factory expansion, and coordinate with engineering, manufacturing, and operations to remove bottlenecks.

Your role requires strong project and vendor management, hands-on site leadership, and a track record in industrial infrastructure and manufacturing growth.

Qualifications

• Experience leading facilities, factory infrastructure, or capital projects.
• Experience building or expanding manufacturing facilities from the ground up.
• Strong project and vendor management abilities.
• Highly organized with attention to detail.
• Experience at hardware-focused companies (SpaceX, Tesla, etc.) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own facilities end to end, from daily operations to long-term expansion.
• Lead factory buildouts, renovations, and infrastructure projects.
• Design factory layouts to improve velocity of engineering and manufacturing.
• Plan equipment moves, installations, and production-area expansions.
• Own utilities, including electrical, HVAC, and networking.

Skills

Facilities leadership

Project management

Vendor management

Industrial infrastructure

Cross-functional coordination

Aerospace manufacturing

Job description

Icarus was founded on the belief that the Stratosphere is the Forgotten Frontierand that reclaiming it will define the next era of aerospace and what is possible from the sky. We build solar-powered aircraft that fly at 60,000 ft for weeks at a time, delivering persistent, affordable, and scalable presence from this layer of the atmosphere.

Mission

Re-establish and maintain dominance in the Stratosphere.

What you’ll do

Own every aspect of Icarus’ physical infrastructure. Your job is simple: build and maintain an environment where engineers can focus entirely on building aircraft. You will:

• Own our facilities end to end, from daily operations to long-term expansion.
• Lead factory buildouts, renovations, and infrastructure projects.
• Design factory layouts that improve engineering and manufacturing velocity.
• Plan and execute equipment moves, machine installations, and production area expansions.
• Own utilities including electrical, HVAC, compressed air, networking, and other critical infrastructure.
• Manage contractors, vendors, construction projects, permits, and inspections.
• Develop long-term facility roadmaps as the company grows into new buildings and manufacturing capabilities.
• Own physical security, badge access, maintenance programs, and site reliability.
• Ensure our facilities are safe, organized, and always ready to support testing and production.
• Remove every physical bottleneck that slows engineers, technicians, and manufacturing.

What we’re looking for

• Experience leading facilities, factory infrastructure, manufacturing expansion, capital projects, or industrial construction.
• Experience building or expanding manufacturing facilities from the ground up.
• Comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong understanding of construction, utilities, mechanical systems, and industrial infrastructure.
• Excellent project management and vendor management skills.
• Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail.
• Self-directed with extreme ownership. You identify problems before anyone else and solve them without waiting to be asked.
• Willing to spend time both behind a computer and walking the factory floor.
• Aerospace, automotive, robotics, or advanced manufacturing experience.
• Experience at SpaceX, Tesla, Anduril, Rivian, Amazon Robotics, or similar hardware companies.
• Experience supporting rapid company growth and facility expansion.

Why Icarus

1. Meaningful equity
2. Top market salary and bonuses
3. Health, dental, and vision insurance
4. Factory in El Segundo
5. Real ownership, real hardware, real flight
6. Small team, massive responsibility (but growing very fast)
7. High signal (engineering) to noise (management) culture
8. Dream desk setup
9. Daily lunch
10. Unlimited celsius

This is not a typical facilities job

1. We don’t think of facilities as a support function.
2. At Icarus, the factory is one of our most important products.
3. Every wall, machine, utility, workbench, production line, and square foot should make our engineers and technicians faster. Your mission is to build and continuously improve that environment.
4. You’ll work closely with the CEO and leaders across engineering, manufacturing, flight operations, and business operations to ensure our facilities never become the bottleneck.
5. We move fast. We expect extreme ownership, sound judgment, and relentless execution.

No tourists. No bystanders. Only builders.

Hiring process

1. Intro call
2. Interview with the CEO
3. Meet the team in-person

US salary range

$140,000 - $200,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Icarus’ total compensation package.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applicants without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.