Senior Construction Operations Lead

fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a construction operations leader in Austin to manage gigawatt-scale site operations, coordinating schedule, cost, quality, and safety across multiple sites.

You will align GC partners, self-perform crews, and internal teams to surface blockers early and keep builds on track. The role emphasizes ownership, first-principles thinking, and delivering modular, repeatable builds for scale.

Qualifications

• You've run construction operations across multiple large industrial or mission critical projects.
• You've held GCs to schedule on jobs where the schedule was called impossible.
• You read a P6 schedule critically and spot the float that isn't real.
• You've turned field lessons into standards other projects then had to follow.
• You make decisions on incomplete information and own the outcome.
• Bonus: Data center or semiconductor construction. Modular and prefab delivery. Design-build contracting. Self-perform experience.

Responsibilities

• Run construction operations across multiple gigawatt-scale sites: schedule, cost, quality, and safety in one view.
• Set the operating rhythm between GCs, self‑perform crews, and internal teams so blockers surface weeks before they hit the critical path.
• Standardize the construction playbook across sites so the tenth build runs faster and cleaner than the first.
• Drive constructability feedback into design and manufacturing so field problems get engineered out at the source.

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.

We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!

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.

The Construction Team

Examples of 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

• Run construction operations across multiple concurrent gigawatt-scale sites: schedule, cost, quality, and safety in one view.
• Set the operating rhythm between GCs, self‑perform crews, and internal teams so blockers surface weeks before they hit the critical path.
• Standardize the construction playbook across sites so the tenth build runs faster and cleaner than the first.
• Drive constructability feedback into design and manufacturing so field problems get engineered out at the source.

What We're Looking For

• You've run construction operations across multiple large industrial or mission critical projects at once.
• You've held GCs to schedule on jobs where the schedule was called impossible.
• You read a P6 schedule critically and spot the float that isn't real.
• You've turned field lessons into standards other projects then had to follow.
• You make decisions on incomplete information and own the outcome.
• Bonus: Data center or semiconductor construction. Modular and prefab delivery. Design‑build contracting. Self‑perform experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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.