Onsite Energy Generation Manager

Digital Realty; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Realty seeks an Onsite Energy Generation Manager to lead end-to-end energy projects across AMER, coordinating design, construction, and operation. The role requires managing external consultants and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable generation assets.

Travel up to 25% and strong regulatory knowledge are essential. The candidate should have 5+ years in energy projects, experience with natural gas and other generation tech, and a Bachelor’s degree in engineering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• 5+ years in energy generation or large infrastructure project management.
• Experience with natural gas-fired and fuel cell systems.
• PMP certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end lifecycle of on-site energy generation projects.
• Manage external consultants, owner’s engineers, and owner’s representatives.
• Support technology selection, vendor evaluation, and risk assessments.
• Coordinate with internal design, engineering, and construction teams.
• Negotiate major equipment and long-lead agreements.
• Provide executive-level reporting on progress, risks, and financials.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

Skills

Project management

Energy generation

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Vendor management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

PSCAD

Job description

Job Description

Position: Onsite Energy Generation Manager

Location: Hybrid: Dallas, Austin, Houston. Ashburn, Boston, Chicago, NYC, or Atlanta

About The Role

Sitting within the wider Global Design, Engineering & Construction (DE&C) function, the Onsite Energy Generation Manager supports the onsite energy generation projects across the AMER region. This role will serve as project owner for delivering scalable, reliable generation assets. They will oversee and manage the design and delivery of the onsite power generation portion of campus execution in partnership with the DE&C Design, Construction, and Real Estate Development Managers. This individual participates in the full lifecycle of a project.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the execution of the end-to-end lifecycle of on-site energy generation projects, from design through commissioning and handoff.
• Manage external consultants, owner’s engineers, and owner’s representatives throughout the life of the project.
• Support technology selection, commercial structuring, vendor evaluation, and risk assessments for natural gas and alternative generation technologies.
• Provide feedback and lessons learned into program governance, standards, performance metrics, and technical requirements for the execution of on-site energy generation projects.
• Work with internal design, engineering, and construction teams to execute power generation projects.
• Foster relationships with key industry partners like EPC providers and technical consultants.
• Partner with the energy, supply chain and commercial teams to negotiate major equipment, EPC, and long-lead agreements.
• Coordinate with environmental, permitting, and regulatory teams to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local requirements.
• Drive cross-functional alignment with Operations to ensure maintainability, reliability, and long-term asset performance.
• Provide executive-level reporting on program progress, risks, financials, and strategic direction.
• Ensure the DLR design and reliability requirements are delivered
• Continually lives and promotes Digital Realty’s core values
• Attends all necessary internal reporting/steering meetings

What You’ll Need

• 5+ years of experience in the project management of energy generation, distributed energy resources, utility‑scale power, or large‑scale industrial infrastructure projects.
• Develop and maintain integrated project schedules, stakeholder engagement plans, risk registers, action‑item logs, and budget tracking tools to support project execution and provide visibility into project milestones, risks, cost performance, and key decisions.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing complex generation programs, including natural gas‑fired (a must) and fuel cell systems; exposure to nuclear or advanced energy technologies (a plus).
• Familiarity with Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS).
• Firm understanding of utility regulations, and modeling such as Power Systems Computer Aided Design (PSCAD).
• Strong understanding of EPC delivery models, OEM ecosystem, fuel supply considerations, and long‑lead equipment procurement.
• Proven ability to lead multi‑disciplinary teams and manage large capital programs.
• Expertise with permitting, environmental compliance, interconnection considerations, and regulatory frameworks.
• Excellent executive communication, program governance, and vendor management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, energy systems, construction management or related field.
• Ability to travel to site projects up to 25% of the time to oversee progress
• PMP certification, a plus

A Bit About Us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

What We Can Offer You

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Health and Safety

Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.

Compensation range $140,000 – $160,000. This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary for this position at the time of this posting.

Benefits: For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.