Onsite Senior Data Center Ops Leader

IREN; Sweetwater (TX); On-site; USD 174,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

IREN is a leading AI Cloud Service Provider delivering large-scale GPU clusters for AI training and inference. The Senior Operations Manager will lead a large-scale data center campus, guiding electrical, mechanical, HVAC, and facilities trades while partnering with engineering, construction, and trusted contractors to ensure uptime and operational excellence.

With 5+ years of leadership in mission-critical environments, you will drive safety, compliance with NFPA 70E and OSHA requirements,

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent; technical degree preferred.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in critical infrastructure operations (data centers, substations, industrial power, manufacturing, or similar environments).
• Minimum 5 years of leadership experience managing multi-disciplinary operations teams in a mission-critical data center or critical infrastructure environment supporting 24/7 operations and uptime expectations.
• Strong understanding of electrical safety practices, including LOTO and energized work controls.
• Ability to plan and execute complex work in a high-risk, uptime-critical environment.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to lead in the field and provide clear executive-level updates.
• Proven experience supporting MV/HV power systems (switchgear, breakers, transformers, substations) and coordinating switching, cutovers, and energization activities preferred.
• Demonstrated expertise in NFPA 70E, LOTO control, and high-risk work planning with working knowledge of OSHA requirements preferred.
• Experience driving high-quality PM/CM programs, backlog management, work order verification, and asset reliability improvements using a CMMS preferred.
• Working knowledge of BMS, EPMS, SCADA, or DCIM monitoring platforms, including alarm response workflows and performance trending preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and model a zero-compromise safety culture across all operations and contractor activities, ensuring compliance with site and regulatory requirements including OSHA 1910.269, NFPA 70E, LOTO, energized work controls, and permitting processes.
• Enforce and continuously improve safe work practices such as job briefings and pre-task planning, switching orders and LOTO verification, arc-flash and shock boundary compliance, and contractor safety onboarding, audits, and field coaching.
• Maintain operational excellence across critical infrastructure systems including high-voltage substations and distribution (e.g., 138kV/345kV, transformers, breakers, ring-bus systems), UPS systems, generators, ATS/STS, switchgear, power monitoring, and mechanical/HVAC systems including cooling plants and advanced or liquid-to-chip cooling.
• Support site reliability by ensuring systems operate within design limits, alarm response standards, and maintenance expectations, and by leading coordinated responses to abnormal events such as alarms, equipment trips, and system failures with calm urgency and sound decision-making.
• Own site maintenance performance and execution quality, including preventive maintenance planning and verification, corrective maintenance prioritization and closeout, work order quality and documentation standards, and field readiness and verification audits.
• Lead, develop, and support a multi-trade operations workforce providing 24/7 coverage by setting clear expectations, reinforcing accountability, delivering consistent coaching, and managing performance.
• Foster a professional operations culture grounded in respect, integrity, teamwork, and high standards of execution.
• Manage relationships with key contractors and service partners by defining scope, coordinating schedules, enforcing safety and quality standards, reviewing proposals and quotes, and validating completed work.
• Partner with Engineering and Construction teams to support energization, commissioning, cutovers, and expansion milestones while ensuring operational readiness through validation of documentation.
• Maintain accurate operational documentation and field controls, including switching procedures, LOTO plans, permits, authorization workflows, underground utility coordination and excavation permitting (as applicable), equipment logs, oil/DGA sampling, and incident follow-ups.
• The duties and responsibilities listed above are not intended to be all-inclusive and may be modified, expanded, or reassigned as necessary to meet business needs.

Skills

Leadership

Safety leadership

Electrical safety

Communication

CMMS experience

SCADA familiarity

NFPA 70E

PM/CM programs

Field leadership

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Technical degree preferred

Tools

CMMS

SCADA

EPMS

Job description

IREN is a leading AI Cloud Service Provider delivering large-scale GPU clusters for AI training and inference. The Senior Operations Manager will lead a large-scale data center campus, guiding electrical, mechanical, HVAC, and facilities trades while partnering with engineering, construction, and trusted contractors to ensure uptime and operational excellence.

With 5+ years of leadership in mission-critical environments, you will drive safety, compliance with NFPA 70E and OSHA requirements,