Supervisor, Fire Protection - Memphis

Job description

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars. SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next. SUPERVISOR, FIRE PROTECTION Memphis is a large, continuously operating super-intelligence data center campus. Facilities Operations keeps the buildings, power, cooling, and life-safety systems running so the compute stays online. Fire protection is part of that uptime, not a side task. The Fire Protection Supervisor leads the technicians and contractors who keep fire alarm, detection, and suppression systems in service across the Memphis data center campus. The role owns inspection, testing, maintenance, impairments, and commissioning turnover, and it works with engineering on in-house design, code compliance, and authority-having-jurisdiction issues. This is a hands-on leadership job on a 24/7 site. The position is based in Memphis, Tennessee and Southaven, Mississippi. RESPONSIBILITIES: • Supervise daily work of fire protection technicians and assigned contractors at Memphis, including scheduling, on-call coverage, shift handoff, training, and accountability. • Manage operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of fire alarm and water- or gas-based suppression systems serving data halls, electrical rooms, battery and energy-storage areas, and support buildings, and drive the preventive-maintenance backlog to closure in the CMMS. • Plan and execute inspection, testing, and maintenance of fire and life-safety systems (alarms, water-based sprinkler and suppression, pre-action, gas-based and clean-agent systems, extinguishers) and close deficiencies before they become failed inspections or an outage risk. • Own impairments, fire watches, and restoration of protection, with documented control of risk and clear communication to data center operations so protection is not dropped during live compute. • Lead commissioning of fire and life-safety projects from planning through functional and acceptance testing, authority-having-jurisdiction witness, and turnover (as-builts, programming, training, and spare parts), including new halls and fit-outs still coming online. • Provide oversight of fire protection contractors and related construction, including submittal review, field quality, impairments, and punch list. Build internal capability so routine Memphis work does not stay with vendors. • Coordinate with Facilities trades (electrical, mechanical, and controls), operations, Environmental Health and Safety, contractors, and the local authority having jurisdiction on installations, upgrades, certifications, and code interpretations. • Maintain drawings, device lists, calculations, inspection records, permits, and corrective-action logs in an audit-ready state. • Verify assigned buildings and modifications remain compliant with adopted building and fire codes and that installed systems operate as designed around high electrical load, hot aisles, and dense cable and equipment layouts. • Support fire hazard and risk review of materials, lithium-ion and other battery systems, high-density electrical equipment, storage, and layout changes that affect protection or egress. • Participate in design of fire alarm, detection, and suppression for new construction, renovations, and occupancy changes, including layouts, calculations, specifications, and packages for internal review and authority-having-jurisdiction submittal. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: • High school diploma or equivalency certificate. • 5+ years in fire protection system design, installation, inspection, testing, maintenance, or commissioning, including at least 2 years leading technicians or a contractor crew in a data center, industrial, or other mission-critical fa