Operations Lead

US Health Partners, LLC; Albuquerque (NM); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

Relocation assistance

Flexible time off

2 weeks of PTO at year end

Leave policies and parental leave

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Fuse in Albuquerque seeks a hands-on site operations leader to run the Albuquerque site end-to-end, including people, schedule, facilities, safety, and customer coordination. You will build operating cadence, processes, and a team to scale, manage staffing, budget, vendors, and ensure safe, compliant operations while coordinating with technical and business groups.

Relentless about detail, ownership, and urgency, you will drive risk mitigation and serve as primary contact for audits and external

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building or running operations in a fast-moving startup or complex industrial environment.
• Proven ability to create people, processes, and systems where gaps exist.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with hands-on decision making and problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for day-to-day operations and performance of the Albuquerque site.
• Build operating cadence, processes, and team needed to scale the site.
• Coordinate shot campaign scheduling across technical and business teams and remove obstacles.
• Oversee staffing, budget, vendors, contractors, maintenance, and facilities.
• Identify problems early and drive resolution rather than waiting for direction.
• Serve as primary contact for customers, site visits, audits, inspections, and external stakeholders.
• Support contract execution and government customer activity at the site.
• Manage risks across safety, schedule, budget, and staffing with clear mitigation recommendations.
• Create practical operating systems for maintenance, safety, shift handoffs, and visitors.

Skills

Operations management

Startup experience

People leadership

Safety compliance

Budgeting

Vendor management

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic planning

Job description

About Fuse

We are building one of the most potentially consequential companies of the century. Our mission is to accelerate the world's transition to fusion energy while safeguarding humankind. This is not a normal company. This is not a normal job. We are committed for the long term to win.

About the Role

Albuquerque is one of Fuse's radiation effects testing site. You'll be responsible for the site end to end: people, schedule, facility, safety, and the coordination between technical and operational teams alongside our customers. Your mission is to make sure the generators run, the site stays safe and compliant, customers love to visit our facility.This is not a traditional facility-management role. We need an entrepreneurial operator who can take responsibility for the site end to end, identify what is missing, and build what is needed to make it work.

What We Value

• Obsess about the details - sloppy work costs us later, so do it right the first time.

• Care - pick up the trash. Do things no one asks you to do. Go the extra mile because you care.

• Act with urgency - every hour matters more than it feels like it does.

• Be responsible for the outcome, not just the task; if it is not working, it remains your problem until it is fixed.

• Assume good intent - disagree openly, then commit fully once a call is made.

Core Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for day-to-day operations and performance of the Albuquerque site.

• Build the operating cadence, processes, and team needed to scale the site.

• Coordinate shot campaign scheduling across technical and business teams and remove obstacles that put execution at risk.

• Take responsibility for site staffing, budget, vendors, contractors, maintenance, and facility needs.

• Identify problems early and drive them to resolution rather than waiting for direction.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for customers, site visits, audits, inspections, and other external stakeholders.

• Support Fuse Federal contract execution and government customer activity at the site.

• Manage risks across safety, schedule, budget, and staffing with clear recommendations and responsibility to mitigate - not just status updates.

• Build practical operating systems around maintenance, safety, shift handoffs, visitors, and site readiness that allow Albuquerque to scale without unnecessary bureaucracy.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building or running operations in a fast-moving startup, hardware, manufacturing, industrial, or similarly complex environment.

• Demonstrated track record taking ambiguous or underbuilt operations and creating the people, processes, and systems needed to make them work.

• Entrepreneurial operating mindset - resourceful, hands-on, comfortable making decisions with incomplete information, and willing to solve problems outside a narrowly defined role.

• Experience hiring, developing, and holding teams accountable for results.

• Strong judgment and ability to prioritize when multiple high-stakes problems compete for attention.

• High personal accountability and operating discipline.

• Calm and decisive under pressure.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across technical teams, business teams, customers, and executive leadership.

• Willingness to be based in Albuquerque, NM full-time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or scaling a new site, business unit, manufacturing operation, or technical operation from an early stage.

• Background in a high-accountability environment where safety, readiness, and execution matter.

• Experience in advanced manufacturing, aerospace, defense, energy, hardware, or another technically complex industry.

• Experience supporting DoD/DOE customers or government contract execution.

Additional Requirements

• This is not a remote position and will require relocation if not already local to Fuse's Albuquerque, NM facility.

• Position requires the ability to work extended hours and weekends when needed.

• Position may require some business travel to other Fuse facilities.

Security Clearance

This role may require the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Relocation assistance for roles that require it.

• Flexible time off. Take what you need, no accrual tracking.

• 2 weeks of paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs).

• Supportive leave of absence policies.

• Paid leave for new parents.

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Equal Opportunity

Fuse is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Fuse is governed on the basis of merit, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, ancestry, immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.