Business Operations Generalist - Contracts and Finance
Lowell, MI
Operations – Business Operations /
On-site
US Citizen or Permanent Resident
In-Person
Starts Immediately
Join us in building the Worlds’s Humanitarian Air Force. Orb is turning autonomous aircraft into infrastructure. We’re a small mission-driven team where your initiative, creativity, and dedication will be used to reach every village on the planet with power, logistics, and communications.
Your Role at Orb: Orb needs a key player to assist on the operations side of finance, DoD contracts, partner relations, customer engagement and more. Scale a hardware business with us and learn to run a business with a world class team from the inside out.
If you’re ready to take ownership, embrace complexity, and thrive in a role where your work truly matters, we’d love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assisting finance team with administrative and financial tasks.(Invoicing, budgeting, POs, reporting).
- Assist operations team with tracking and management of vendors and contractors
- Assist operations team with responses to contract opportunities (State of Work, Cost/Pricing)
- Assist chief of staff with human resource tasks to include benefit, hours, team reporting
- Assist Chief of Staff with team travel logistics
- Attend Stake Holder Events
- Represent the Orb brand, service to others through aviation, to customers and stakeholders.
What You'll Need:
- Resilience, critical thinking, communication and a commitment to transparency.
- Exceptional organizational and project management abilities with a focus on execution.
- Advanced in Excel, Word, Ect.
- Ability to obtain and maintaina Secret Security Clearance.
- A genuine curiosity and desire for continuous learning and professional growth.
- Unwavering integrity and a commitment to serving others with empathy and purpose.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a knack for translating ideas into action.
$65,000 - $75,000 a year
+ Additional options and incentives
About Orb Aerospace: Orb was started with the mission to bring aviation to the 80% of the world that’s never had it; turning autonomous aircraft into tools to decentralize infrastructure, connect continents, protect soldiers, provide for families, and run economies.“Less like the flying taxis, more like the flying cowboys,”Orb is at the intersection of manned and unmanned aviation, reindustrializing the Midwest, and building the future we know is possible and want to live in.
About Node One: Node One is a small team of engineers and operators who have dedicated their lives to solving some of the world’s hardest problems through a new kind of aviation. Orb’s live-work-fly R&D HQ. Node One is all about reducing the cycle time to design, build, and fly aircraft from years to months and building the systems and platforms we’ll use to reach every village on the planet.
We stand on the shoulders of giants. Their great work allows us to accomplish ours. If you’vebeen a rocket/airplane nerdand have a passion for designing, building, and flying airframes, autopilots, power systems, and embedded systems, or you love to push a new product through new manufacturing methods to a new market, come join the team at Node One and make history.
Orb Employees Are:
High Agency and Biased Towards Action
Have a History of Self-Starting, Pacing, and Finishing Projects
Thrive with Autonomy to Design New Solutions to Partially Defined Problems
Are Curious and Continue Learning
Have Integrity and a Desire to Serve Others
Standard Benefits Package:
Orb provides a monthly flat rate towards medical, dental, and vision
$500 flat rate for individuals; $850 flat rate for married/family
Medical, Vision, Dental, Short/Long Term Disability, and Group/Voluntary Life Insurance
Opt-In 401K Options (Pre-Tax or Roth) with a 3% Employer Match
Perks:
Support in Getting your Pilots License and Ratings
Support for Continuing Education
Annual Customer Demos all over the World
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
