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# Infrastructure Program Manager, Optimus Factory

- **Company:** Tesla Motors
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Centers, Value Engineering
- **Published:** August 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/85080348/1

## About the Role

* Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
 * Engineering experience on Data Center and industrial projects from concept to delivery with >10 years of demonstrated experience
 * Experience building mission-critical facilities from scoping through proposal, design, procurement, construction, and commissioning
 * Advanced project management skills and demonstrated application of project and program management fundamentals to complex engineering problems
 * Excellent communication and documentation skills with the ability to understand complex problems and distill the message into a clear plan
 * Subcontractor and consulting engineer management experience

## Description

Designing and building world-class Gigafactories, at record speed, is key to enable Tesla to scale worldwide. In this role, you will be asked to own Giga TexasDatacenterscoping, technical planning, integration of layouts and drive thedatacenter and infrastructuredesign and construction from concept definition, design to execution and production for bothlocal and remotefacilities. The ideal candidate will have a strong background indatacenter deployment, customer management,technical program management, factory engineering, manufacturing, construction, contract management, and site/real estate development.
What You'll Do

 * Owns plan of record, scope definition, approval, strategy, and execution for onsite/offsite infrastructure programs, by integrating, negotiating, and aligning with key stakeholders, real estate, factory engineering, construction, procurement, finance, and project customers
 * Owns the Optimus factory scoping efforts by pulling together the cross functional teams, understands their needs, drives technical planning, defines options/tradeoffs/cost/schedule/impacts, and secures alignment between the working and leadership teams
 * Owns program communications to major stakeholders; Schedule, budget, costs, forecasts, risks, operational readiness, and launch readiness and drives program funding efforts to meet timelines, with quantified options assessment
 * Deliverables needed for procurement, costing, permitting, and construction, meet program requirements. Serve as main infrastructure program point of contact for program lifecycle
 * Proactively identifies and drives continuous improvement of Tesla processes to improve program performances
 * Leads Optimus factory infrastructure team w/o any direct reports, negotiating and influence leadership to prioritize work efforts. Initiates technical studies such as feasibility and value engineering exercises to meet program scoping efforts, and options analysis andactively converts customer requirements to executable scope


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