Job Description
Client has 17 AI Factory deployments starting between September 2026 and February 2027, across Roche in Amsterdam and Phoenix, Groq in Houston, and Sharon AI in Australia and New Zealand. Seven of them start in December. On our first program at this scale we did not have enough experienced Clients people on site at kickoff, and it cost us time and rework. The fix, approved by our EVP of Technical Delivery & Engineering, is a Tiger Team: one person each from PMO, Architecture and Field Services, plus a Logistics lead from Supply Chain. They land about a week before a build starts, get governance and reporting running, train the site crew by hand against our standard curriculum, confirm the crew absorbed it, and hand off to the permanent delivery team around two weeks in. Then they move to the next site. The permanent project team is on the ground with them from day one, so the customer builds its relationship with the people who are staying.
What the role does
This is the PMO seat on the Tiger Team. You own governance and reporting for the first two weeks of every new AI Factory deployment. You arrive before build starts, get the program controls running before anyone touches hardware, teach the PMO part of the curriculum to the incoming project team, and hand a working governance structure to the permanent program manager at the two-week mark. It is a working role, not an oversight role. We want someone who has personally run the messy first weeks of large on-site builds, has trained project staff by doing the work next to them, and can set expectations with senior PMs, customer stakeholders and partner leads on day one.
Key responsibilities
Before the build starts
- Stand up the governance and reporting structure before build starts: daily reporting, gate evidence, RAID and decision logs, escalation paths, and the tracking that feeds the AI Factory tool.
- Roll out Clients's standard SOPs and receiving standards the same way at every site. Nothing gets improvised locally.
- Open the DOA, RMA and expedite registers with the Logistics lead so material problems are visible and worked from day one.
Qualifications
Required
