Head of Manufacturing Infrastructure

Head of Manufacturing Infrastructure You'll be directly responsible for the rapid and innovative build-out of Boom's physical infrastructure, including building engine and airplane Superfactories and test sites. At most companies, this is called a facilities job and you hire a bunch of outsourced real estate and construction contractors. It's a low-status non-strategic role. Everything costs a ton and progresses glacially. At Boom, our physical infrastructure is a first class citizen. You will push the envelope technically and politically on building amazing infrastructure quickly and efficiently. We take our factories as seriously as our engines and airplanes. 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. What you'll do: Own the full lifecycle of site acquisition, permitting, design, and construction for factories, test sites, and future campuses. If it gets built, you own it. Define the site strategy — what gets built where, in what order, and to what specification — and drive alignment with program and leadership. Challenge requirements before executing them. If a program constraint is creating an infrastructure bottleneck, you surface it and propose alternatives. Nothing is sacred. Manage GCs, subcontractors, and construction vendors — and evaluate on a rolling basis whether key capabilities should stay external, move in-house, or be acquired outright. Own utility strategy: power substations, natural gas, water, data. If the utility doesn't exist, evaluate whether Boom should build it. Navigate local politics, permitting, and regulatory relationships as a first-person owner — not a delegator. County commissioners, planning departments, utility providers. You clear the path. Treat capital as a tool. Know when to spend aggressively to unlock disproportionate value, and when to hold the line. Structure incentives that make contractors want to hit your timeline as much as you do. Build the creative vision for how Boom constructs its physical footprint — not just executing a plan someone else wrote, but authoring one that no one has seen before. Lead and develop a flat, high-output team. Set the standard and raise the ceiling. You probably have: 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 will thrive here if: 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. We are not the right place for facilities managers, corporate real estate professionals, or operations leaders whose instinct is to outsource the hard parts. We are exactly the right place for someone who has built things that looked impossible on paper — and wants to do that at a company building something that matters. Compensation The Base Salary Range for this position is $183,000 - $233,000 per year. Actual salaries will vary based on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Boom’s total rewards package for employees. Other rewards may include long term incentives/equity, a flexible PTO policy, and many other progressive benefits. There is no