Operations & Maintenance; O&M Director - NSS

About Us

Nova Space Solutions, LLC (NSS) is a joint venture between Wolf Creek Federal Services, Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chugach Government Solutions, LLC) and Amentum Technology, Inc. When you join NSS, you also become a part of a proud legacy of supporting missions while sustaining culture.

The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, Chugach Government Solutions, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields – each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.

Empowering employees is a part of our core, and that focus is one of the ways we build and foster high-performing teams. We empower our employees through competitive compensation and benefits package, professional growth opportunities, truthful communication, and more!

If you are looking for an opportunity to serve something bigger than yourself; if you want your day job to be one that creates meaningful value; if you are looking for an environment that highly values employees and respects individual differences – then Nova Space Solutions may be the right fit for you!

Nova Space Solutions (NSS) is seeking an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Director to provide strategic leadership for facility operations, maintenance, sustainment, restoration, modernization, and repair activities supporting NASA at Stennis Space Center (SSC) and Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF). The O&M Director will lead a diverse organization of skilled trades, supervisors, and support personnel while driving operational excellence, continuous improvement, asset reliability, and customer satisfaction.

This leader will foster a culture of safety, accountability, innovation, collaboration, and employee engagement while ensuring mission-critical work is executed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with contractual requirements.

Essential

Job Duties:

• Develop and implement NSS operational policies and procedures.
• Develop and execute strategic business and operational plans in partnership with executive leadership.
• Provide situational awareness and operational updates regarding issues affecting safety, mission execution, or contract performance.
• Ensure financial performance through effective budget management, cost control, resource planning, and contract execution.
• Develop maintenance strategies that improve preventive maintenance (PM), predictive maintenance (PdM), asset reliability, and mission readiness.
• Coordinate maintenance, repair, sustainment, modernization, and construction activities across multiple functional organizations.
• Monitor contract performance metrics and implement corrective actions as necessary to achieve operational objectives.
• Establish expectations for management field presence to ensure safe and efficient work execution.
• Evaluate business processes and implement innovative solutions that improve organizational performance and customer service.
• Prepare and present operational briefings, reports, and performance metrics to executive leadership and
• NASA customers.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic leadership for all Operations & Maintenance (O&M) functions supporting NASA operations at SSC and MAF.
• Develop and implement operational strategies, policies, and procedures that support contract performance, mission readiness, and organizational objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that improve productivity, increase wrench time, optimize asset reliability, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction.
• Develop, monitor, and communicate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure operational effectiveness, safety, financial performance, and customer satisfaction.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with NASA customers, tenants, subcontractors, and stakeholders to ensure mission requirements are consistently met or exceeded.
• Promote cross-functional collaboration…