Fleet Operations Director: Standardize & Scale Growth

Food Management Search, Inc.; Victorville (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Food Management Search, Inc. is seeking a Director of Operations to design and scale centralized fleet-wide operating standards and management systems across multiple sites. You will lead cross-functional efforts to absorb acquisitions, standardize procedures, and drive safety, reliability, and cost efficiency.

The role requires 10+ years in power generation operations, 3+ years as Plant Manager, and a strong ability to translate operational drivers into production economics.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor of Science degree in engineering or equivalent from an accredited college or university recognized by the United States Department of Education (or equivalent).
• Experience: 10+ years in power generation operations and maintenance, including multi-site leadership responsibilities.
• Plant leadership: 3+ years as a Plant Manager or equivalent leadership role with direct accountability for safety, availability, budget, and compliance outcomes.
• 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 (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, critical spares, and service providers) to optimize cost and performance.
• Identify and mitigate operational risks, including safety, environmental, reliability, cyber/OT resilience, and supply chain vulnerabilities; ensure corrective actions are closed effectively.
• Support M&A and growth: participate in operational due diligence, integration planning, and stand-up of new sites; lead post-close integration of people, processes, systems, and standards.
• Enable multi-technology execution across the fleet; adapt operating standards and capabilities as new generation technologies and development projects are introduced.
• Build and sustain a high-performance culture: set expectations, reinforce accountability, recognize performance, and lead change across a multi-site organization.
• People development: coach and develop Plant Managers and their teams; build bench strength, succession plans, and scalable training programs; recruit and retain top talent.
• Collaborate horizontally with Environmental, H&S, HR, Engineering, Development, and Asset Management to align goals, remove blockers, and execute cross-functional initiatives.
• Communicate directives and changes effectively at all levels; lead change management efforts to ensure adoption and sustained performance improvements.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical skills

Communication

Influence without authority

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering or equivalent

Job description

Food Management Search, Inc. is seeking a Director of Operations to design and scale centralized fleet-wide operating standards and management systems across multiple sites. You will lead cross-functional efforts to absorb acquisitions, standardize procedures, and drive safety, reliability, and cost efficiency.

The role requires 10+ years in power generation operations, 3+ years as Plant Manager, and a strong ability to translate operational drivers into production economics.