Facilities Manager

Singularity Defense Corp.; Gardena (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Singularity Defense Corp., an aerospace and defense startup in Gardena, CA, is seeking a hands-on Facilities Manager to maintain the existing infrastructure and lead future buildouts. This full-time, exempt role reports to the Chief Operating Officer and will oversee capital projects, preventive maintenance, vendor relations, and regulatory compliance across production and R&D spaces.

You will scope and manage projects, coordinate with security, manage landlord relations, and ensure readiness

Qualifications

• 5+ years in facilities, plant engineering, or maintenance management.
• Working knowledge of industrial utilities: 480V three-phase distribution, compressed air, HVAC and process cooling.
• You have run capital or tenant improvement projects. Read drawings, pulled permits, managed contractors, closed punch lists.
• Vendor and subcontractor management: scoping, bidding, and holding people to what they signed.
• Both volume production and R&D or prototype environments.
• Cal/OSHA general industry familiarity.
• You can build PM programs and startup-budget processes from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure and capital projects: power capacity, distribution, panel and feeder buildout, backup systems.
• HVAC, exhaust, plumbing, fire protection and process cooling management.
• Scope, permit, run, and close out reconfiguration and tenant improvement projects.
• Equipment installation and commissioning: rigging, seismic anchoring, utility drops, testing.
• Ownership over floorplan execution and oversight of engineering area owners.
• Stand up preventive maintenance program for the facility and production equipment.
• Coordinate with security, and manage vendor relationships.
• Manage landlord relationship at HQ and CapEx/OpEx ownership.
• Support safety and compliance: IIPP, LOTO, machine guarding, audits readiness.

Skills

Facilities management

Facilities engineering

Vendor management

Permitting

Budget management

Reading drawings

Startup budgeting

Job description

Singularity is an aerospace and defense startup headquartered in Gardena, CA. 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.

Reports To:Chief Operating Officer

Position Type:Full-time, exempt

CareerTrack: Multi-site facilities lead

Travel: Occasional, primarily local/regional to support permitting, contractor, and vendor meetings

Clearance / Licensing:Must be eligible for ITAR authorization and open to future security clearance

Singularity 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.

Key Responsibilities:

Infrastructure and capital projects

• Power: service capacity, distribution, panel and feeder buildout, backup, load buildout plan.
• Compressed air, process cooling, HVAC, exhaust, gas, plumbing, fire protection.
• You scope, permit, run, and close out reconfiguration and tenant improvement projects.
• Equipment installation and commissioning: rigging, seismic anchoring, utility drops, acceptance testing, validation and after-sales service.
• Ownership over floorplan execution, and oversight of engineering area owners.

Operations and maintenance

• Stand up and own the preventive maintenance program for the facility, production equipment and facility support infrastructure
• Machine maintenance oversight across production and R&D equipment.
• Coordinate with security team on execution and oversight.

Vendors, landlord, and money

• Own the vendor management: electrical, mechanical, HVAC, calibration, waste, janitorial, security, pest, landscaping.
• Scope work, run bids, negotiate, hold vendors to schedule and quality.
• Manage landlord relationship at HQ, including approvals and inspections.
• Own the facilities maintenance CapEx and OpEx.

Safety and compliance

• Support EHS project execution: IIPP, LOTO, machine guarding, hot work, confined space, emergency action plan.
• Keep the building inspection ready for AHJ, fire, and customer or government audits.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years in facilities, plant engineering, or maintenance management at a manufacturer. Commercial office and property management experience does not count here.
• Working knowledge of industrial utilities: 480V three-phase distribution, compressed air, HVAC and process cooling, plumbing, fire protection.
• You have run capital or tenant improvement projects yourself. Read drawings, pulled permits, managed contractors, closed punch lists.
• Vendor and subcontractor management: scoping, bidding, and holding people to what they signed.
• Both volume production and R&D or prototype environments. You understand that a pilot line changes weekly and a production line cannot.
• Cal/OSHA general industry familiarity.
• Comfortable 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cleared facility work
• Region relevant experience and knowledge.
• You have built or run a preventive maintenance program. You can explain your PM intervals.
• Aerospace or defense manufacturing background: AS9100, ITAR handling, controlled area setup.
• Cleanroom, ESD controlled, or environmentally controlled space management.
• CNC machine tools, ovens, environmental chambers, or test cell infrastructure.
• You have supported a large-scale plant.
• Experience supporting a second site or a site transition. We are standing up a larger facility soon and this role will support that.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

• Navigateacross an active construction site and, later, an operatingenergeticsmanufacturing campus.
• Ability tolift upto 50 pounds and comfortably navigate uneven terrain, stairs, and scaffolding.
• Familiarity withindustrial equipment, heavy machinery, weather extremes, and energetic/hazardous materials, with all required PPE provided.
• This position requires the employee toreach all areas of a 100+ acre campus, including remote process and test locations.