Project Manager, Facilities Operations - Memphis at xAI

Requirements

Responsibilities

• Act as the facilities operations project representative for the Southaven and Memphis sites, managing relationships with contractors, vendors, partners, and internal stakeholders.
• Oversee end-to-end execution of facilities operations projects, from scoping and planning through installation, commissioning, and handover into day-to-day operations.
• Develop, plan, and execute site improvement, retrofit, and activation projects in accordance with overall business objectives and strategy, including mechanical/HVAC, electrical, compressed air, plumbing, and related campus systems.
• Coordinate multiple vendors and trade partners, ensuring seamless communication between field teams, facilities supervisors, technicians, engineering disciplines, and technical stakeholders.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks to ensure high-quality delivery, safety, schedule adherence, and operational readiness on a live campus.
• Drive project progress, resolving roadblocks and keeping complex, multi-phase timelines on track while minimizing disruption to ongoing operations.
• Create and align facilities project schedules and deliverables with SpaceXAI’s broader infrastructure and AI supercomputing goals through cross-functional collaboration.
• Partner with construction, engineering, and commissioning teams to take work from build into operations and to resolve technical issues efficiently.
• Deliver regular updates using well-designed KPIs, dashboards, and reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Perform quantity take-offs, field verifications, and progress monitoring to support accurate forecasting and reporting.
• Manage change orders, identifying value-engineered solutions to minimize unnecessary changes and control costs.
• Manage vendor and contractor finances; work with SpaceXAI buyers and accounts payable to assure accounts are maintained.
• Lead site safety initiatives on facilities project work, knowing and applying SpaceXAI safety procedures, observing contractor work, and allowing no work to be performed when conditions are considered unsafe.
• Know and understand mechanical and facilities equipment such as chilled water systems, boilers, VFDs, pumps, PLCs, condensers, split systems, air compressors, dust collectors, backflow preventers, and related systems in order to scope, sequence, and accept project work.
• Adapt to evolving needs, supporting cross-functional partners as required, regardless of original job scope

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