Head of Manufacturing Infrastructure
$183,000–$233,000 year
On-siteCentennial, Colorado, United States
Job Summary
Own the full lifecycle of site acquisition, permitting, design, and construction for factories, test sites, and future campuses, including utility strategy for power, gas, water, and data. Define site strategy and drive alignment with program leadership, challenging requirements before execution to surface bottlenecks and propose alternatives. Manage general contractors, subcontractors, and vendors, evaluating whether capabilities should stay external, move in-house, or be acquired. Navigate local politics and regulatory relationships as a first-person owner, clearing paths with county commissioners and planning departments. Build the creative vision for Boom's physical footprint and lead a flat, high-output team. This role requires direct accountability for construction programs in the $10M–$100M+ range and first-person experience navigating permitting and utility negotiations.
Required Qualifications
- A track record of building large-scale physical infrastructure — factories, launch sites, substations, industrial facilities — from greenfield or near-greenfield under real time and cost pressure.
- Direct accountability for construction programs in the $10M–$100M+ range.
- First-person experience navigating permitting, utility negotiations, and local politics — not managing someone who did it.
- An instinct for vertical integration. You've asked 'should we just own this?' and followed through on the answer.
- Scars from a build that was on fire and the instinct to move faster, not slower.
- You would rather be on the site than in a meeting about the site.
- When everyone else sees a wall, you see a design problem.
- You ask for forgiveness, not permission.
- Your first instinct when a subcontractor slips is not to update the schedule — it's to go figure out why and fix it.
Desired Qualifications
- You'll build America's most vertically-integrated aviation and energy company, down to pouring our own concrete for the factory where we will pour our own alloy to make our own blades for our own engine which powers our own airplane which will power our own airplane.
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