Sr. IT Asset Manager

Lanteris Space LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intuitive Machines, is hiring an experienced Sr. IT Asset Manager to own the end-to-end lifecycle of IT hardware equipment across the organization. This role is based onsite in our Mountain View, CA office.  This is an individual contributor role (non-people-manager) responsible for hardware deployment, retrieval, onboarding, lifecycle tracking, and retirement/disposal, ensuring assets are properly provisioned, tracked, maintained, and decommissioned in accordance with company policy and audit requirements.

Intuitive Machines is a leading space infrastructure company that builds spacecraft, connects networks, and operates infrastructure-as-a-service for commercial, civil, and national security customers. With a proven track record across the space domain, the Company, through organic growth and portfolio expansion, has built over 300 spacecraft, delivered over 260 kilograms of payload to the lunar surface, and provided precision navigation expertise that has guided spacecraft across our solar system.
** Responsibilities:*
* · Manage the full lifecycle of IT hardware assets, including procurement intake, deployment, retrieval, redeployment, and retirement/disposal   
· Maintain accurate and complete hardware asset records in the CMDB/Asset Management system, including ownership, location, status, and configuration data   
· Coordinate hardware deployment for new hires, onboarding, and new site/facility stand-ups, ensuring equipment is staged, imaged, and delivered on schedule   
· Coordinate hardware retrieval during employee offboarding, role changes, and equipment refresh cycles   
· Perform regular physical inventory audits and reconcile discrepancies between physical assets and CMDB records   
· Track asset warranty status, maintenance agreements, and end-of-life/end-of-support dates to proactively plan refresh and replacement cycles   
· Develop and maintain hardware lifecycle policies, procedures, and standard work instructions (receiving, tagging, deployment, retrieval, storage, disposal)   
· Manage secure data sanitization and compliant disposal/recycling of retired hardware, including documentation and chain-of-custody records   
· Partner with Procurement to forecast hardware needs, manage reorder points, and maintain appropriate spares/buffer stock   
· Partner with Service Desk and IT Operations to ensure asset data supports incident, request, and change management processes   
· Manage relationships with hardware vendors and asset disposition/recycling partners, including performance tracking and issue resolution   
· Support IT audits, compliance reviews, and security assessments related to hardware asset tracking and disposal   
· Identify opportunities to improve asset tracking accuracy, reduce loss/shrinkage, and streamline deployment/retrieval workflows   
· Lead IT hardware lifecycle forecasting and budget planning in partnership with IT Operations leadership   
· Provide regular reporting on asset inventory levels, lifecycle status, utilization, and disposal metrics to IT leadership   
· Support IT hardware readiness for new facilities, including initial asset onboarding into the CMDB and coordination of deployment logistics   
· Participate in on-call or after-hours support as needed for critical hardware deployment or incident-related asset needs
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* Minimum Requirements:

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* · Must be a US Citizen or permanent resident   
· Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Supply Chain, or related field (four additional years of relevant experience may be substituted for a degree)   
· Minimum of 10  years of experience in IT asset management, hardware lifecycle management, or IT operations   
· Experience with Service Now, Jira…