Supervisor, Facilities

About This Role

This role on the facilities operations team involves helping to design, build, activate, and maintain the company's technically advanced facilities. The supervisor will operate with autonomy to solve diverse and complex problems, manage multiple projects, and work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. This position directly impacts the foundation of the Southaven and Memphis sites, ensuring low maintenance costs, competitive vendors, and an enhanced image for customers, visitors, and VIPs.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team responsible for performing inspections, testing, maintenance, and repair of campus-wide systems, including mechanical/HVAC, electrical, compressed air, dust collectors, and plumbing tasks (backflow preventers/etc.), as well as other preventative maintenance and repair programs
• Lead and direct a team of plumbing, compressed air, electrical, and HVAC-focused facility technicians
• Schedule daily work and prioritize assignments
• Develop, plan and execute site improvement projects in accordance with overall business objectives and strategy
• Understand all safety procedures of SpaceXAI to observe the work of contractors and bring safety concerns to their attention as needed
• Report all unsafe acts and conditions which remain uncorrected to the supervisor
• Ensure no work is performed when conditions are considered unsafe
• Maintain appropriate records for all trades as required
• Understand mechanical equipment such as: chilled water systems, boilers, VFDs, pumps, PLCs, condensers, split systems, air compressors, dust collectors and other mechanical equipment
• Communicate with the Manager on daily activities, projects, team morale and concerning issues
• Manage vendor/contractor finances and work with SpaceXAI buyers and accounts payable to assure accounts are maintained
• Oversee a team of technicians, driving overall performance and effectiveness through individual coaching and development

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalency certificate
• 3+ years of experience with facilities management

Nice to have:

• Bachelor's degree in construction, engineering or equivalent
• Knowledge of building management and automated facilities monitoring systems and processes such as: HVAC systems, fluid plumbing systems, generators, compressed air systems or fuel storage systems
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications such as Excel, Outlook, Word and PowerPoint
• Experience managing budgets and third-party vendors
• Experience negotiating contracts and comparing service costs to achieve maximum value
• Experience with asset management software
• High attention to detail and cleanliness standards