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# Shop Foreman at Crusoe

- **Company:** [Crusoe](https://feeny.ai/companies/crusoe)
- **Location:** Arvada, CO / United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/crusoe/700cd0ee-3b0b-4fab-9c8b-7d53e511882f

## 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: Supervises and coordinates activities of production leads and technicians. Abides by company policies and enforces safety regulations. Shall maintain a quality workforce by promoting a respectful and positive working environment by developing relationships and putting people first. Oversee the manufacturing of our end to end process for modular data centers, power distribution centers, and low volt and medium volt gear assemblies.

What You’ll Be Working On:

- Operational & Floor Leadership: Provide overall operational leadership for assigned lines and projects, consistently achieving target performance metrics across safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost.
- Lean Manufacturing Application: Champion the practical application of Lean Manufacturing tools and concepts—including 5S, Gemba walks, Kaizen events, line balancing, and visual management—to achieve measurable and sustainable workflow improvements on the floor.
- Strategy & Schedule Execution: Formulate and execute daily project strategies, production schedules, and technician resource plans strictly aligned with budgeted production bid hours.
- Team Leadership & Mentorship: Directly lead, mentor, and upskill production leads and technicians to build an engaged, accountable, and high-performing manufacturing workforce.
- Operational Metrics & Reporting: Continuously monitor and report on key operational inputs and KPIs, including safety incident rates, first-pass yield, schedule adherence, labor efficiency, and scrap/rework costs.
- Workforce Management & Retention: Oversee assigned manufacturing personnel, driving clear accountability, technician engagement, skills matrix progression, and workforce retention.
- Safety & Culture of Excellence: Champion an active safety culture, enforcing strict compliance, continuous hazard identification, and operational excellence aligned with Crusoe Mission Critical values.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and Project Management to eliminate bottlenecks and ensure seamless project execution.
- Stakeholder & Vendor Relationships: Cultivate productive, professional working relationships with internal departments, external suppliers, and equipment vendors to resolve production constraints rapidly.
- Project Accountability: Maintain end-to-end accountability for all aspects of an assigned project, including tooling, fixtures, standard operating procedures, and assembly execution strategies.
- Manufacturing Tactical Input: Coordinate regularly with manufacturing management to provide ground-level tactical and strategic input on process feasibility, capacity, and schedule optimization.
- Estimating & DFM Reviews: Participate actively in project production hour estimating, Design for Manufacturability (DFM) evaluations, and risk assessments for new project pursuits.
- Process & Safety Development: Develop, roll out, and maintain standard manufacturing work instructions, Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs), safety procedures, and technician skill assessments.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

- Education: High school diploma, G.E.D., or equivalent vocational training credential required.
- Experience & Crew Leadership: 5+ years of progressive manufacturing, industrial fabrication, or electro-mechanical assembly experience, including demonstrated success directly supervising, scheduling, and guiding production leads and technician crews.
- Electro-Mechanical Domain: Skilled specialist background in electrical and mechanical designs, with hands-on understanding of power distribution assemblies, control wiring, and structural equipment integration.
- Process & Procedure Development: Proven track record contributing to the development, refinement, and implementation of manufacturing concepts, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and floor assembly techniques.
- Task & Schedule Coordination: Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex tasks under established procedures, balance multi-line workloads, and maintain strict adherence to operational schedules and bid hours.
- Problem Solving & Initiative: Strong practical judgment and proactive initiative in troubleshooting assembly defects, eliminating line stoppages, and recommending engineering adjustments.
- Cross-Functional Teamwork: Track record of collaborating effectively within a team environment under the general guidance of manufacturing leadership.
- Safety and Compliance: This position is designated as a safety-sensitive position located in a safety-sensitive facility. Drug and alcohol program participation is required, and candidates must be able to pass a comprehensive background check.
- Physical & Operational Requirements: Ability to navigate an industrial manufacturing shop floor, stand and walk for extended periods, and lift or move equipment up to 50 lbs.

Bonus Points:

- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
- Direct experience manufacturing Modular Data Centers (MDCs), Power Distribution Centers (PDCs), switchgear, or industrial e-houses.
- Advanced blueprint and schematic literacy across electrical one-lines, control wiring diagrams, and mechanical fabrication drawings.
- Hands-on experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) for labor tracking and shop floor management.

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: Compensation will be paid in the range of $100,000 - $115,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. (#INDMFG) 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.

