Facilities Operations Project Lead — Live Campus & Critical Systems

Spacex; Memphis, Northern (TN, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceXAI in Memphis, TN is seeking an experienced Projects Manager for Facilities Operations to lead mission-critical work across Southaven and Memphis sites. You will own vendor relationships and drive retrofit, activation, and maintenance projects from scope through handover while keeping systems reliable on a live campus.

The role requires strong engineering background, ability to manage multi-vendor programs, and proactive risk mitigation to ensure safety, schedule, and quality.

Qualifications

• Experience leading on-site projects with vendors and stakeholders.
• Background in data center, hyperscale, or industrial facilities operations.
• Knowledge of building management and automated facilities monitoring systems and processes.

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

Skills

Facilities operations management

Vendor management

On-site leadership

Project portfolio management

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Procore

Primavera P6

Bluebeam

CMMS

MS Office

Job description

SpaceXAI in Memphis, TN is seeking an experienced Projects Manager for Facilities Operations to lead mission-critical work across Southaven and Memphis sites. You will own vendor relationships and drive retrofit, activation, and maintenance projects from scope through handover while keeping systems reliable on a live campus.

The role requires strong engineering background, ability to manage multi-vendor programs, and proactive risk mitigation to ensure safety, schedule, and quality.