Fiber Superintendent

Fiber Superintendent

As a Fiber Superintendent at SpacexAI's Memphis data center, you'll take charge, overseeing the coordination and supervision of fiber optic cabling installation, modification, and splicing. Working onsite with passionate, driven teams, you'll tackle hands-on challenges to ensure our network infrastructure is robust and reliable in a fast-paced tech environment. Expect to streamline processes, manage complex projects, and keep connectivity seamless to power xAI's mission of accelerating human scientific discovery through AI.

This is an in-person role based in Memphis, Tennessee, with approximately 20% travel required.

Responsibilities include managing and scheduling employees, contractors, and subcontractors to ensure timely completion of projects, ensuring that contractors and subcontractors are fully executing and complying with their contracted scope of work, ensuring quality of work by crews, completing projects on time and under budget, maintaining daily written log and plot plans of activities on the job site, leading, directing, training, and supervising foremen and crews, promoting, executing, and adhering to company's safety program and encouraging all employees, contractors, and subcontractors to adopt a safety culture, working in a safe and responsible manner, and encouraging teamwork.

Basic qualifications include 3+ years of experience managing teams (preferably data center cabling technicians), 3+ years of direct data center experience installing and routing optical fiber in large scale Tier 3 or 4 facilities, a high school diploma or equivalency certificate, availability to work evenings and weekends, as the schedule varies depending on site operational needs; flexibility is required, and physical requirements including work often performed in tight quarters and physical dexterity is necessary to perform job functions, comfortable working in an environment requiring exposure to noise.

Preferred skills and experience include a journeyman certificate or postsecondary diploma / engineering degree in a related discipline, ability to schedule, manage and understand the critical path of a Data Center project, including typical sequences and workflows through Commissioning, thorough understanding of a Data Center's typical Commissioning process and best practices, including knowledge of Method of Procedures (MOP) processes, ability to work closely with Operations and Engineering teams to schedule critical work and resolve quality issues, expert knowledge of and experience in the construction industry and company operations, including building materials, construction specifications, and methods and procedures, ability to lead and manage others, including proactively coordinating multiple scopes, thorough understanding of contract language and expert ability to identify and mitigate risks, and identify and leverage opportunities, expert knowledge of and application of safety and environmental principles/ procedures/legislation and demonstrated experience in implementing a strong safety culture, demonstrated conflict-resolution skills, problem-solving abilities and professional judgment, superior relationship management with the ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders and decision makers, ability to use judgment and analytical skills in complex installations, ability to prioritize and use time management practices as well as prioritize tasks based on fluctuating needs, and ability to adapt, make decisions, problem solve, and collaborate efficiently under pressure, experience using Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point, Word, Teams, Project, etc).

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