Project Manager, Facilities Operations - Memphis

SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission.

Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.

We’re seeking an experienced Facilities Operations Project Manager with a strong engineering background to lead mission-critical facilities work across our Southaven and Memphis sites. As a key on-site leader on the facilities operations team, you’ll bring technical credibility, engineering expertise, and steady project leadership to fast-paced, high-impact work in live, technically advanced facilities. You’ll own vendor and internal relationships, drive site improvement and activation projects from scope through handover, and keep operating systems reliable without taking the campus offline.

You will own the project portfolio that sits between those two: retrofits, upgrades, activations, vendor-led maintenance projects, and the facilities work that has to land cleanly into an operating plant. You’ll coordinate closely with facilities supervisors, technicians, construction, engineering, and commissioning, and report to facilities operations leadership.

• 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…