Manager, IT Site Lead

About the Role:

Hadrian is building a new precision manufacturing facility in Cherokee, Alabama. We're looking for an IT Site Lead to own day-to-day IT operations at F4 and serve as the face of IT for the entire site. This is a hands-on role with real ownership: you'll manage endpoints, support facility employees and production staff, maintain local infrastructure, serve as the point person for day-2 vendors, and help visiting employees from other sites resolve issues while they're on-site.

You'll report to the Director of IT and work closely with a central team covering infrastructure, cybersecurity, network, and systems functions across all Hadrian sites.

What You'll Do:

Site Operations:

• Own all on-site IT support for facility employees and production staff
• Manage device lifecycle using Hadrian's asset management and MDM tools
• Manage your ticket queue in Jira Service Management and drive issues to resolution
• Maintain local network and infrastructure health; escalate to central infrastructure teams as needed
• Serve as the on-call escalation point for F4 on-site support needs; local team headcount is expected to grow as the facility scales

Construction Support:

• Support the IT buildout of the F4 facility in partnership with the Factory Deployment IT Lead and central IT teams
• Coordinate with facilities and construction on-site during construction to confirm electrical and low-voltage vendors are placing infrastructure correctly, and provide regular status updates
• Receive, stage, and deploy endpoint hardware, peripherals, and AV/conferencing equipment

Onboarding, Offboarding, and Staffing:

• Own IT onboarding and offboarding for all employees at the site: hardware setup/retrieval, account provisioning/deprovisioning, access grants, and Day 1 readiness
• Serve as the on-site point of contact for IT questions and walkthroughs for new hires
• Hire, train, and lead a local IT team as the facility scales

Security and Compliance:

• Enforce Hadrian's security tooling and policies on-site: EDR, MDM, and IAM
• Support CMMC Level 2 compliance requirements for CUI handling at the facility
• Coordinate with central IT and InfoSec on incidents, vulnerability remediation, and compliance reviews

Vendor and Asset Management:

• Manage local vendor relationships, hardware maintenance contracts, and ISP coordination
• Maintain accurate asset inventory for all on-site IT equipment
• Manage shipping and receiving of IT and infrastructure materials (switches, WAPs, and similar equipment)

What We're Looking For:

• High degree of independence and accountability; this role works without a local IT manager to lean on and needs to be self-reliant, self-driven, and proactive rather than reactive
• High degree of ownership; drives issues to resolution without waiting to be asked
• Strong networking fundamentals: LAN/WAN, VLANs, firewall administration, Wi-Fi
• Endpoint management experience with Intune, Mosyle, or FleetDM
• Familiarity with Okta for identity and access management
• Experience owning employee IT onboarding end to end
• Comfortable operating as a remote extension of a distributed team
• Manufacturing or industrial environment experience strongly preferred
• CMMC, ITAR, and CUI handling experience a plus

Benefits for Full-time Employees:

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
• 401k
• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need
• Flexible vacation policy
• Equity

ITAR Requirements:

To conform to U.S. Government space 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.

Use of AI in Hiring:

Hadrian uses AI-assisted tools in recruiting and hiring processes to help the team work more efficiently. These tools support the team and are not used to make hiring decisions. Candidate evaluations and hiring decisions are performed by humans. If an interview will be recorded, candidates will be notified in advance and may opt out at any time with no impact on their candidacy.

Hadrian Is An Equal Opportunity Employer:

It is the Company's policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. The Company does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of characteristics protected by local, state, or federal laws and provides reasonable accommodations when necessary.