Maintenance & Operations Director - NASA

Chugach Alaska Corporation; Florida; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Chugach Government Solutions (CGS) is seeking a seasoned Maintenance & Operations Director to lead facilities, systems, and utilities across a complex multi-facility portfolio. The role oversees preventive maintenance, budgeting, scheduling, and staffing while ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, and contract adherence.

Responsibilities include coordinating with NASA stakeholders, reporting on status and performance, and guiding technical teams toward reliable, cost-efficient operations.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in maintenance operations management, with leadership of technical teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Project/Construction/Engineering or related field.
• Security clearance eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-site leadership for maintenance & operations across multi-facility portfolio.
• Oversee preventive and reactive maintenance, scheduling, and budgeting.
• Coordinate with program leadership and stakeholders on priorities, risks and reports.
• Ensure compliance with NASA requirements, OSHA, and contract provisions.
• Lead teams to meet performance metrics and cost targets.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Team leadership

Budgeting

Performance metrics

Safety compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in PM/Construction/Engineering

Tools

Maximo CMMS

Job description

About Us

When you work at Chugach Government Solutions (CGS), you join a proud legacy of supporting missions while sustaining culture.

The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, CGS has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. Our focus is to support facility maintenance, IT/technical services, construction and education. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields – each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.

At CGS, empowering employees is a part of our core, and that focus is one of the ways we build and foster high-performing teams. We empower our employees through competitive compensation and benefits package, professional growth opportunities, truthful communication, and more!

If you are looking for an opportunity to serve something bigger than yourself; if you want your day job to be one that creates meaningful value; if you are looking for an environment that highly values employees and respects individual differences – then Chugach Government Solutions may be the right fit for you!

Position Location

Merritt Island, FL

Job Overview

The Maintenance & Operations Director leads maintenance and operational delivery for SIMO’s facilities, systems, equipment, and utilities (FSEU) portfolio. The role provides senior oversight of preventive maintenance, predictive testing and inspection, reactive maintenance, recurring facility operations, work control, technical staffing, budgeting, scheduling, and resource allocation across a complex multi-facility environment.

Responsibilities

Essential Job Duties:

• Provide on-site and office-based leadership for maintenance and operations work, ensuring alignment with contract requirements, customer priorities, and performance objectives.
• Oversee preventive maintenance, predictive testing and inspection, reactive maintenance, service requests, recurring operations, and work-control activities for assigned FSEU.
• Coordinate work planning, estimates, schedules, labor, equipment, materials, and budgets to support timely and cost-effective delivery.
• Lead technical teams and supervisors; assign work, monitor performance, resolve barriers, and reinforce quality and productivity expectations.
• Coordinate with program leadership, NASA/customer stakeholders, and functional leads regarding status, priorities, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Prepare and present facilities-status, workload, performance, and resource reports.
• Ensure work is conducted in accordance with applicable NASA requirements, contract provisions, OSHA requirements, environmental regulations, and approved procedures.
• Oversee operational response to service interruptions, equipment failures, urgent facility needs, and other events requiring restoration of essential services or mitigation of hazards.
• Support operations involving power systems, electronic security, traffic signaling, fire and life-safety systems, HVAC and compressed air, elevators, plumbing, water and wastewater systems, stormwater infrastructure, structures, transportation infrastructure, heavy equipment, and control/monitoring systems.
• Coordinate operational readiness and support for special events or launch-related requirements, including watch-standing where assigned.
• Use performance metrics and trend analysis to identify risks, improve reliability and responsiveness, and reduce avoidable costs.
• Use Maximo or comparable work management tools to support work control, maintenance tracking, reporting, and performance management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Safe, compliant, reliable, and timely execution of maintenance and operations services.
• Effective work control, planning, scheduling, budgeting, and resource management.
• Technical team leadership, productivity, service quality, and customer responsiveness.
• Accurate reporting of facilities status, performance metrics, risks, and corrective actions.
• Compliance with applicable safety, environmental, contract, and staffing requirements.

Job Requirements

Mandatory:

• At least 15 years of relevant experience in maintenance operations management, including leadership of technical teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field.
• Security clearance eligibility.

Preferred:

• PMP certification.
• NASA or Kennedy Space Center experience.
• Experience with Maximo or a comparable computerized maintenance management/work management system.
• Experience leading complex, multi-site facilities or infrastructure maintenance programs and managing operational performance metrics.

Disclosures

Chugach Government Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, disability, genetic factors, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Chugach Government Solutions supports pay transparency and is committed to equitable and competitive compensation practices. Compensation for this role will be determined based on factors including job responsibilities, experience, skills, internal equity, geographic location, and applicable contract requirements. Where required by law, compensation ranges will be provided to candidates during the hiring process.

Chugach will provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with Chugach Government Solutions or any of its subsidiaries, please email [e-mail].

Chugach Government Solutions supports pay transparency and is committed to equitable and competitive compensation practices. Compensation for this role will be determined based on factors including job responsibilities, experience, skills, internal equity, geographic location, and applicable contract requirements. Where required by law, compensation ranges will be provided to candidates during the hiring process.

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