Pre-Construction Manager

About the role

As a Pre-Construction Manager at FluidStack, you will lead pre-construction activities for large-scale GPU data center projects as we scale from 600MW to multi-GW capacity across the US. You'll serve as the critical link between Real Estate, Design Engineering, Procurement, and Construction teams, ensuring designs are constructible, cost-effective, and ready for rapid deployment. You'll focus on high-density AI infrastructure requiring advanced power distribution (100+ kW per rack) and liquid cooling systems. Working closely with the Director of Data Center Construction and cross-functional teams, you'll drive constructability standards, develop budgets and schedules, manage contractor procurement, and ensure seamless handoffs to construction execution-all while supporting FluidStack's aggressive expansion timeline and billions in annual infrastructure investment.

Responsibilities

• Lead pre-construction planning from site selection through design development for data center projects, providing cost, schedule, and constructability guidance at each milestone and acting as primary liaison between Real Estate, Design Engineering, Procurement, and Construction teams
• Conduct detailed constructability reviews of electrical, mechanical, structural, and civil designs with particular focus on high-density power distribution, liquid cooling infrastructure, and utility interconnections; identify and resolve complex constructability issues and cost/schedule risks
• Perform site evaluations including electrical capacity, utilities access, civil/structural requirements, and build phasing assessments for potential locations; determine site-specific requirements that impact schedule, cost, delivery, and integration with surrounding infrastructure
• Execute financial analysis of construction costs at multiple project milestones (conceptual through GMP); support bi-annual budget updates and validate cost estimates against market conditions and historical data
• Create comprehensive handoff packages for Construction Managers including budgets, schedules, design documentation, contractor agreements, and site information; capture and apply lessons learned to drive continuous improvement across FluidStack's design standards and delivery processes

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, such as Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Construction Engineering, Structural Engineering, Architectural Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• 7+ years of construction management experience on large, complex projects involving large-scale MEP systems, with 3+ years focused on pre-construction or design phase management for mission-critical facilities (data centers, indus

Benefits

Additional Information

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!

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