Director, Fleet Operations & Standardization

CareerNerds, LLC; Victorville (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

CareerNerds, LLC is seeking a Director of Operations to stand up and scale centralized fleet-wide operations across multiple sites. You’ll standardize operating models, integrate new assets, and drive safe, reliable, and cost-effective performance while partnering with Finance, Asset Management, and HR to ensure sustainable growth.

You will lead the development of uniform procedures, KPIs, and governance, while building leadership capabilities and succession plans for key roles.

Qualifications

• Education: BS in engineering or equivalent; substitutions allowed year-for-year.
• Experience: 10+ years in power generation operations and maintenance with multi-site leadership.
• Plant leadership: 3+ years as Plant Manager with accountability for safety, availability, budget, and compliance.
• Licenses/Certifications: valid driver’s license.
• Other: strong analytical and business-case skills; excellent written and verbal communication; ability to influence without authority and lead across functions.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Collaborate on 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.
• Develop and execute vendor/contract strategy to optimize cost and performance.
• Identify and mitigate operational risks, including safety, environmental, reliability, and supply chain vulnerabilities; ensure corrective actions are closed.
• Support M&A and growth: due diligence, integration planning, and stand-up of new sites; lead post-close integration.
• Enable multi-technology execution across the fleet with adaptable operating standards.
• Build and sustain a high-performance culture; coach Plant Managers and drive succession planning.

Skills

Leadership

Operations management

Strategic planning

Safety culture

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

CareerNerds, LLC is seeking a Director of Operations to stand up and scale centralized fleet-wide operations across multiple sites. You’ll standardize operating models, integrate new assets, and drive safe, reliable, and cost-effective performance while partnering with Finance, Asset Management, and HR to ensure sustainable growth.

You will lead the development of uniform procedures, KPIs, and governance, while building leadership capabilities and succession plans for key roles.