# Iron Worker (Construction)

**Company**: SpaceXAI
**Location**: Southaven, MS
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

SpaceXAI is seeking a skilled Iron Worker to support the buildout of high-performance data centers and AI supercomputing campuses. In this hands-on role, you will erect structural steel, miscellaneous metals, and equipment supports.

Responsibilities:

- Erect structural steel for supercomputer halls, mechanical plants, substations, cooling yards, and site buildings.

- Install miscellaneous metals: stairs, ladders, platforms, catwalks, grating, handrail, embeds, and equipment frames.

- Fabricate and install pipe racks, aerial galleries, mezzanines, and support steel for chilled-water piping, cable tray, busway, and liquid-cooling distribution.

- Rig, hoist, and set structural members and heavy equipment-support steel using cranes, come-alongs, chain falls, and approved lifting gear.

- Bolt, torque, weld, and plumb connections to drawings, AISC and AWS standards, and inspection requirements.

- Read structural drawings, erection plans, and shop drawings; lay out from control, check elevations and plumb, and report conflicts.

- Coordinate with civil, mechanical, and electrical crews.

- Follow fall protection, crane, rigging, hot-work, LOTO, PPE, and permit rules.

- Support inspection, punch-list, and turnover work.

Basic Qualifications:

- 3+ years of ironworking experience on commercial, industrial, or heavy-civil structural steel.

- Ability to read structural and erection drawings and work to AISC connection details.

- Hands-on proficiency with structural bolt-up, cutting, and safe use of aerial lifts, ladders, and material-handling equipment.

- Willingness to work at heights, outdoors, and on a changing construction site.

- Strong safety mindset with current OSHA 10 or equivalent training.

- Willingness to work extended hours, nights, and weekends during critical construction windows.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

- Journey-level ironworker experience and/or completion of an ironworker apprenticeship.

- AWS D1.1 structural welding certification.

- Qualified rigger and/or signal person; NCCCO or equivalent crane, rigger, or signal certification.

- OSHA 30 and/or fall-protection competent person.

- Prior experience on hyperscale data center, power plant, industrial, or other mission-critical steel.

- Experience with pipe rack, equipment support steel, and miscellaneous metals.

- High school diploma or equivalency certificate.

Additional Requirements:

- Ability to travel extensively to SpaceXAI construction sites and remain onsite during peak construction phases.

- Capability to work in industrial environments, climb ladders and structural steel, lift moderate to heavy loads, stand and walk for a full shift, and wear PPE for extended periods.

- Ability to work at elevation in varying weather, around cranes and heavy equipment, and in active construction yards.

## Skills

### Required
- structural steel erection
- miscellaneous metals installation
- pipe rack fabrication
- crane operation
- safety protocols

### Nice to have
- AWS D1.1 structural welding certification
- NCCCO crane certification
- OSHA 30
- fall-protection competent person
- hyperscale data center experience

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