## About Crusoe

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Crusoe is an energy-first AI infrastructure company that designs, builds, and operates hyperscale data centers and a cloud platform purpose-built for artificial intelligence workloads.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E)
- **Headquarters**: Denver, Colorado, USA
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Chase Lochmiller and Cully Cavness

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: AI Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Clean Energy
- Target customers: Enterprise AI companies, AI-native startups, research institutions, government agencies (B2B)
- **Mission**: "Accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence."

## Products & Services
- **Crusoe Cloud**: An AI-optimized cloud platform purpose-built for AI workloads, featuring high-performance NVIDIA and AMD compute, accelerated storage, and optimized RDMA networking. Claims to deploy models up to 20x faster and cut costs by up to 81%.
- **Crusoe Managed Inference**: A managed AI inference service built with Crusoe's proprietary MemoryAlloy technology, offering best-in-class speed, throughput, and reliability. Features the Crusoe Intelligence Foundry for model selection and API key management.
- **AI Data Center Infrastructure**: Vertically integrated design, build, and operation of hyperscale AI factories (e.g., the 1.2 GW Stargate campus in Abilene, TX). Modular, scalable construction for power-hungry AI workloads.
- **Crusoe Managed Kubernetes & Slurm**: Managed orchestration services that eliminate operational overhead for customers.
- **Crusoe AutoClusters**: Fault-tolerant, managed cluster services for large-scale AI training.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Raised over $1.8B+ in total funding (Series E in 2024 was $1B+; Series D in 2024 was $600M; Series C in 2021 was $350M).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: NVIDIA, NYDIG, GE Vernova, Redwood Materials, Tallgrass, AMD. The company has also partnered with leading energy and technology firms to power its data centers.
- **Growth Signals**: Divested bitcoin mining business to NYDIG in 2023 to focus exclusively on AI infrastructure; broke ground on the 1.2 GW Stargate campus in Abilene, TX; expanded into Europe with a geothermal/hydro-powered deployment in Iceland; announced 1.8 GW Wyoming data center with Tallgrass; acquired GPU memory optimization startup Atero and established a Tel Aviv office.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Energy-First Approach**: The company’s core differentiator is its vertical integration starting from energy sourcing. It uses "environmentally aligned power sources" (wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, natural gas with carbon capture) to power its AI factories, including pioneering technology to convert wasted natural gas into energy.
- **Vertical Integration**: Controls the entire stack—from finding innovative energy sources to building and managing hyperscale data centers and operating the cloud platform.
- **NVIDIA Partnership**: Close partnership with NVIDIA, providing access to the latest and highest-performance GPU hardware for its cloud and infrastructure.
- **Proven Performance**: Claims 99.98% uptime, 100% customer satisfaction score, and significant cost/performance advantages (up to 81% cost reduction).

## Strategic Focus
- **Massive Infrastructure Expansion**: Aggressively scaling its data center footprint, with major projects in Abilene, Texas (Stargate) and Wyoming (Tallgrass), and expansion into Europe.
- **Deepening AI Cloud**: Continuing to build out its Crusoe Cloud platform with managed services (Kubernetes, Slurm, AutoClusters) to make it easier for AI companies to use their infrastructure.
- **Responsible AI**: Emphasizing sustainability and responsible AI governance, as evidenced by achieving ISO 42001 certification and publishing an ESG report.
- **Acquisition-led Growth**: Acquired Atero (GPU memory optimization) to enhance its core technology stack.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The company is united by a tangible mission: "Accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence." Employees report high levels of engagement (92% proud to work there per internal survey).
- **Massive Growth Trajectory**: Crusoe is at the center of the AI infrastructure boom, building some of the world's most powerful AI factories. For job seekers, this means exposure to cutting-edge technology and the opportunity to scale a company from a startup to an industry leader.
- **Culture**: The company values "moving fast and making things," continuous learning, and collective genius. It describes itself as an "AI factory company" that values velocity and impact.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid/Office presence required in most roles. Office locations include: Denver (HQ), San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Bellevue, Tulsa, Dublin (Ireland), and Tel Aviv (Israel).
- **Benefits**: Competitive compensation & equity, comprehensive health & wellness, mental health resources, retirement plans, paid time off, leave of absence programs, learning & development, volunteer time off, daily meals allowance, and other location-specific perks.
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on technical excellence, working with large-scale systems, and pioneering new approaches to energy and infrastructure. The company values candidates' "AI fluency" in its hiring process.

## Sources
1. [crusoe.ai](https://www.crusoe.ai/)
2. [crusoe.ai/careers](https://www.crusoe.ai/about/careers)
3. [crusoe.ai/about/culture](https://www.crusoe.ai/about/careers/culture)
4. [crusoe.ai/about/company](https://www.crusoe.ai/about/company)

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