Solar Project Manager

Fluidstack•Austin, TX

1d•$160,000 - $250,000

About The Position

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI and is singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them. We are looking for individuals who care deeply about this problem space and want to be part of building this infrastructure. 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 is working on key problems such as delivering gigawatts of power infrastructure faster than anyone, inventing new methods for building gigawatts, and productizing the data center for repeatable, modular builds to achieve scale.

Requirements

Led project management on utility-scale solar or solar-plus-storage projects from NTP through COD, delivered on budget, and can describe exactly where the schedule pressure came from and how you resolved it.
Understand civil, structural, electrical, BESS, substation, and gen-tie scopes well enough to catch scope gaps at bid time and hold EPC contractors to the contract during execution.
Own budgets at the project level: have run earned-value tracking, managed owner-controlled contingency, and governed change orders without losing commercial position.
Manage interconnection milestones as a critical path item, and have navigated CAISO, MISO, ERCOT, or PJM queue processes without letting them dictate your schedule.
Communicate with enough precision that a lender, a landowner, and a field superintendent each get exactly what they need from the same status update, reframed for their context.
Built and scaled field-based project teams across multiple concurrent sites, and the people you've led have gone on to run projects themselves.

Nice To Haves

PMI-PMP or equivalent.
BESS and substation construction.
Multi-state concurrent portfolio delivery.
Lender reporting and project finance interface.

Responsibilities

Drive end-to-end delivery of utility-scale solar and BESS projects from development handoff through commercial operation, owning budget, schedule, scope, and risk across civil, electrical, substation, gen-tie, and interconnection workstreams.
Build and own integrated project schedules (Primavera P6, MS Project) across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning, and maintain the master schedule as the single source of truth from site mobilization through energization.
Own project budgets, cash-flow forecasts, and change-order governance, report earned-value KPIs weekly, and flag cost and schedule deviations with recovery options before they compound.
Manage the full contract lifecycle: RFP, bid analysis, EPC and subcontractor award, PCO tracking, lender and interconnection reporting requirements, and close-out.
Drive mitigation on critical-path and long-lead risks including transformers, inverters, switchgear, BESS enclosures, and interconnection queue milestones, and act as the single point of accountability for all internal and external project stakeholders.
Lead construction managers, field superintendents, and project engineers across concurrent solar sites, develop staffing plans, and run the weekly cadence of standups, reviews, and issue escalations.