Head of Facilities
- Compensation
- $150K–$200K / hr
- Location
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years of experience in facilities, construction, industrial infrastructure, facilities engineering, manufacturing operations, or a closely related field.
- Experience owning significant facility buildouts, expansions, relocations, test-site development, or infrastructure projects in a technically demanding environment such as aerospace, defense, propulsi
- Strong practical understanding of industrial building infrastructure and facility development, including electrical power, HVAC, utilities, building systems, permitting, inspections, and construction.
- Demonstrated experience navigating permits, regulations, and approval processes for technically complex facilities. Experience with explosives, energetic materials, hazardous materials, or similarly r
- Demonstrated experience developing, modifying, or operating facilities subject to U.S. government security requirements, including classified or cleared work environments, physical security requiremen
- Strong judgment under ambiguity. You can separate the real requirement from assumptions and turn incomplete engineering or operational needs into a practical solution.
- Strong commercial and execution judgment across scopes of work, budgets, schedules, contractor selection, negotiations, and project delivery.
- A hands-on operating style. You actively seek primary information and are comfortable moving between executive-level decisions, regulatory and security discussions, contractor coordination, and physic
- U.S. citizenship is required due to the nature of GITAI’s work with U.S. government customers and programs. This role may require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearanc
Full description
Who We Are
GITAI is a vertically integrated space and defense company building the next generation of hardware for low-Earth-orbit missions.
At our core is the space robotics technology that has defined GITAI from the beginning. A small, highly capable engineering team applies that foundation across satellite buses, in-orbit servicing robotics, and mission hardware for applications such as Earth observation. Today, a major focus of our work is supporting U.S. national security missions, particularly through proliferated LEO satellite constellations and other next-generation space systems.
We design, build, integrate, and test much of our hardware in-house. Electrical, mechanical, software, manufacturing, integration, and test teams work closely together, allowing a small team to own complete systems rather than isolated components. This vertical integration helps us move quickly, learn directly from hardware, and shorten the path from architecture to a working system.
We are still early. The systems, the company, and the market are all being built at the same time. Requirements change, technical problems are often ambiguous, and many answers do not yet exist. We are looking for exceptional engineers and operators who want broad ownership, can work across disciplines, and are willing to stay close to the hardware until the mission succeeds.
Your Mission
As Head of Facilities, you will build the physical foundation for GITAI’s next stage of growth, owning the infrastructure that enables us to scale engineering, manufacturing, integration, and testing across our offices, manufacturing environments, remote test sites, and facilities supporting U.S. government programs. This is initially a senior individual-contributor role with no direct reports. You will work directly with Engineering and Operations leadership and serve as the central owner across internal teams, contractors, consultants, landlords, utilities, regulatory authorities, government stakeholders, and security teams. Many of the environments GITAI needs do not yet exist, and requirements will often be incomplete or based on assumptions. You will seek primary information yourself, get close to the hardware and the people doing the work, identify the real constraint, and determine what should actually be built. You will turn those needs into working physical environments, making practical decisions across facilities, equipment, utilities, layout, permitting, security, cost, and schedule. The work will include technically demanding and highly regulated environments involving explosives, energetic and hazardous materials, and U.S. government security requirements. As GITAI grows, you may eventually build a facilities team, but this will remain a hands-on role. Your mission is to build the launchpad that enables GITAI’s engineers to move faster, test more, solve harder problems, and deliver their best work.