Senior Project Manager

About this role

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.

About This Role:

Join our team as a Senior Project Manager and take ownership of planning, organizing, and executing Engineered to Order (ETO), Modular Data Center Building projects with precision and efficiency. You will be the conduit for converting complex customer requirements to actionable, attainable scope while collaborating with in-house engineering and manufacturing experts.

You'll be the champion of managing customer expectations, coordinating manufacturing activities on innovative designs that need to adhere to strict specifications, code and safety standards. Your ability to communicate effectively and lead cross-functional teams will be crucial in driving projects to successful completion.

Your work directly impacts our ability to deploy modular data center buildings to compute from sustainable, renewable and/or stranded energy sources.

We are seeking a deeply experienced professional with a proven background in construction, engineering, and/or manufacturing, a strategic mindset, and an unwavering passion for innovative design/build project leadership. This is a full-time position.

What You’ll Be Working On:

- Cutting edge “Spark” Modular Data Center project: Collaborate with technical customer representatives, engineering and manufacturing teams to work through a state of the art modular data center design.

- Project Planning and Execution: Define clear project goals, develop strategic plans, financial budgets and manage timelines to ensure on-time and within-budget delivery from concept engineering through delivery of finished products to site.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with estimating, engineering, procurement, production, and accounting teams to align project deliverables and proactively mitigate risk.

- Customer and Stakeholder management: Develop and maintain customer relationships while managing change and holding stakeholders accountable. You are the scope control expert and stakeholders are aware of impacts for each one of their decisions and lack of timely decisions. You are also the go to person when the customer needs a problem resolved.

- Budget reporting and forecasting: Take complex projects and break them down into digestible financial budgets and reports, collaborating with manufacturing production, estimating and engineering teams.

- Strategic Change & Risk Management: Proactively identify, analyze, and mitigate potential scope creep, project risks, and design changes on innovative projects. You will develop and execute sophisticated change control strategies including risk logs, action logs, RFIs, submittals and change orders to ensure stakeholder alignment, budget stability, and schedule adherence in a dynamic manufacturing environment.

- Team Leadership and Mentorship: Provide guidance and support to team members, ensuring clear understanding of tasks and efficient execution. As a Sr. PM you are responsible for a lot of different outcomes and need to lead within and outside of the direct team.

- Resource Management: Identify and allocate necessary internal and external resources to ensure project success.

- Process Improvement: Make a positive impact in a new facility and influence manufacturing processes for continuous improvement.

- Quality and Safety Compliance: Ensure all projects comply with design specifications, operational standards, and safety regulations (ISO 9001:2015).

- Permit Management: Track licensing requirements by AHJ by collaborating with the dedicated licensing team and ensure compliance for each jurisdiction. Fully manage and drive project permits to ensure compliance by project, including package generation, engineering collaboration and deviation report resolution.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

- Industry Experience: Construction, Electrical Project Management or Modular Building Manufacturing experience: Experience in construction or similar industry with exposure to multi-disciplinary products, (electrical, HVAC, structural, enclosure/building envelope). Modular Building Manufacturing and/or Data Center Construction experience is preferred.

- Building Code & Electrical Code Knowledge: Competent in building and electrical code knowledge for collaboration with the in-house engineering department, manufacturing technicians, and authority having jurisdictions for permit processing.

- Project Management Experience: Minimum of 7+ years of experience managing projects within the electrical equipment, construction, engineering and/or manufacturing industry.

- Bachelor of Science: BS in Business, Engineering, Construction Management. Closely related fields will be considered.

- Complex Change Leadership & Process Ownership: Proven ability to not only lock scope and manage change orders but also to lead the adoption

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