Deployment Site Lead

About Us
At Antares, our long-term mission is to make clean energy abundant from Earth to the Asteroid Belt. We’re fueled by the belief that advanced nuclear energy can strengthen our military, solve the climate crisis, elevate global living standards, and expand humanity's presence in outer space. To achieve our mission, we’re building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors that can be used terrestrially, underwater, and in space.
The Antares team hails from SpaceX, the White House, the Pentagon, the Department of Energy, MIT, Rigetti Computing, General Atomics, Relativity Space, Ursa Major, and National Laboratories like Idaho, Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, and Savannah River. Antares has raised over $600M in venture capital from top-tier investors and has hundreds of million-dollars on contract with the military services, NASA, and the Department of Energy.
About the Team
Antares Nuclear is developing and deploying advanced nuclear microreactor technology to provide highly reliable, resilient, and secure electricity for critical national-security infrastructure. As part of this effort, Antares is working with the Department of the Army to develop a microreactor power plant at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Antares is seeking a Site Lead to own on-the-ground execution of the Fort Bragg microreactor project. This is a senior technical and program-management role responsible for driving day-to-day progress on-site, navigating military construction processes, and maintaining the relationships with installation leadership and the local contractor base needed to deploy the project quickly and successfully.
The Site Lead will serve as Antares' principal on-site representative for all matters of schedule, technical readiness, and installation coordination – engaging directly and confidently with senior Army and installation leadership. This individual will work closely with Antares' North Carolina community and government affairs team to ensure execution progress and external commitments remain fully aligned
Roles and Responsibilities:
Program & Site Execution
- Own day-to-day program management and execution accountability for the Fort Bragg microreactor deployment, including schedule, technical milestones, and installation-level dependencies.
- Navigate on-base construction processes, approvals, and documentation requirements specific to Fort Bragg.
- Translate engineering and program requirements into actionable, installation-specific execution plans.
- Identify, vet, and manage relationships with local contractors capable of executing work quickly and reliably at Fort Bragg.
- Proactively identify bottlenecks and drive resolution across internal teams, installation personnel, contractors, and other stakeholders to keep the project on schedule.
- Military & Installation Relationships
- Build and maintain direct, credible relationships with Fort Bragg's Directorate of Public Works, installation leadership, and relevant Army stakeholders.
- Represent Antares with confidence and credibility in meetings with senior Army and installation leadership on technical readiness, schedule, and project status.
- Maintain deep, working fluency in how Fort Bragg and Army institutional processes function.
- Cross-Functional Coordination
- Align closely with Antares' Mission Engineering leadership on program schedule, requirements, and technical milestones.
- Work in close, frequent coordination with Antares' North Carolina State & Community Affairs, to ensure government and community commitments remain grounded in actual installation progress.
- Coordinate with Antares' broader Government Affairs team to stay aligned on messaging and strategy.
- Provide regular, concise status reporting to leadership on execution progress, risks, and near-term needs.
- Local Network Development
- Build and maintain a bench of trusted local contractors, tradespeople, and technical talent to support site execution needs as the project scales.
- Issues Management
- Identify emerging construction, permitting, contractor, or installation-relationship risks early, and coordinate resolution with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
- Maintain situational awareness of on-the-ground developments that could affect program schedule, military relationships, or community perception, and communicate proactively across relevant teams
Basic Qualifications:
- Demonstrated, specific familiarity with Fort Bragg and/or the U.S. Army — prior military service, prior engineering or installation command experience, or equivalent direct professional exposure to Fort Bragg.
- A technical and/or project-management background, such as engineering, construction management, construction, or complex technical program delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to engage credibly and confidently with senior military leadership, including general-officer-level officials, on technical and programmatic matters.
- Track record of working effectively with contractors and installation-level authorities on fast-turnaround, technically complex projects.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Prior military engineering command experience with direct exposure to Fort Bragg.
- Construction or real-estate development background with experience navigating permitting and large-project logistics.
- Existing professional or personal ties to the Fort Bragg installation community.
- Experience standing up program-management structure and governance from the ground up within a scaling organization.
Location
- The position will be based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, with travel as needed to other Antares locations
Culture
At Antares, we like to specifically tie each role to our founding document’s set of values–here are the top five cultural values we think you should believe at your core to be successful:
- Think in Systems - Energy and Defense are complex ecosystems with numerous stakeholders with competing priorities, conflicting policies, perverse incentives, and emergent and path-dependent properties. First principles thinking alone is insufficient. Think probabilistically and then take action. “If you want to be certain, then you are apt to be obsolete.” Over-optimizing the components often degrades the system
- Obsess over the End User - The customer and end user are often not the same. We will never build globally competitive commercial products if we lose sight of our end users and their entire interaction with the product life cycle
- Be Unconstrained by Convention - Our only limits are the laws of physics. Many, even experts, will say what we are working on is impossible. They said the same about SpaceX reusing rockets. Generationally impactful companies, by definition, must accomplish the seemingly impossible. If it were easy, it would have already been done. Never shy away from a solution because it has never been tried before, and never choose to do something because that's “how it's always been done”
- Go Where the Work Is - Never miss a chance to meet a customer, user, or stakeholder face to face, even if that means hopping on a plane. If you can’t make it, find a teammate who can channel your intentions and go in your place. Deep work can be done from anywhere, but we believe teams are built in person, and aim to maximize our time together
- Operate in the Grey - Embrace nuance in pursuit of truth. Question every fundamental assumption
Equal Opportunity
Antares is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, competence, and qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.
ITAR REQUIREMENTS
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/?id=ddtc_kb_article_page&sys_id=24d528fddbfc930044f9ff621f961987.

Employment type
FullTime

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