Manager, Operation & Maintenance (Power Plant) - Memphis

The role

You will lead the operation and maintenance organization for an on-site power plant that supplies power to AI supercomputing facilities in the Memphis and Southaven area. You will oversee supervisors, leads and technicians across plant, process and electrical crafts, and own the maintenance program and plant reliability.

What you will do

• Own operation and maintenance of the power plant, including gas turbines, generators, balance-of-plant, fuel gas, process and fluid systems, and plant electrical systems
• Lead supervisors, leads and technicians as one O&M organization
• Set daily and weekly priorities for maintenance, emergent work, alarms, trips and outages
• Own the maintenance program: planning, scheduling, procedures, CMMS discipline, spare parts and documentation
• Direct start-up, shutdown, switching, isolation, LOTO and restoration
• Enforce safety standards including LOTO, NFPA 70E / arc-flash, confined space and hot work
• Lead outage planning and execution with engineering, OEMs and contractors
• Own O&M vendor and contractor performance, cost and schedule
• Drive reliability through bad-actor elimination, root-cause investigations and uptime standards
• Coach and develop supervisors and leads, and report plant status and resource needs to site leadership

Required qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalency certificate
• 6+ years of experience in a power plant or other high-reliability industrial operations and maintenance setting
• 2+ years directly managing supervisors, leads or a multi-discipline technician organization
• Willingness to perform hands-on work in all environments (heat, cold, rain), in tight quarters or at heights
• Ability to work extended hours, nights, weekends and on-call
• Remain focused in hazardous environments while wearing appropriate PPE
• Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs unassisted
• Lifting, standing, climbing, bending, grasping, sitting, pulling, pushing, stooping, stretching and carrying are generally required

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in a technical, engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience operating or maintaining gas turbine generation and balance-of-plant systems
• Experience leading a mixed-discipline O&M team in a generating station or similar facility
• Working knowledge of P&IDs, single-line diagrams, electrical schematics, switching, LOTO and NFPA 70E / arc-flash practices
• Experience running a CMMS-based maintenance program, including outage execution
• Experience managing O&M budgets, OEM service agreements and third-party contractors
• Track record of reliability improvement and root-cause investigations
• Ability to develop supervisors and leads while staying close to the work
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Before you apply

• Must be able to work on-site at the power generation facility

About the company

SpaceX was founded to make life multiplanetary. SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence, including Colossus supercomputers, Grok models and applications such as Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice and X.