Manager, Modular Building Programs

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Job description

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 the Manager of Modular Building Programs and take ownership of the project management function for our entire modular product sector including Spark Modular Data Center units and Power Distribution Center (PDC) buildings. You will own the portfolio schedule, the delivery commitment to hyperscale customers, and the growth of the project managers executing the work.

This is a working leadership role. You'll manage a small team of project managers while personally carrying the hardest programs, the toughest customer conversations, and the cross-functional escalations your team cannot resolve on their own. You are the connective tissue between the PMO, the plant floor, Engineering, and Supply Chain for everything modular.

Your work directly impacts our ability to deploy modular data center buildings to compute from sustainable, renewable and/or stranded energy sources. Success here is measured in throughput and predictability: more units out the door, on the date we committed, at the margin we quoted.

We are seeking an experienced people leader with a proven background in construction, engineering, and/or manufacturing, a strategic mindset, and the operational discipline to scale a product line through rapid growth. This is a full-time position. (#INDMFG)

What You’ll Be Working On:

• Modular Portfolio Ownership: Own the consolidated schedule across Spark MDC and PDC building programs, including capacity with Production planning and plant operations.

• Team Leadership and Mentorship: Lead, coach, and develop a team of project managers. Set the standard for schedule quality, change discipline, cost accuracy, and customer communication — and hold the team to it.

• Customer Relationship Management and Development: Serve as the senior escalation point for modular customers, including executive-level schedule impact and change negotiation discussions. Become the go-to solution for customer needs and build strong, repeatable relationships that outlast any single program.

• Capacity and Production Planning: Partner with Manufacturing Operations & Production Planning on line loading, takt-time alignment, labor forecasting, and bottleneck resolution across the modular build area.

• Strategic Change & Risk Management: Govern the engineering change process for modular products. Enforce impact analysis, pricing discipline, and customer approval before anything reaches the floor. Maintain the portfolio risk register and drive mitigation across engineering, supply chain, and production constraints.

• Program Economics and Target Accountability: Set the margin and cost targets for each modular program at baseline, and own delivery against them through close-out. Partner with Project Controls in a standing monthly economics review where you jointly validate the cost-to-complete position — Project Controls owns the model, you own the operational assumptions inside it: hours remaining, change order capture, schedule position, and material exposure. Sign the forecast you submit. When a program drifts off target, bring the variance, the root cause, and a recovery plan to the same review rather than waiting for it to surface in the roll-up.

• Process Improvement & Standardization: Drive standardization across configurations — build repeatable schedule templates, WBS structures, budget templates and close-out packages that reduce per-unit PM overhead.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Sales and Estimating during pursuit and handoff to validate schedule feasibility, scope delineation, and manufacturability before commitments are made.

• Executive Reporting and Dashboard Ownership: Own the modular executive dashboard — throughput, on-time delivery, backlog, and margin across Spark MDC and PDC programs. Your project managers complete the project-level inputs; you own the dashboard’s accuracy, its cadence, and the story it tells to leadership. Represent modular products in PMO-wide governance including stage gates and post-mortem review, and enable the team to represent individual projects reporting upwards to senior and executive leadership.

• Schedule Quality Assurance: Perform logic checks, float analysis, critical path validation, and baseline change control on program schedules — audit and correct, not merely report.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• Industry Experience — Modular Building Manufacturing or Data Center Construction: Experience delivering multi-disciplinary products (electrical, HVAC, structural, enclosure/building envelope). Modular Building Manufacturing and/or Data Center Construction experience is strongly preferred.

• Project Management Experience: Minimum of 8+ years managing projects within the electrical equipment, construction, engineering and/or manufacturing industry, including ETO or highly engineered production.

• People Leadership: 3+ years of direct leadership of project managers or equivalent technical staff, with a track record of developing them.

• Engineering & Constructability Competency: Ability to interpret electrical, mechanical, and structural engineering design drawings, and to lead a team that does the same. We are looking for a leader who can review a design package from a “we have to build this” perspective and give our engineering group productive, risk-based feedback before release.

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

• Portfolio Accountability: Demonstrated ownership of a multi-project manufacturing or construction portfolio with accountability for on-time delivery and margin performance.

• Complex Change Leadership & Process Ownership: Proven ability to lead the adoption of dynamic change management practices across Engineering, Manufacturing, and Procurement.

• Schedule Development & Management: Proficient in scheduling using waterfall methodologies. Proficient with programs such as Smartsheet, MS Project, Monday.com or Primavera P6.

• Cost Management: Ability to forecast and build cost budgets across a portfolio, and manage those budgets through completion.

• Technical Proficiency: Proficiency in Google Suite and Microsoft Office. Experience with manufacturing ERP systems like SAP or Visual; experience with Acumatica is preferred.

• Safety and Compliance: This position is designated a safety-sensitive position and/or is located in a safety-sensitive facility. Drug and alcohol program participation is required.

Bonus Points:

• Direct expertise in managing change on first-of-a-kind (FOAK) manufacturing programs or highly complex projects, maintaining positive client relationships throughout periods of significant project evolution.

• Experience scaling a modular or prefabricated product line through rapid volume growth.

• Background spanning both field construction and factory manufacturing.

• Familiarity with industrialized building regulatory programs and third-party inspection regimes.

• Experience implementing PMO standards, SOPs, or stage-gate governance in a manufacturing organization.

• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent certification.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation and equity packages

• Restricted Stock Units

• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs

• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance

• Employer contributions to HSA account

• Paid parental leave

• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

• Professional development & tuition reimbursement

• Mental health & wellness support

• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)

• Cell phone stipend

• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary

• Volunteer time off

• Global travel insurance & emergency assistance

• Daily meals allowance

• Additional perks & programs specific to location

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $160,000 -$180,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.

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How Brighton compares. Among the 80 largest places in Colorado, Brighton is #22 by population, #74 for long commutes (#1 = fewest), #71 for college degrees (#1 = most), #56 for remote work (#1 = most). Its county, Adams County, is #8 of 64 counties for average pay ($73,817).

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Brighton has 42,059 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 0.7% of the population of Colorado. It covers 22 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 1,936 people per square mile. The median age is 34.0, 10% younger than the state median (34.0 against 37.7).

Housing

The median gross rent is $1,779 a month (rent plus utilities), about the same as the state median ($1,779 against $1,761). Over a year that is 19.8% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $499,500, which is 4.6 times the median household income ($107,679). 71.5% of households own their home, 8% above the state average (71.5% against 66.2%).

Work and pay

The Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metropolitan area has 1,609,350 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $62,320 a year, 22% above the national median ($62,320 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are business and financial operations (169,260 jobs, median $96,450); office and administrative support (168,520 jobs, median $53,050); sales and related (165,560 jobs, median $49,730). The area is most specialised in architecture and engineering (1.6 times) and computer and mathematical (1.6 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($160,810) and legal ($132,690). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Adams County was 4.6%. 71.9% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Adams County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 74.1% drive alone, 1.3% use public transit, 0.5% walk, 13.4% work from home. 23.2% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 65% above the state average (23.2% against 14.1%).

People and education

23.5% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 49% below the state share (23.5% against 45.7%). 9.7% of residents were born outside the United States, about the same as the state share (9.7% against 9.8%). The poverty rate is 9.3%, about the same as the state rate (9.3% against 9.4%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 75°F (24.1°C), and the coolest is Dec at 30°F (-1.1°C). About 448 mm (18 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; May is the wettest month (65 mm) and Jan the driest (20 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

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