Director, Construction Reactor Deployments

About Us

At Antares our long-term mission is to make clean energy abundant from Earth to the Asteroid Belt. Were fueled by the belief that advanced nuclear energy can strengthen our military solve the climate crisis elevate global living standards and expand humanitys presence in outer space. To achieve our mission were building mass-producible inherently safe deployable microreactors that can be used terrestrially underwater and in space.

Formed in 2023 the Antares team hails from SpaceX The White House MIT Rigetti Computing The Air Force General Atomics Relativity Space Ursa Major and National Laboratories like Los Alamos Idaho and Oak Ridge. Antares has raised over $600M in venture capital from top-tier investors and has over $13M in government funding.

About Us

At Antares our long-term mission is to make clean energy abundant from Earth to the Asteroid Belt. Were fueled by the belief that advanced nuclear energy can strengthen our military solve the climate crisis elevate global living standards and expand humanitys presence in outer space. To achieve our mission were building mass-producible inherently safe deployable microreactors that can be used terrestrially underwater and in space.

Formed in 2023 the Antares team hails from SpaceX The White House MIT Rigetti Computing The Air Force General Atomics Relativity Space Ursa Major and National Laboratories like Los Alamos Idaho and Oak Ridge. Antares has raised over $130M in venture capital from top-tier investors and has over $13M in government funding.

About the Team

The Reactor Deployments team is responsible for delivering Antares systems from factory to field. We operate at the intersection of engineering construction and operationsensuring each deployment site is designed built and commissioned to the highest standards.

This team partners closely with design engineering manufacturing regulatory and external stakeholders to bring first-of-a-kind energy infrastructure online.

Roles and Responsibilities:

As Director of Construction at Antares you will lead the planning and execution of all site development and construction activities for reactor deployments. You will own the end-to-end construction strategyfrom early site design input through field execution.

You will serve as the critical bridge between engineering and the field ensuring designs are constructible and projects are delivered safely on schedule and at high quality. You will be responsible for driving cost efficiency and ensuring timely project completion to meet Antares aggressive deployment timelines.

You will also build and lead the construction function managing contractors developing processes and scaling Antares deployment capabilities.

• Own construction strategy and execution for all reactor deployment sites

• Drive projects to completion on aggressive timelines while maintaining safety and quality standards

• Minimize cost and schedule through strong planning contractor management and execution discipline

• Partner with design engineering to ensure site requirements constructability and field constraints are incorporated early

• Establish construction standards processes and best practices across deployments

• Enable flexible deployments to meet customer needs including above grade and below grade construction

• Lead budgeting scheduling and cost control across multiple concurrent projects

• Oversee civil EPC and construction subcontractors holding them accountable to performance cost and schedule

• Build and manage relationships with site owners utilities and local stakeholders

• Ensure compliance with safety environmental and regulatory requirements

• Identify and resolve construction risks and execution challenges in real time

• Support permitting site selection and pre-construction development efforts

• Build and scale a high-performing internal construction and field operations team

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in construction management infrastructure delivery or large-scale project execution

• Experience managing contractors or subcontractors across multiple sites

• Strong understanding of civil works site development and construction systems

• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and drive design-for-construction decisions

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Demonstrated leadership experience building or managing teams

• Proven track record delivering complex projects on schedule and within budget

• Experience in energy industrial or mission-critical construction (e.g. power plants data centers defense infrastructure)

• Direct experience with nuclear site construction or nuclear-adjacent infrastructure

• Familiarity with DOE DoD NRC or other regulated project environments

• Experience with first-of-a-kind (FOAK) or highly technical projects

• Background bridging design engineering and field execution

• Experience scaling construction operations in a high-growth environment

Additional Requirements:

• Ability to travel to sites as needed

Location

• We are located in Torrance CA in a 322000 square foot brand new facility featuring large open spaces for team collaboration R&D and production as well as easy access to the 405 105 and 110 freeways. Our facility is in the heart of Los Angeles vibrant emerging tech ecosystem alongside many other high growth startups and enterprises.

Culture

At Antares we like to specifically tie each role to our founding documents set of valueshere 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 thats how its 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 cant 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.

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.

Culture

At Antares we like to specifically tie each role to our founding documents set of valueshere 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 thats how its 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 cant 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.

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.

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