Sr. Manager, Power Plant Operations - Memphis

The role

This person leads the operations, maintenance, commissioning and expansion of a gas turbine power plant in Memphis. The plant supplies reliable electrical power to the Colossus data center campus, and the role manages a team of operators, technicians and engineers.

What you will do

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for the Memphis gas turbine power plant, including 24/7 operations, maintenance, commissioning and ongoing construction and capacity expansion
• Own end-to-end delivery of electrical power to the Colossus data center sites, ensuring reliability, availability, power quality and redundancy
• Lead multidisciplinary teams of operators, maintenance technicians, engineers, contractors and support staff
• Oversee plant performance, commissioning, testing and integration with data center electrical infrastructure and load
• Develop and execute operations and maintenance strategies, including preventative and predictive maintenance, outage planning, hot gas path management and OEM coordination
• Manage concurrent construction, equipment installation, civil works and phased capacity expansions while keeping the existing plant safe and reliable
• Ensure compliance with environmental, safety and regulatory requirements, including air permits, emissions controls, TDEC, EPA, OSHA and local authorities
• Partner with data center operations, engineering, fuel suppliers, OEMs, utilities and regulatory agencies
• Formulate and execute operating budgets, fuel management, O&M, capital projects and annual operating plans
• Drive continuous improvement in plant availability, heat rate, emissions, cost and safety metrics

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 8+ years of experience in power generation operations, plant management, or industrial or aerospace operations
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing teams of operators, technicians and engineers
• Experience operating or managing gas turbine power plants (simple cycle or combined cycle)
• Ability to support plant operations and construction outside normal business hours, including nights, weekends and on-call response
• Must be based at the Memphis/Southaven site
• General physical fitness; ability to walk the plant site, access equipment and work in industrial and outdoor environments (heat, noise)

Nice to have

• Experience managing large-scale gas turbine facilities (100 MW+), preferably with high-availability critical power applications
• Track record of achieving and sustaining high plant availability, reliability and low forced outage rates
• Hands-on experience with plant construction, commissioning, start-up and concurrent operations and expansion
• Deep knowledge of gas turbine technology, performance optimization, emissions controls (SCR) and balance of plant systems
• Experience with high-voltage electrical systems, generators, switchgear, protection and data center or industrial interconnection
• Understanding of environmental permitting, air quality compliance and regulatory reporting for combustion turbines
• Experience managing budgets, fuel costs, contractors and complex stakeholder relationships
• Excellent oral and written communication, leadership and interpersonal skills

Before you apply

• Must be based at the Memphis/Southaven site

About the company

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. The team works across Colossus supercomputers, Grok models and applications including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice and X.