Operational Readiness Leader

Hatch Ltd.; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Hatch Ltd. in Salt Lake City, UT, seeks an Operational Readiness Leader with 15+ years of experience to guide safety culture, readiness strategies, and ramp-up activities for large, complex projects.

You will lead cross-functional teams across site management, maintenance, and commissioning, collaborating with owners and EPCM stakeholders to ensure safe, high-quality, on-time delivery. The role requires exceptional leadership, strategic planning, and the ability to drive continuous improvement

Qualifications

• 15+ years in operation excellence and readiness program delivery.
• Cross-functional experience across site management, production, maintenance, health, safety, environment and community.
• Proven success in client engagement and business development.
• Deep experience in Metals, Energy or Infrastructure sectors.

Responsibilities

• Role model safety culture and collaborative leadership across projects.
• Develop and implement operations readiness strategies for large, complex projects.
• Oversee planning, scheduling and resource allocation to sustain operations.
• Liaise with senior stakeholders during planning to ensure alignment.
• Lead site operations readiness teams to deliver safe, quality, timely results.
• Mentor and coach emerging operations readiness managers and teams.
• Travel to remote sites as required, including fly-in/fly-out assignments.
• Translate readiness requirements into opportunities during ramp-up and startup.

Skills

Strategic planning

Site execution leadership

Leadership & communication

Stakeholder management

Job description

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Operational Readiness Leader

Location: Salt Lake City, UT, US

Key Responsibilities

• Role model, safety culture, Collaborative leadership, and behaviors.
• Develop and implement operations and operations readiness strategies and lead operations readiness planning for large, complex projects.
• Oversee planning, scheduling, and resource allocation across project phases to sustaining operations.
• Liaise with senior EPCM and commissioning stakeholders during project planning phases to ensure interfacing and alignment.
• Lead site operations readiness integrated team, ensuring safe, quality, and timely delivery.
• Advise, guide and support the owner team, operation and functional teams, operations readiness management team and other internal and external stakeholders with delivering safe and effective operations readiness programs.
• Travel to remote sites when required, including fly-in/fly-out assignments.
• Translate operations readiness execution requirements and learnings into operational support opportunities during ramp up and post project start up.

Client Engagement & Growth

• Build strong client relationships and identify opportunities to unlock CORE services.
• Act as a trusted advisor, elevating conversations beyond execution to strategic value.

Leadership & Workforce Development

• Mentor and coach emerging operations readiness managers, fostering a culture of safety, professional growth and excellence.
• Work seamlessly across borders in a flat, connected organization aligned with Hatch’s values.
• In collaboration with Hatch’s Global Director of Operations Readiness, bring best practices and drive innovation in operations readiness practices and improve processes for better client outcomes.

Attributes

• Safety-conscious and ethical.
• Collaborative, committed to long‑term success—not transactional.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with ambition to grow into influential leadership roles.
• Client relationship, communication and team building acumen.
• Ability to interact and connect with all levels (top leadership and working levels). Ability to identify business opportunities for CORE Commissioning but also for all other services of Hatch.
• Competent technical communicator and able to adapt to the audience (empathy)facility to adapt script to the context of the audience and to simplify the messaging when required.
• To provide governance and support on projects where CORE services are used, even when the CORE services are not provided by CORE members.
• Collaborate on exciting projects to develop innovative solutions

Experience

• 15+ years in operation excellence, operational readiness program delivery, with proven leadership with additional consideration given to past experience on mega projects (>$1B).
• Cross-functional experience and exposure to a variety of roles and responsibilities within operations (site management, production, maintenance, health, safety, environment and community, warehouse and inventory management, etc).
• Proven experience in building practices focused on operational improvement, operations readiness, commissioning, and ramp up.
• Demonstrated success in client engagement and business development.
• Deep experience in one of our three (3) main sectors:
  • Metals (from mining to minerals processing, to metallurgy (pyro & hydro)
  • Energy (Nuclear Power, Hydro Power, Thermal Power, Renewable Power, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, Oil & Gas)
  • Infrastructure (Water, Transit, Rails, Ports & Terminals, Aviation, etc.)
• Skills:
  • Strategic planning and site execution leadership and management expertise.
  • Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to manage complexity and deliver under pressure.

Don't meet every single requirement? You don't need to. At Hatch, we are building a diverse, inclusive workplace that fosters innovation.

We're committed to fostering a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate and serve. Hatch is an Equal Opportunity Employer that considers applicants without regard to age, race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, veteran, or any other protected status. If you have any accommodation requirements, please let us know. We'll do our best to meet your needs in accordance with applicable local legislation.