Pre-Construction Manager

Fluidstack; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in the form of stock options

Retirement or pension plan

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Generous PTO policy

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking an experienced construction lead for large-scale GPU data center projects in New York. The role demands expertise in managing pre-construction processes effectively, ensuring constructability reviews focus on high-density power and liquid cooling systems.

The ideal candidate has led similar projects and can conduct comprehensive site evaluations that impact overall delivery. Competitive compensation is offered, with a base salary range between $160,000 and $250,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Experience leading pre-construction for large-scale data center projects.
• Ability to conduct constructability reviews on mechanical and civil designs.
• Proficiency in managing site evaluations impacting schedules and costs.

Responsibilities

• Lead pre-construction for large-scale GPU data center projects.
• Run constructability reviews focusing on power distribution and cooling.
• Perform evaluations to determine site-specific requirements.

Skills

Large-scale data center lead experience

Constructability reviews

High-density power systems

Liquid cooling systems

Site due diligence

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

How We Operate

• Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
• Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

Key Problems the Team is Working On

• Put gigawatts in the ground, faster than anyone has. We're delivering one of the largest data center buildouts of its kind, with many sites running at once. Traditional construction management breaks at this scale, so we're building the model that replaces it.
• Throw out traditional construction and invent how gigawatts get built. Tons of tools, layers of process, and administrative drag don't get you there. You'll strip all of that out and win by solving the real problem and beating the goal, not by managing toward it.
• Productize the data center so we can build it a thousand times. You'll turn one-off construction into a repeatable, modular build, where the hundredth site goes up faster and cleaner than the first. That repeatability is the only way to reach the scale we're targeting.

Role Scope

• Lead pre-construction for large-scale GPU data center projects as we scale from 600MW to multi-GW, serving as the link between Real Estate, Design Engineering, Procurement, and Construction.
• Run constructability reviews of electrical, mechanical, structural, and civil designs, with focus on high-density power distribution (100+ kW per rack), liquid cooling, and utility interconnections.
• Perform site evaluations (electrical capacity, utilities, civil and structural, phasing) and determine site-specific requirements that impact schedule, cost, and delivery.
• Develop construction scope packages and RFPs, manage GC pre-construction services (bid reviews, schedule development, labor pricing, subcontractor evaluations), and negotiate with landlords, developers, and contractors.
• Run construction cost analysis from conceptual through GMP, support budget updates, and validate estimates against market and historical data.
• Build comprehensive handoff packages for Construction Managers, and partner with Contracts, Legal, and Commercial on contract terms and risk allocation.

What We're Looking For

• You've led pre-construction for large-scale data center, industrial, or mission-critical projects.
• You run constructability reviews across electrical, mechanical, structural, and civil, with high-density power and liquid cooling in scope.
• You perform site due diligence (geotechnical, utilities, zoning and permitting, logistics) and translate it into schedule and budget impact.
• You develop scope packages and RFPs and manage GC pre-construction services and negotiations.
• You run construction cost analysis from concept through GMP and keep estimates honest against the market.
• Bonus: Hyperscale data center pre-construction. High-density power (100+ kW per rack) and liquid cooling. Modular or prefabricated delivery.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
• Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.

The base salary range for this position is $160,000-$250,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location. This range represents our good faith estimate of the compensation for this role at the time of posting. Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.