Site Director

The Exploration Company
Munich
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Executive & General ManagementExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Decision-making","Coaching","Teamwork"]

Site Director leads and ensures safe, compliant, and efficient operations across Munich-based facilities for The Exploration Company. Oversees multi-disciplinary site/test-site operations, maintenance, security, EHS compliance, vendor management, budgeting, and coordination of logistics, ensuring timely project delivery while maintaining high safety and quality standards in a high-hazard environment.

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The Exploration Company
The Exploration Company
6 months ago

Site Director

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Job Summary

Site Director leads and ensures safe, compliant, and efficient operations across Munich-based facilities for The Exploration Company. Oversees multi-disciplinary site/test-site operations, maintenance, security, EHS compliance, vendor management, budgeting, and coordination of logistics, ensuring timely project delivery while maintaining high safety and quality standards in a high-hazard environment.
Location: Munich
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead day-to-day test site operations: reception, goods-in/out, utilities, janitorial, waste, test site activities (together with the site manager and logistics responsible).
  • •Plan and execute preventive and corrective maintenance; manage work orders, spares, and service contracts to keep critical utilities running.
  • •Run office/lab/test-area fit-outs and moves: contractor pre-qualification, risk assessments, permit-to-work (PTW), and safe commissioning in occupied areas.
  • •Manage leases and landlord relationships; track obligations, service charges, and issues to resolution.
  • •Coordinate inbound/outbound logistics, including dangerous goods with certified partners; ensure yard/dock safety and traffic plans.

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years leading multi-disciplinary site or test-site operations in Germany (industrial, aerospace, or high-hazard environments).
  • •Proven experience planning and executing propulsion/engine or high-energy tests (stand allocation, crew rostering, TRR/DR cadence, anomaly management).
  • •Strong knowledge of German EHS and DREAL environmental regulations (particularly with ICPE sites) and practical experience with contractor controls in hazardous operations.
  • •Comfortable hands-on during test campaigns; disciplined communication and decision-making under time pressure.
  • •Familiarity with cryogenic and high-pressure fluid systems, instrumentation/DAQ, and interlock/safing concepts.
Experience:5+ yearsSpaceAerospaceIndustrialHigh-hazardMaintenanceLogistics
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationDecision-makingCoachingTeamwork
Languages:GermanEnglish
Tech Stack:CMMSMS 365SharePointISO 9001/9100EHS systems

Company Brief

The Exploration Company
Designs and develops reusable crewed and cargo spacecraft for low Earth orbit missions. The company builds orbital transfer and return vehicles to enable routine transportation, research, and commercial services in space.
Industry: Space Technology
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Headquarters: Munich, Germany
Founded: 2018
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