Site Operations Lead — Albuquerque Fusion Facility

Fusion Energy Base; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Relocation assistance

Flexible time off

2 weeks paid time off at year end

Leave for new parents

Supportive leave of absence policies

Job summary

Fuse, based in Albuquerque, NM, seeks an entrepreneurial operations leader to run the Albuquerque site end-to-end. You will own day-to-day operations, safety, scheduling, staffing, budgets, and coordination between technical and business teams, ensuring customers can visit and contracts progress smoothly.

This role demands hands-on problem solving, fast decision making, and the ability to build scalable processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building or running operations in a fast-moving startup, hardware, manufacturing, industrial, or similarly complex environment.
• Track record turning ambiguous or underbuilt operations into functional people, processes, and systems.
• Entrepreneurial operating mindset—resourceful, hands-on, decisive with incomplete information.
• Experience hiring, developing, and holding teams accountable for results.
• Strong judgment and ability to prioritize when high-stakes problems compete for attention.
• High personal accountability and operating discipline.
• Calm and decisive under pressure.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across technical, business teams, customers, and leadership.
• Willingness to be based in Albuquerque, NM full-time.

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.

Skills

Operations leadership

Startup/fast-moving environment

Cross-functional collaboration

Decision making under pressure

People management

Safety and compliance awareness

Communication skills

On-site leadership in Albuquerque

Job description

Fuse, based in Albuquerque, NM, seeks an entrepreneurial operations leader to run the Albuquerque site end-to-end. You will own day-to-day operations, safety, scheduling, staffing, budgets, and coordination between technical and business teams, ensuring customers can visit and contracts progress smoothly.

This role demands hands-on problem solving, fast decision making, and the ability to build scalable processes.