Director Of Operations

Director Of Operations Network Active Victorville, CA WA12-2759244 Shared to Network: 10/28/2026 by David Wood Shared to TEN Feed: 10/28/2026 by David Wood Last Modified: 10/28/2026 by David Wood Work Job David Wood View email address on knowhirematch.com View phone number on knowhirematch.com View phone number on knowhirematch.com 3645 Candidates 3 Jobs 127 Placements Experience: 10+ years in power generation operations and maintenance, including multi-site leadership responsibilities. Looking for a "Leader of Leaders". Need strong people skills. Summary Reporting to the Vice President of Operations, the Director of Operations is a builder-leader responsible for standing up and scaling centralized, fleet-wide operations functions across a multi-site, historically autonomous generation portfolio. This role will design and implement uniform operating standards, management systems, and performance cadences; integrate newly acquired assets and teams; and partner with multiple departments to deliver safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations and scalable systems that can absorb growth. First 12–24 Months: Primary Mandate

• Assess current-state site practices, capabilities, and performance across the fleet; identify gaps, risks, and immediate improvement opportunities.
• Design and deploy a centralized operations model that enables consistent execution without undermining local accountability.
• Consolidate and standardize disparate site-level operating practices into a single fleet-wide operating model, procedures, and management system.
• Standardize core O&M processes (work management, outage planning, reliability programs, operating/maintenance procedures, KPIs, reporting) into a single fleet-wide program.
• Build a performance management cadence (daily/weekly/monthly rhythms) aligned to safety, availability, heat rate/efficiency, cost, compliance, and capital deployment.
• Develop the Plant Manager group and align leadership expectations; establish talent development plans and succession coverage for key roles.
• Create an integration playbook to onboard future acquisitions/new sites into MRP standards and systems quickly and safely.

• Drive operational excellence: safety performance, regulatory compliance, reliability/availability, efficiency, and cost competitiveness.
• Partner with Asset Management and Finance to translate operational drivers into production economics and capital allocation trade-offs (availability, forced outage drivers, O&M cost drivers, lifecycle cost, and risk).
• Collaborate on the development of fleet metrics and reporting; establish uniform definitions, dashboards, and root-cause/problem-solving routines.
• Lead annual and multi-year planning cycles (O&M budgets, outage plans, capital plans); ensure disciplined execution and variance management.
• Develop and execute vendor/contract strategy (major maintenance vendors, OEM/LTSA relationships,