Why Castelion, Why Now
Castelion is moving incredibly fast to develop and deliver advanced defense systems at a time when execution matters more than ever. We believe focus, ownership, and excellence are decisive advantages - and we're building a world-class team to turn bold ideas into real capability.
This is a rare opportunity to join at an early stage, where you'll have significant ownership, collaborate with exceptional teammates, and make a direct, measurable impact on our mission and the future of the company - regardless of your function.
Dispatcher
As a Dispatcher, you will coordinate and support the safe movement of cargo between Castelion facilities, vendors, test sites, and external partners. You will help assign and dispatch drivers and equipment between local and regional sites while maintaining a strict commitment to safety and security in accordance with applicable federal and state regulatory standards.
This role requires strong attention to detail, sound judgment, a high degree of ownership, and the ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, high-hazard production environment.
Responsibilities
- Manage incoming service requests, monitor routes, and ensure timely communication between customers, field personnel, and supervisors.
- Receive and prioritize calls, route resources, track progress, maintain logs, and resolve service issues.
- Coordinate the transportation of hazardous materials, energetic materials, chemicals, rocket motor components, production hardware, tooling, and other mission-critical cargo between Castelion facilities, vendors, test sites, and external partners.
- Verify and ensure drivers and equipment comply with applicable hours-of-service requirements, vehicle weight limits, routing restrictions, cargo securement standards, and hazardous materials transportation regulations.
- Coordinate closely with Shipping & Receiving, Inventory, Engineering, Production, and other Operations teams to support time-sensitive material movements.
- Follow applicable emergency response procedures in the event of a spill, vehicle incident, or transportation emergency.
- When not actively involved in dispatching, you will support Shipping & Receiving and Materials operations, including shipment preparation, packaging, loading and unloading, material movement, and other logistics activities.
- Adapt to changing priorities between scheduled transportation loads and urgent, mission-driven logistics requirements as company priorities evolve.
- Maintain urgency without compromising discipline. Changing priorities must never compromise safety, traceability, or accountability.
Basic Qualifications
- 3 years of experience working with hazardous materials in a shipping, receiving, transportation, or material-handling environment.
- Working knowledge of DOT Hazardous Materials Regulations (49 CFR Parts 100–185).
- Ability to complete and maintain required DOT hazardous materials employee training, including general awareness, function-specific, safety, security awareness, and other training applicable to assigned job duties.
- Working knowledge of applicable Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR), including driver qualification, vehicle inspection, hours-of-service, cargo securement, and hazardous materials transportation requirements.
- Ability to read and understand shipping papers, markings, labels, placards, emergency response information, and other required hazardous materials documentation.
- Experience operating forklifts, pallet jacks, and other material-handling equipment.
- Ability to perform physical work, including lifting and moving materials weighing 25–50 lbs.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to safety, particularly when working around hazardous or energetic materials.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and exercise sound judgment in the field.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to coordinate across multiple teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Flexibility to work overtime, accommodate changing schedules, and support occasional extended or regional routes as operational requirements dictate.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued security clearance. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
- Ability to monitor and track routes and shipments.
- Ability to coordinate and communicate with appropriate personnel to resolve issues using calm, clear, and decisive judgment.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 5 years of experience working with hazardous materials in a shipping, receiving, transportation, or material-handling environment.
- Experience in the movement of Class 1 explosives, energetic materials, rocket motors, propellant, or ordnance.
- Experience in the movement of Division 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3 explosives.
- Experience with DOT-regulated hazardous materials transportation and strong familiarity with 49 CFR Parts 100–185.
- Experience packaging, marking, labeling, placarding, documenting, and securing hazardous materials shipments.
- Experience with hazardous waste transportation and applicable Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) requirements.
- Experience coordinating and moving commercial vehicles, equipment, and loads in local and regional transportation environments.
- Experience with warehouse management systems (WMS).
- Experience working in aerospace, defense, military, advanced manufacturing, or other high-hazard environments.
- Active U.S. government security clearance.
Castelion offers a generous benefits package. Please refer to the bottom of our Careers page for more details.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Additional Eligibility Requirements
This position may require access to classified information or restricted U.S. Government sites, systems, or information, as determined by the Company and/or applicable U.S. Government requirements. If the position is so designated, your employment in the role may be contingent upon your ability to obtain and maintain the required U.S. Government security clearance or other government authorization, and to satisfy any citizenship or other eligibility requirements imposed by applicable law, regulation, executive order, or government contract requirements. You will be notified if and when such requirements apply.
Affirmative Action/EEO Statement
Castelion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Castelion is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and hiring process. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, participate in the interview process, or otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact [email protected]. Requests for accommodation will be considered on an individual basis and handled in accordance with applicable law.
Castelion is committed to fostering a workplace where employment decisions are based on qualifications, business needs, and the ability to perform the essential functions of the role, with or without reasonable accommodation.
EAR/ITAR Requirements
This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.