Director, Memphis Power Plant Operations

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for a gas turbine power plant, including 24/7 operations, maintenance, commissioning, construction, and capacity expansion.
• Own reliable, available, high-quality, and redundant electrical power delivery to data center sites.
• Lead operators, maintenance technicians, engineers, contractors, and support staff in a 24/7 operations and construction environment.
• Oversee plant performance, commissioning, testing, and integration with data center electrical infrastructure and load.
• Develop operations and maintenance strategies covering preventive and predictive maintenance, outage planning, hot gas path management, and OEM coordination.
• Manage construction, equipment installation, civil works, and phased expansions while maintaining safe operation.
• Ensure compliance with air permits, emissions controls, TDEC, EPA, OSHA, and local regulatory requirements.
• Partner with data center operations, engineering, fuel suppliers, OEMs, utilities, and regulatory agencies.
• Manage operating budgets, fuel, O&M, capital projects, and annual operating plans.
• Improve plant availability, heat rate, emissions, cost, safety metrics, and operational processes.
• Recruit, develop, coach, and retain talent while managing staffing, resources, and contractors.
• Serve as site leader and representative to the Memphis community, regulators, and stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, or another engineering discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in power generation operations, plant management, or related industrial or aerospace operations.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing operators, technicians, and engineers.
• Experience operating or managing simple-cycle or combined-cycle gas turbine power plants.
• Experience with high-voltage electrical systems, generators, switchgear, protection, and industrial or data center interconnection.
• Ability to support operations and construction outside normal business hours, including nights, weekends, and on-call response.
• Ability to walk the plant site, access equipment, and work in industrial and outdoor environments.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience managing 100 MW+ gas turbine facilities and high-availability critical power applications.
• Experience with plant construction, commissioning, start-up, and concurrent operations and expansion.
• Knowledge of aeroderivative and heavy-duty gas turbines, performance optimization, emissions controls, and balance-of-plant systems.
• Understanding of environmental permitting, air quality compliance, and combustion-turbine regulatory reporting.
• Experience managing budgets, fuel costs, contractors, and complex stakeholders.
• Strong communication, leadership, interpersonal, and operational improvement skills.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, high-growth environments with aggressive timelines and changing priorities.

Compensation and Benefits

• Extended hours may be required to support plant reliability and construction milestones.