Facilities Operations Project Manager
SpaceXAI builds frontier AI models and products including the Grok conversational assistant and a multimodal developer API.
Funding history
About SpaceXAI
SpaceXAI is a US-based AI company focused on accelerating scientific discovery and understanding the universe through reasoning, voice, image, video, and generative AI systems. Formerly xAI, it was acquired by SpaceX effective February 2, 2026, while continuing to operate the x.ai site and services.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead facilities operations projects from scope and planning through installation, commissioning, and handover. You will coordinate vendors, contractors, technicians, engineering, construction, and commissioning partners; manage schedules, costs, safety, risks, and reporting; and support reliable operation of campus systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5+ years of experience managing facilities operations or infrastructure projects
- Ability to work evenings and weekends as operational needs require
- Ability to provide assigned 24/7 on-call emergency support
- Ability to lift 25+ pounds
Responsibilities
- Manage contractor, vendor, partner, and internal stakeholder relationships for the Southaven and Memphis sites
- Lead facilities projects from scoping and planning through installation, commissioning, and operational handover
- Develop and execute site improvement, retrofit, and activation projects involving mechanical, HVAC, electrical, compressed air, plumbing, and related systems
- Coordinate vendors, trade partners, field teams, facilities personnel, engineers, and technical stakeholders
- Identify and mitigate risks related to quality, safety, schedule, and operational readiness
- Resolve project roadblocks and maintain complex multi-phase timelines while minimizing operational disruption
- Create project schedules and deliverables and align them with infrastructure goals
- Partner with construction, engineering, and commissioning teams to transition work into operations
- Deliver KPI dashboards, reports, and project updates
- Perform quantity take-offs, field verifications, and progress monitoring
- Manage change orders and value-engineering solutions to control costs
- Manage vendor and contractor finances with buyers and accounts payable
- Lead site safety initiatives and stop unsafe work
- Apply knowledge of facilities equipment to scope, sequence, and accept project work
- Support cross-functional partners as needs evolve